Ted Jones, Author at SUSE Communities

May 8, 2026 10:33 pm

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Breaking Free: A Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating from Red Hat OpenShift to SUSE Rancher Prime

The enterprise container market is hitting a turning point. For years, Red Hat OpenShift was the choice for organizations wanting an all-in-one Kubernetes platform. However, the tide has turned as businesses grow weary of rigid architectures and escalating licensing fees. The most frequent question I hear from teams today is: "How do we move […]

Categories: Cloud-native Transformation, Containers, DevOps, Digital Sovereignty, Digital Transformation, Kubernetes, Rancher Blog, Rancher Kubernetes, Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE), Rancher Lightweight Kubernetes (K3s), SUSE Blog, SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE Security, SUSE Storage

By: Ted Jones

February 7, 2026 5:46 pm

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From “Connection Refused” to “Active”: My Journey Running RKE2 on SLES 15 ARM with an M-Series Mac

Building a Kubernetes home lab on the Apple M4 chip offers incredible performance, but it can be a significant configuration challenge. This week, I successfully set up Rancher Manager on RKE2 using SLES 15 SP4 on VirtualBox 7. The process was a battle against SSL handshakes, disappearing network interfaces, and restrictive Mac security policies. Below […]

Categories: Community page, Configuration Management, Containers, DevOps, Kubernetes, Rancher Blog, Rancher Kubernetes, Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE), SUSE Blog, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

By: Ted Jones

November 27, 2025 2:18 am

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Drive Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Unification, Zero-Trust Security and Observability at Scale

The fragmentation inherent in managing heterogeneous public and private cloud Kubernetes clusters is the single largest drain on your cloud native budget and a primary source of systemic security risk. Relying on proprietary, vendor-specific tools creates an "autonomy gap" that slows strategic innovation. You can drive multi-cloud Kubernetes Unification and Security and full-stack visibility […]

Categories: Automate IT Ops, AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud-native Transformation, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Expert Views, Featured Content, Microsoft, Rancher Blog, Rancher Kubernetes, SUSE Blog, SUSE Cloud Observability, SUSE Observability, SUSE Security, Technical Solutions

By: Ted Jones

April 30, 2025 9:23 pm

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EKS and SUSE Rancher Prime: A Best Practice Guide for Cloud Native Deployments

EKS and SUSE Rancher Prime: A Best Practice Guide for Cloud Native Deployments This guide offers a set of best practices for both greenfield (new) and brownfield (existing) deployments of Amazon EKS clusters managed by SUSE Rancher Prime. By following these steps, you can ensure your cloud-native infrastructure is secure, scalable, and optimized for performance. […]

By: Ted Jones

April 28, 2025 9:27 pm

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Building the Retail Store of the Future with AWS, SUSE and Lenovo

The retail industry is highly competitive and companies are constantly looking for ways to differentiate themselves. They are adopting new technologies like AI and edge computing and modernizing their application environments with containers, Kubernetes and cloud providers. Some of the challenges they are facing are inventory management, customer service failures, data security, and ways to […]

By: Ted Jones

October 17, 2024 6:54 pm

3,288 views

Securing the Software Supply Chain for Containers: AWS and SUSE Best Practices

In an era where software development and deployment are increasingly reliant on containerized applications, securing the software supply chain has never been more critical. This blog offers an in-depth exploration of best practices and advanced strategies to safeguard containerized environments. Let's begin by exploring what the software supply chain for containers is, and where the […]

By: Ted Jones

July 26, 2024 9:20 pm

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Options for Running Rancher on AWS

AWS is a leading cloud provider and has many shared customers with SUSE. Understanding how Rancher can be leveraged on AWS is a common question asked by our mutual customers as well as new customers just beginning their cloud and container journey. Like all SUSE solutions, Rancher is fully open-sourced and available to use for […]

Author: Ted Jones

Breaking Free: A Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating from Red Hat OpenShift to SUSE Rancher Prime

From “Connection Refused” to “Active”: My Journey Running RKE2 on SLES 15 ARM with an M-Series Mac

Drive Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Unification, Zero-Trust Security and Observability at Scale

EKS and SUSE Rancher Prime: A Best Practice Guide for Cloud Native Deployments

Building the Retail Store of the Future with AWS, SUSE and Lenovo

Securing the Software Supply Chain for Containers: AWS and SUSE Best Practices

Options for Running Rancher on AWS

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