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February 17, 2022 Meetup

St. Louis Linux Users Group

Create a visually engaging technology collage with a gradient backdrop transitioning from deep blue to a lighter green. Place the logo of SUSE Liberty prominently in the top-center part of the image, slightly larger than the others. Arrange the logos of SUSE Rancher and SUSE Harvester around SUSE Liberty in a semi-circular format, with Rancher on the left and Harvester on the right. Include the Kubernetes logo at the bottom center. Connect the logos subtly with thin, glowing lines indicating integration. Each logo has a light aura around it for a glowing effect. Sprinkle faint server stacks and container icons in the background for additional context.

SUSE Rancher, Harvester, Liberty, and more!

Presented By: Michael Carrington

SuSE Liberty is a 'replacement' for CentOS Linux.

CentOS was one of the most acclaimed distros for servers, and one that many companies adopted, a binary fork of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), from Red Hat (now owned by IBM), maintained by the community and free. But nevertheless, in an unexpected turn (by RedHat), everything was turned upside down, leaving a large gap that is now to be filled. (The CentOS that we knew is no more.) Liberty Linux from SUSE, is another of the alternatives that join projects like AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, etc.

Liberty Linux is a product that is being developed by SUSE with its own Open Build Service tool, from the binary packages Official Red Hat RPMs (SRPMs). In the case of the kernel, the RHEL kernel will not be used, rather it is based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) kernel, but compiled using a configuration to maintain compatibility for RHEL/CentOS.

SUSE Rancher is a container management platform that provides full management of all your Kubernetes distributions, whether you're managing one or one ... SUSE Rancher addresses the needs of DevOps teams deploying apps.

The difference between Kubernetes and Rancher is:

Kubernetes is a technology for managing containers organized under a cluster of virtual or physical machines.

Rancher is a technology for managing Kubernetes clusters en masse. Harvester= Open, interoperable hyperconverged infrastructure HCI

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) doesn’t need to be expensive or complex and with Harvester it’s not. Harvester presents organizations with a modern HCI solution that is feature-full and purpose built for cloud-native environments. Consolidate your virtual machine workloads and Kubernetes clusters with Harvester.

Designed by the SUSE Rancher engineering team, Harvester is built on Kubernetes and utilizes the latest cloud-native solutions

Harvester has two modes of operation:

HCI, where it can attach to another cluster as a VM hosting node or a Helm application deployed into an existing Kubernetes cluster.

suse kubernetes automation

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@LinuxLad • 8h ago

📅 Mark your calendars! Join us on 2022-02-17 for an insightful presentation by Michael Carrington on SUSE Rancher, Harvester, and Liberty Linux. Discover the future of server and container management! 🌐 #SLUUG #Kubernetes #Linux https://www.meetup.com/saint-louis-unix-users-group/events/280493581/

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At 6:00p.m. Central Time the meeting opens. Participants are encouraged to join at this time to if they need to test their microphone, screen sharing, and video camera.

At 6:30p.m. Central Time we attempt a quick welcome, introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP (Questions and Answers) segment.

At 6:45p.m. Central Time the presentation begins.