Key takeaways: Enterprise IT environments rarely run purely containerized applications. SUSE Virtualization unifies VM and container management on a single platform. Storware Backup and Recovery delivers policy-driven, agentless protection with ransomware resistance. Whenever connecting with IT teams at events like SUSECON, I hear a familiar story. Very few organizations run a purely containerized stack. Most […]

Key takeaways Docs-first focus: This survey collects feedback exclusively on technical documentation, content architecture and usability, not engineering feature requests or upstream kernel bugs. Full portfolio coverage: The questionnaire covers all SUSE enterprise products and solutions, including Linux, container management, edge platforms, observability and AI. Direct impact: Detailed responses and real-world scenarios directly shape upcoming […]

5G-Advanced and Open RAN deployments demand ultra-low latency, power-efficient edge compute, and seamless integration of AI-augmented workloads. To help telecom operators solve these physical edge constraints and latency challenges, SUSE and AMD have released a validated Technical Reference Documentation (TRD). Running SUSE Telco Cloud on 5th Gen AMD® EPYC™ 9005 Series Processors delivers a robust, […]

The 2026 SUSE Documentation Survey is LIVE! Enterprise software is only as good as the docs that power it, and nobody knows where our docs shine—or where they fall short—better than you. Whether you rely on our guides to keep mission-critical infrastructure running smoothly or drop in for quick troubleshooting, your real-world experience directly shapes […]

Telecom networks traditionally run on proprietary hardware and software stacks that lock operators into rigid vendor roadmaps. If you want to change a single component, you often have to overhaul the entire system. Fortunately, the industry is moving toward open, disaggregated, and AI-native architectures. Our latest Technical Reference guide shows exactly how we made this […]

The following is a guest blog post authored by Matthew Small, VP Customer Success, Revenium. Accountability for Liz and the crew Agentic workforces are assembling at SUSE. Liz, the AI assistant SUSE built to be the most enthusiastic SME SRE on your IT team, isn’t just one assistant anymore. It’s now got an entire SRE […]

Edge computing always presents a familiar puzzle. You need your applications to be highly available because out there in the real world, things break. But you also have to fit your hardware into cramped, power-constrained cabinets. And, frankly, you need to stay within a reasonable budget. Traditionally, if you wanted production-grade, distributed storage that could […]

Managing enterprise IT often feels like keeping one foot in the past and the other in the future. On one side, you have legacy virtual machine infrastructure that your operations team knows inside out; on the other, cloud-native containerized stacks driving rapid application development. Running these environments separately usually means maintaining duplicate hardware investments and […]

Every modern Linux system relies on a delicate runtime dance. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) kernel includes more than 2,000 loadable modules out of the box, with about 60 percent of them serving as hardware drivers. But what happens when you need to introduce a brand-new storage controller driver or swap out an existing […]

Managing a high-availability SAP environment requires balancing strict uptime demands with infrastructure complexity. For critical applications like SAP S/4HANA, clear visibility into hardware and operating system metrics is necessary to detect and resolve issues early. Historically, tracking these components meant running multiple standalone data collectors across your network. In the latest SUSE Best Practices guide, […]

Let’s be real—a “Security Report” doesn’t usually scream “fun weekend read.” But the SUSE Solution Security Risk Report 2025 (authored by our colleage Stoyan Manolov) is more than just a data dump. It’s a roadmap of how we’re navigating a digital world that’s getting faster, smarter, and—yes—a bit more crowded with vulnerabilities. Here is the […]

This article was written by Jana Jaeger, Project Manager Technical Documentation at SUSE.       Join the SUSE Documentation team in welcoming the newest addition to the SUSE Documentation Portal: Our new documentation chatbot called Ask Geeko. Designed as a natural language interface to all the technical documentation hosted on documentation.suse.com, it offers a […]

Say Hello to SUSE Rancher Prime and WSO2 OpenChoreo Is your developer experience starting to feel a bit… fragmented? You’ve conquered Kubernetes at the infrastructure level, but your developers are still stuck waiting on platform teams for environments, pipelines, and API exposure. Meanwhile, the AI revolution isn’t just coming—it’s already in your pull requests. It’s […]

The countdown is officially on: we are less than two weeks away from SUSECON 2026 in beautiful Prague! I’ll be honest—the Documentation team is already buzzing. It’s already a tradition that we’re here with a dedicated track, but for 2026, we’ve packed in even more value for you. We’re moving far beyond just “manuals and […]

In the world of hybrid cloud infrastructure, the lines between traditional virtual machines (VMs) and modern containerized applications are blurring. Organizations today need a unified platform that can handle both without compromising on performance or reliability. At SUSE, we provide that cohesive experience through SUSE Virtualization, our cloud-native hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution built on the […]

