Troy Topnik, Author at SUSE Communities

April 23, 2020 7:59 pm

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SUSE Stratos Console 3.0 & 3.1

SUSE Stratos Console 3.0 was released a little over a month ago without the fanfare it absolutely deserves. Now the 3.1 release which will be part of Cloud Application Platform 2.0 has just been released, so let's go over some of the great work the Stratos team has done over the last […]

Categories: Announcements, Kubernetes, SUSE CaaS Platform, SUSE Cloud Application Platform

By: Troy Topnik

September 10, 2019 8:47 pm

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SUSE Cloud Application Platform 1.5 released

SUSE Cloud Application Platform 1.5 is out! It includes many updates from upstream Cloud Foundry, but also a number of useful and exciting new features unique to SUSE. This release, in conjunction with SUSE CaaS Platform 4, is the next step in the evolution of SUSE's Application Delivery Solutions portfolio. Helm in Stratos The […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, Containers, Containers as a Service, Digital Transformation, Kubernetes, SUSE Cloud Application Platform, SUSE News

By: Troy Topnik

June 6, 2019 6:50 am

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The Holy Grail of PaaS on Kubernetes

Kubernetes will solve all of our problems right? It’s the container platform that will allow our development teams to deploy their microservice applications in all their cloud native glory. We’ll all be able to deploy our web apps without needing to worry about the servers that are running them or interact with the […]

Categories: Containers as a Service, Kubernetes, SUSE CaaS Platform, SUSE Cloud Application Platform, SUSE News

By: Troy Topnik

April 23, 2019 5:44 pm

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Eirini and CF Containerization: a field guide

The recent Cloud Foundry Summit in Philadelphia featured two talks that were crucial to understanding the future of Cloud Foundry as it relates to Kubernetes. "Kube" your Enthusiasm: Bringing Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes Together with Project Eirini by Dr. Julz from IBM and Mario Nitchev from SAP and, A Native Kube Operator Tailored for […]

Categories: Containers, Containers as a Service, DevOps, Kubernetes, SUSE Cloud Application Platform

By: Troy Topnik

April 2, 2019 3:56 am

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SUSE Cloud Application Platform v1.4 released

We're happy to announce upcoming release of SUSE Cloud Application Platform 1.4, which will include some important new capabilities that we'll be showing off this week at SUSECON and Cloud Foundry Summit. This release continues SUSE's work to combine Cloud Foundry's simple deployment model with the power, flexibility, and growing ubiquity of Kubernetes. Google […]

Categories: Announcements, Containers, Kubernetes, SUSE Cloud Application Platform, SUSE News

By: Troy Topnik

March 12, 2019 10:25 pm

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Stratos: Customizing and Extending your Cloud Foundry UI

A few weeks ago the Cloud Foundry Foundation gave me the opportunity to talk about one of SUSE’s main contributions to Cloud Foundry. Stratos is the open source UI for Cloud Foundry, which SUSE donated to the Cloud Foundry Incubator a little over a year ago. It’s an important part of SUSE Cloud […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, Containers, DevOps, Kubernetes, SUSE Cloud Application Platform

By: Troy Topnik

November 7, 2018 6:45 pm

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Cloud Foundry Containerization for Kubernetes

I had the opportunity to present a talk on the CF Containerization project with Sandy Cash from IBM at the recent Cloud Foundry Summit Europe. We wanted to give the Cloud Foundry community an update on the work that SUSE and IBM are doing to bring our innovative approach to running Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes […]

By: Troy Topnik

May 30, 2018 6:52 pm

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A warm welcome for Stratos

I recently got a chance to demonstrate the Stratos UI for Cloud Foundry for a really big group of people. The Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston was our chance to show off the hard work that the Cloud Application Platform team in Bristol have done over the past several months. Keynote Demo? Yes Please! The […]

Categories: Containers, Digital Transformation, Kubernetes, SUSE Cloud Application Platform

By: Troy Topnik

September 20, 2017 12:16 pm

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Building on our experience with Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes

A number of us from the HPE Helion team joined SUSE back in March and have been working hard on SUSE's new cloud application and container platforms. Our team is building a Cloud Foundry distribution based on SUSE Linux that runs on Kubernetes. We've had a bit of practice at this. Helion Stackato 4 actually […]

Categories: SUSE Cloud Application Platform, Technical Solutions