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March 23, 2020 9:14 am

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SAP on SUSE: Everything You Need to Know – Blog Take 2

And, we’re back! Due to some unforeseen circumstances, we had to postpone the webinar “SAP on SUSE: Everything You Need to Know” but we’re all set to host it on a new date. On March 31 at 11:00 am US Eastern Time / 5:00 pm CET, I will be moderating the webinar […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Containers, Kubernetes, S/4HANA, SAP Solutions, SUSE CaaS Platform, SUSE in the Cloud, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

By: Jason Phippen

November 15, 2019 3:11 pm

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Virtualization Management with SUSE Manager

SUSE® Manager 4 is a best-in-class open source infrastructure management solution that lowers costs, enhances availability and reduces complexity for life-cycle management of Linux systems in large, complex and dynamic IT landscapes. You can use SUSE Manager to configure, deploy and administer thousands of Linux systems running on hypervisors, as containers, on bare metal systems, […]

Categories: SUSE Manager

By: Jason Phippen

April 29, 2019 11:31 am

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IT Infrastructure Management: What You Need to Know

In the old days, system administrators spent a majority of their time watching file servers, managing user accounts, and ensuring network connectivity, but today’s infrastructure is a busier and more exotic place. Applications hide in containers, systems hide in other systems, new configurations appear and disappear with a single mouse click, and every file […]

Categories: Compliance, Configuration Management, Containers, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Software-defined Infrastructure, SUSE Manager

By: Jason Phippen

January 15, 2019 6:11 pm

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Managing compliance for Linux systems with SUSE Manager

Many industries and governments require compliance with security standards to ensure security, identity, confidentiality, and data integrity. These standards specify a minimum security level and also mandate measures such as logging and auditing to reveal any hints of unauthorized use. Some of the most widely adopted standards are: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)—a US standard intended to […]

Tags: CVE, Linux, Salt, SLES, SUSE Manager

Categories: SUSE Manager, SUSE News

By: Joachim Werner

November 26, 2018 6:21 pm

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SUSE Manager’s missing locking feature, and how it’s not missing at all

Earlier this month, a colleague from France asked why SUSE Manager doesn't offer a system locking feature when you choose Salt as the client stack. This feature is still available if you're using the traditional SUSE Manager client stack. It allows you to lock the system and prevent any changes like installing or removing packages […]

Tags: Salt, saltstack

Categories: Configuration Management, Expert Views, SUSE Manager

By: Jason Phippen

September 4, 2018 2:45 pm

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SUSE Manager Technical Overview Part 3 – Configuration Management

In this 3 part blog series we take a deeper look into SUSE Manager 3.2, looking at what the product does, how it does and how it is set up. Blog Part 1 - Discover SUSE Manager Blog Part 2 - How SUSE Manager Works Blog Part 3 - SUSE Manager Configuration Management Part […]

Tags: Salt, suse manager 3.2

Categories: SUSE Manager

By: Joachim Werner

June 25, 2018 2:53 pm

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What’s new in SUSE Manager 3.2

Did you realize that the title rhymes? There is an old saying that if something rhymes it must be true. And indeed, in this blog I'm only going to tell you hard facts about SUSE Manager 3.2, the latest release of our best-in-class open source infrastructure management solution that we announced today: Ready for […]

Tags: KIWI, Salt, saltstack, Uyuni

Categories: Configuration Management, DevOps, Expert Views, IT Infrastructure Management, Software-defined Infrastructure, SUSE Manager, SUSE News

By: Joachim Werner

June 2, 2018 6:34 pm

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We’re back to Earth, and the Earth is flat! Welcome Uyuni!

Open Source is about choice, and making choices. One of the choices we made when we introduced SUSE Manager in 2011 was to not re-invent the wheel. Instead, we based SUSE Manager on the Spacewalk project. And we haven’t looked back ever since. Spacewalk provided us with a solid and mature code base that […]

Tags: Salt, saltstack, Uyuni

Categories: Announcements, Compliance, Configuration Management, Containers, Expert Views, Kubernetes, News, Software-defined Infrastructure, SUSE Manager, Virtualization

By: Joachim Werner

May 4, 2018 8:23 pm

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SUSE Manager 3.2 Beta3 has landed on my desk! And yours?

The SUSE Manager team has been churning out one SUSE Manager 3.2 beta release after the other. So I've had a hard time catching up with the blog posts. That's why today you're getting two blogs for the price of one: The announcement: Beta 3 is out (drums rolling)! Beta 3, our final beta, […]

Tags: Salt, saltstack

Categories: Announcements, Configuration Management, Expert Views, SUSE Manager

By: Joachim Werner

May 1, 2018 8:02 pm

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A fresh breath of Oxygen: The latest Salt version, now on openSUSE Tumbleweed!

A couple of weeks ago, Saltstack proudly announced the newest version of Salt, the powerful tool for remote execution, configuration management, and event-driven automation. As you know, we've been using Salt a lot in SUSE Manager and as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Hundreds of improvements The latest version brings a fresh breath of […]

Tags: Salt, saltstack, Tumbleweed

Categories: Configuration Management, DevOps, Expert Views, OpenStack, openSUSE, SLES on Azure