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By: Joachim Werner

May 29, 2017 2:13 am

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Put your systems into a high state!

The highstate is what Salt, the systems management framework that has become so core to  SUSE Manager,  calls it when an admin applies all the configuration states to a system that are meant to be applied on that system. Salt can also apply individual state changes, but the highstate comes closest to a […]

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By: Joachim Werner

May 25, 2017 5:37 am

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No beta blockers for SUSE Manager 3.1. So let’s get ready for containers!

Managing content and compliance in hybrid cloud and container infrastructures is our main design goal for the upcoming SUSE Manager 3.1 release. This is in line with our strategy for the Container as a Service Platform. With Beta 3 and its further improved support for building container images we reached a critical milestone towards […]

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By: SUSE

March 13, 2017 7:40 am

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A Trio to Remember – Tyson Foods, SUSE Manager and SaltStack

As you may have heard, we started planning for SUSECON 2017 and as we dove into this work I started to think about SUSECON 2016.  This was my first SUSECON, as I only joined the company earlier in the year.  I loved the music, the sessions and most of all the people. One […]

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By: Joachim Werner

February 14, 2017 10:45 am

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High concentration of Salt, not just in the Dead Sea

Finally, the wait has an end: Earlier this month we made Salt 2015.8.12 available to all customers with a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscription! [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="512"] Dead Sea (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_14749_dead_sea.JPG)[/caption] This may sound like a small step, but, as far as I can tell, it […]

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By: Joachim Werner

January 19, 2017 3:52 am

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Three-O-Three is out! What’s new in SUSE Manager 3.0.3?

If you are a regular reader of my blog posts, chances are that you are at least slightly interested in what's going on with SUSE Manager, our comprehensive Lifecycle Management solution for Linux. Well, then I've got some good news for you: Earlier this week we released SUSE Manager 3.0.3, a maintenance release […]

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By: Nathan Barney

November 30, 2016 11:13 am

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They Like Us, And It's Not Just Me Saying That

In my work with our partners here at SUSE I get to interact with partners of all types. I get to talk with them about how we work together and hear not only about the marketing, which is my field, but also hear about the other engagements we work on in areas like sales, engineering […]

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By: Joachim Werner

November 2, 2016 10:13 am

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Salting Spacewalk and SenseHat …

Most pull requests on GitHub aren't that newsworthy, but there are two that were accepted into the Salt project recently that I think you should be aware of. Both of them started as part of a SUSE Hack Week effort. Let's begin with the "fun one": With the inclusion of the execution module […]

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By: SUSE

October 17, 2016 8:10 am

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Managing configuration drift with Salt and Snapper

Recently SUSE announced its partnership with SaltStack. In this post series we will explore how SUSE is realizing the Software-defined Data Center vision through the Salt project. Introduction Many configuration management tools originate in the DevOps space and become immensely popular and while they do manage configuration, they are tailored towards deployment of new servers […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

June 22, 2016 6:22 am

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openSUSE Conference – First Impressions of Day One

This is a guest blog written by Frank Sundermeyer, Project Manager Documentation (supported by photos from chabowski). Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016. Long awaited openSUSE Conference (oSC) finally started. I arrived half an hour before the keynote to join an impressive crowd at the reception desk. Upon registration, like all attendees, I received the beautiful oSC […]

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