SUSE has launched SUSE CaaS (container-as-a-service) Platform, a development and hosting platform for container-based applications and services. The solution is a significant piece of SUSE’s growing software-defined infrastructure portfolio, which integrates open source technology to drive next-generation innovations.
Organisations looking to improve business agility are going software-defined to support application containerisation. Most are either containerising existing applications directly or using a modern microservices architecture approach. SUSE CaaS Platform supports both tactics, helping customers be more agile and reduce operating costs.
“Container innovation is improving how applications are developed and run, but companies don’t want to have to set up and maintain a complex and secure container infrastructure by themselves,” said Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE CTO. “They want to focus on creating applications that bring value to their business. So SUSE is providing an easy-to-use container infrastructure solution that helps them deploy next-generation, cloud native container-based applications and progressively migrate traditional and existing apps.”
SUSE CaaS Platform consists of three key components – orchestration using Kubernetes, a purpose-built operating system (SUSE MicroOS) for microservices and containers, and configuration capabilities:
Reduced time to market using out-of-the-box platform capabilities. Customers can implement orchestration using production-grade Kubernetes, deploy resilient container services, maximise portability, and develop in a trusted computing environment.
Increased operational efficiency with automation of deployment management tasks and full application lifecycle support of containers. Functions include managing an on-premise registry, building container images, securely patching container images, collaboration and trusted images from the SUSE Registry.
Enablement of DevOps for improved application lifecycle management. It bridges development and operations using a single, unified container platform. It also makes it easy to deploy microservices and enables coexistence of configuration and code.
“SUSE envisions several key use cases for its CaaS platform, including the enablement of DevOps and microservices implementations for faster and more automated application releases across different infrastructure,” said Jay Lyman, Principal Analyst, Cloud Management and Containers, for 451 Research. “Organisations interested in enterprise-grade security, reliability and scalability with containers are the ones most likely to be interested in the SUSE CaaS Platform.”
Craig Parker, Head of Integrated Systems Business at Fujitsu in EMEIA, said, “As we endeavor to equip our customers with the latest in container innovations, SUSE’s Container as a Service Platform provides us with a strategic choice to adopt a modern container infrastructure solution while saving costs in building and maintaining a proprietary set of container tools. In addition, the integrated SUSE MicroOS and Kubernetes gives us a good option to run container-based applications on Fujitsu hardware and keep them up to date with minimal manual intervention.”
Will Ochandarena, Senior Director of Product Management at MapR Technologies, said, “Stateful application containers are a critical component of next-generation intelligent applications. The end-to-end container management provided by the SUSE CaaS Platform nicely complements the persistent data services provided by the MapR-XD Cloud-Scale Data Store to enable applications that operationalise data-driven insights in real-time.” MapR Technologies has a strong presence in the Asia Pacific region.
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