SUSE Container as a Service Platform

Flavio Castelli

Engineering Manager

fcastelli@suse.com

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SUSE CaaSP

Infrastructure (Hardware)

Container Runtime & Packaging

MicroOS – Container HostOS

SL

ES

Automation (salt + cloud-init)Configuration & Management of each node

Persistent Storage (local disk, NFS, SES) Networking Registry Security Logging

Orchestration (Kubernetes) Services (e.g. Deployment

Dashboard)

Container Container Container Container Container Container Container Container Container

What is SLE MicroOS?

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● Modern Linux Operating System designed for containers● Optimized for large deployments● Inherits the SLE knowledge while redefining the OS into a small, efficient and reliable

distribution

Key features of MicroOS

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● Designed to run Linux Containers and Kubernetes● Provides transactional and atomic updates● Leverages technologies like:

● Btrfs

● Traditional RPMs

● cloud-init

● salt

Key features for Kubernetes

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● Management UI: deploy cluster and maintain it● Follow upstream closely● Rolling updates● Kubernetes’ add-ons will be shipped later

Three views on CaaSP: Deployment, running apps, using apps

CaaSP Deployment

Adminnode

PXEDHCPSMT

PortusExternal Logging System

IT Ops/DevOps

Admin Dashboard

node node node

node node node

node node node

Kubernetes

SUSE CaaSP

SUSE RegistrySCC

Step 1: Install Admin nodeMicroOS 1 step installationCreates AutoYaST profileSets up Admin Dashboard

Step 2: Connect to Admin Dashboard using browser

Step 3: Deploy nodesUses AutoYaST profile

Step 4: Configure ClusterSet up kubernetes, etcd, flannel,...

Running Container

Dev/ DevOps

node node node

node node node

node node node

Private Registry

Git

CI

HA ProxyKubernetes

Kubernetes Dashboard / kubectl

SUSE RegistrySCC

Step 1: Push code to git

Step 2: Build container image(s)

Step 3: Run app on kubernetes cluster

Step 4: Ready for production

End user accessing apps

node node node

node node node

node node node

HA Proxy

www

Kubernetes

End user accesses applicationvia HA-proxy

CaaSP – Complete Picture

Adminnode

PXEDHCPSMT

PortusExternal Logging System

IT Ops/DevOps

Admin Dashboard

Dev/ DevOps

node node node

node node node

node node node

Private Registry

Git

CI

HA Proxy

www

Kubernetes

SUSE CaaSPKubernetes Dashboard /

kubectl

SUSE RegistrySCC

Call to action: release of SUSE CaaSP

SUSE CaaSP availability

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● Early access program: end of March 2017● First customer shipment: July 2017

Questions?

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