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Not sure about RancherOS and how much it factored into the sale. It could end up merged/transitioned into some Suse-container OS offering

The enterprise K8S business is compelling, especially all the shops using metal/on-prem. I settled on using Rancher and RKE for production clusters just because it was the simplest way to get HA clusters up within minutes without a PhD in K8S.

But I think a lot of the work they are doing on the other parts of K8S are really interesting: K3S, for example, could become very popular for running on IoT and ARM. K3S really put a smile on my face. You just run it and boom, you have a K8S cluster.




SUSE already has a container offering, CaaS Platform:

https://www.suse.com/products/caas-platform/

(Source: I worked on the documentation for v3.)

The partly-SUSE-sponsored openSUSE Project also has a container-centric distro, Kubic MicroOS:

https://kubic.opensuse.org/

So it is already active in this area, and yes, I agree, there's a good chance that RancherOS will end up merging or even replacing this.


K3S is nice but I have found microK8s to be even easier to get setup and configured for the IoT and small ARM server cluster scenarios.




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