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By: Brent Smithurst

June 19, 2019 5:36 am

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Cloud native infrastructure, patterns, and technology

At the recent SUSECON conference in Nashville, Andreas Jaeger from SUSE discussed and demonstrated how cloud native technologies drive more and more applications - both in public cloud and in customer's data centers. Andreas looked at what "Cloud Native" is, what patterns are used to build and run cloud native applications, and how it […]

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June 18, 2019 5:42 am

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Stratos: A rich web based UI for managing and monitoring multi-cloud PaaS

At the recent SUSECON conference in Nashville, Neil MacDougall from SUSE introduced and demonstrated Stratos -- a web-based management application that is part of SUSE Cloud Application Platform. Stratos allows administrators and developers to monitor and manage SUSE Cloud Application Platform and the applications deployed to it. It supports management of multiple deployments of SUSE […]

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By: Brent Smithurst

June 17, 2019 4:32 pm

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A demo based introduction to SUSE Cloud Application Platform

At the recent SUSECON conference in Nashville, Peter Andersson and Peter Lunderbye from SUSE demonstrated SUSE Cloud Application Platform, including pushing your first app, buildpacks: what are they and how they can be utilised, scaling and how easy the platform makes it, and how to improve resiliency and availability of your app. SUSE has posted […]

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By: Brent Smithurst

June 5, 2019 12:04 am

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Using Eclipse as an IDE for SUSE Cloud Application Platform

At the recent SUSECON conference in Nashville, RahulKrishna Gupta from SUSE demonstrated how to integrate the Eclipse IDE with SUSE Cloud Application Platform, showing how to easily develop, test, and deploy applications to the platform directly from Eclipse. SUSE has posted all recorded talks from SUSECON on YouTube. Check them out if you want to […]

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By: Brent Smithurst

June 3, 2019 7:27 pm

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Geekos, Containers, and Clouds… Oh my! (Case Study of SUSE’s Integrated Stack)

At the recent SUSECON conference in Nashville, Rick Ashford and Nathan Nelson from SUSE demonstrated how the Global Sales Engineering team uses its geeko.land cloud to demonstrate the full stack solution of SUSE OpenStack Cloud, SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE CaaS Platform, and SUSE Cloud Application Platform, all fully integrated and working together. They provide […]

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By: Brent Smithurst

May 31, 2019 5:01 pm

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An Early Adopters Story about SUSE Cloud Application Platform

At the recent SUSECON conference in Nashville, Nicolas Christener and Lucas Bickel from our partner, Adfinis SyGroup AG, talked about their experience deploying and running SUSE Cloud Application Platform at the Swiss Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication. They talk about the journey from containers to Cloud Foundry and what Cloud Foundry offers […]

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By: Brent Smithurst

May 29, 2019 7:41 pm

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SUSECON Wrap-up: SUSE Cloud Application Platform

Now that SUSECON 2019 has wrapped up, I wanted to share all the information and articles related to SUSE Cloud Application Platform in one place. SUSECON was a really interesting conference, obviously focused on SUSE products and services, but also attended by partners, press, analysts, and customers. It was great to have so many substantive […]

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By: Brent Smithurst

May 28, 2019 1:26 am

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Developers Need More Than Just Kubernetes

  IT has been transforming amazingly quickly for the past few years, particularly with the rise of Docker and containers in general. As businesses begin to modernize their IT infrastructure and re-architect existing (or create new) applications using microservices, they are turning to containers, which are much smaller and more portable that virtual machines. […]

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By: Brent Smithurst

May 14, 2019 1:10 am

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Top 5 Reasons to Take the Cloud Foundry User Survey

It's that time of year again. Spring is in the air (for those of us in the northern hemisphere), the days are getting longer, and it's time for Cloud Foundry users to take the Cloud Foundry user survey that has just been extended to May 31. To get an idea of what kind of information […]

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