INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
SUSE CAAS (CONTAINER AS A
SERVICE) PLATFORM MAKES
APPLICATIONS EASIER TO RUN
A new platform is part of SUSE’s growing software-defined
infrastructure portfolio, which integrates open source technology
to drive next-generation innovations that matter to customers
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USE® has launched the SUSE
CaaS (Container as a Service)
Platform, a development and
hosting platform for container-based
applications and services.
The solution is a valuable new piece
of SUSE’s growing software-defined
infrastructure portfolio, which integrates
open source technology to drive
next-generation innovations that
matter to customers.
SUSE CaaS Platform lets IT operations
and developers provision, manage and
scale container-based applications and
services to meet business goals faster.
Organisations looking to improve business
agility are adopting a software-defined
infrastructure approach to support
containerisation of their applications.
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.
The SUSE CaaS Platform underscores
an important turning point for container
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adoption – that the use of container
technology has spilled over from
the realm of casual developers into
enterprise-grade environments within
data centres. This places new demands
on management tools needed to
deploy and manage these container
environments efficiently.
“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 – that provide the following
benefits to customers and partners:
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Reduced time to market using
out-of-the-box platform capabilities
that enable customers to
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 using the built-in
container toolset. It provides
capabilities to manage on-premise
registry, build container images,
securely patch container images,
collaborate securely and use
trusted images from the
SUSE Registry.
Enablement of DevOps for improved
application lifecycle management.
It bridges developers and
operations using a single, unified
container platform that helps save
development and operations time.
It also makes it easy to deploy
microservices and enables co-
existence of configuration and code.
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