SUSE recently announced updates to SUSE CaaS Platform 4 and SUSE Cloud Application Platform 1.5 which help customers accelerate production of modern containerized and cloud native applications.
The enhanced solutions advances the features offered to application developers, DevOps teams and Kubernetes platform operators. SUSE now provides enterprises with advanced networking for Kubernetes based on the Cilium open source project. Leveraging Cilium, SUSE enables Kubernetes users to strengthen application security at scale with high-performance packet filtering and network communication security policies that are easy to implement and control.
SUSE also introduces new application discovery and deployment capabilities that allow users to quickly and easily deploy applications and services that have been published as Helm charts, including hundreds of popular open-source DevOps tools and ISV solutions as well as internally developed applications and services.
“SUSE’s modern application delivery solutions are easy for development and DevOps teams to use and for IT to operate,” said Thomas Di Giacomo, SUSE president of Engineering, Product and Innovation. “Our support of Cilium-based networking puts our customers ahead of those using other commercially supported Kubernetes solutions and is an example of how we’re powering digital transformation with agile open source solutions that enable enterprises to continually innovate, compete and grow.”
Thomas Graf, CTO and co-founder of Isovalent and founder of Cilium, said, “SUSE was very early in recognizing the value that BPF and Cilium bring to updating Kubernetes networking and security for the age of highly dynamic, API-driven microservices. SUSE has been a valuable contributor to the Cilium open source community since before the 1.0 release, and we are excited to have them as the first enterprise-grade Kubernetes distribution to use Cilium as the default networking and security technology.”
SUSE application delivery solutions include SUSE CaaS Platform, an enterprise-ready container management solution based on Kubernetes, and SUSE Cloud Application Platform, which runs on top of Kubernetes and helps enterprises achieve their cloud-native application delivery goals more quickly and cost-effectively. DevOps teams can take advantage of the former to manage a wide range of workloads, including traditional, transitional and cloud-native workloads. The latter solution adds ready-made workflow automation that enables DevOps teams to deliver cloud native applications rapidly, at scale and in multi-cloud environments.
SUSE CaaS Platform 4
The newest release of SUSE’s Kubernetes-based container management platform, SUSE CaaS Platform 4 elevates Kubernetes platform operations with enhancements that strengthen application security, make it easier to keep pace with technology advancements and expand platform scalability options. The solution integrates the latest releases of Kubernetes and SUSE Linux Enterprise.
Florian Rommel, CTO and co-founder of cloud service provider Datalounges, said, “Datalounges has been using Kubernetes to deliver internally developed applications faster. We also provide hosted Kubernetes services to our customers. That all has translated into better business for us, but it wouldn’t have happened without SUSE CaaS Platform which makes it easy for us to install, manage and maintain our Kubernetes environments. The new advanced installation capabilities in SUSE CaaS Platform 4 will be especially valuable to us as we provision and de-provision many Kubernetes clusters every day. Cilium-based networking will make essential security management much simpler for us and for our customers.”
SUSE Cloud Application Platform 1.5
SUSE Cloud Application Platform 1.5, the latest version of SUSE’s modern application delivery platform for Kubernetes, reduces management complexity with new user interface enhancements. It also increases IT efficiency by providing a faster time to value with a simple and more predictable installation experience on hosted Kubernetes services.
SUSE CaaS Platform 4 and SUSE Cloud Application Platform 1.5 will be available within 30 days.