The Edge Infrastructure Perfect Storm Have you noticed the perfect storm brewing in the telecommunications world lately? With the massive push toward 5G-Advanced, Open RAN, and AI-driven automation, network traffic is absolutely exploding. But there is a huge roadblock: the physical edge locations where all this data needs to be processed are severely limited on […]

Let’s be real: Enterprises are currently heavily investing in AI infrastructure to support everything from process automation to custom model development. The AI Production Trap But here is the catch—moving from isolated, cool AI experiments to reliable, repeatable production deployments is a massive hurdle. Without a centralized management layer, expensive compute resources like GPUs are […]

The telecommunications landscape is shifting beneath our feet. As operators race toward 5G-Advanced and O-RAN, they face a daunting challenge: how to deliver sub-millisecond latency and massive AI inferencing without exploding their power budgets or physical footprints. Traditional, “accelerator-heavy” designs often lead to vendor lock-in and high operational complexity. Today, we are thrilled to announce […]

It has been a while since I last discussed our SUSE Technical Reference Documentation (TRD) series, but it is certainly worth another look! Our TRD library serves as a curated hub of practical, real-world blueprints. These are designed to help platform engineers and systems administrators navigate complex integrations with confidence. Furthermore, these documents are more […]

This article was written by Hariharan T S, Team Lead for KVM in PowerVM LPARs at IBM. Hariharan T S has 20 years of experience working on Linux kernel subsystems, virtualization, and device-driver testing across IBM Power and IBM Z systems. His background includes the functional verification of major Linux distributions on s390x and ppc64le […]

This article was written by Marcus Rueckert, Build Service Engineer at SUSE. This article originally appeared on the ‘Nordisch by Nature‘ blog under the same title and has been slightly updated for the suse.com blog. The End of Spec File Sprawl? Enter Declarative RPM For decades, the RPM spec file has been the “Swiss Army […]

I’m sure you’ve read the recent exciting announcement about the general availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 here on our SUSE Blog. And I assume that, a little while back, you saw the blog post about our big plan to move from “Monolithic Manuals to Modular Docs“. We talked about leaving behind those massive, hundreds-of-pages-long […]

This article was written by Hridyesh Singh Bisht, Technical Writer on the SUSE Documentation Team.         Modern Kubernetes environments evolve rapidly, containers start and stop within seconds, workloads scale dynamically, and network connections shift constantly. Traditional firewalls and intrusion prevention systems aren’t designed for this. NeuVector, the open-source, Kubernetes-native container security platform […]

This article has been contributed by Tanja Roth, Team Lead at the SUSE Documentation Team.          Great news! A year after modernizing our documentation portal at documentation.suse.com, we’re taking the next logical step: modernizing the content itself. Launching alongside SUSE Linux Enterprise 16—designed to meet modern IT demands—our product documentation follows suit, and […]

This article was written by Sushant Gaurav, Technical Engineer Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team. When you run applications on Kubernetes, you need persistent storage. This storage retains data even if a pod restarts, crashes, or reschedules to another node. Kubernetes manages this through Persistent Volumes (PVs) and Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs), which allow applications to request and use […]

This article was written by Hridyesh Singh Bisht, Technical Writer on the SUSE Documentation Team.       Imagine you’re building a coffee shop application with three core microservices: order-service: Handles customer orders. payment-service: Processes transactions. inventory-service: Tracks beans, milk, cups, and other inventory. Now scale this across hundreds or thousands of physical store locations—each […]

The SUSE Documentation Team is excited to announce the launch of our 2025 Global Documentation Survey! We are calling on you, our valued customers and partners—the hands-on technical experts who use our documentation every day—to share your valuable insights. This year, our survey encompasses the documentation for the entire SUSE portfolio. From SUSE Linux Enterprise […]

Can you believe it? I’m truly celebrating 25 years here at SUSE. I dedicate this to my wonderful colleagues who’ve walked this path with me over the past 25 years and share similar stories. Many of them are also celebrating their 25th anniversaries this year, including @Harald Müller-Ney, @Tom Schraitle, @Rolf Schmidt, @Paul Zirnik, @Tania […]

… or: From the Litchi Kingdom to the Cloud This article has been contributed by Sushant Gaurav, Technical Engineer Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team.  It is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE Documentation and the great minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, and many more helpful documents.     […]

This article was contributed by Akash Raj, Technical Writer at the SUSE documentation department.  It is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE documentation and the great minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, and many more helpful documents.       Early life I was born in Mangalore, a beautiful coastal […]

A decade at SUSE: My journey through IT, astronomy and lifelong learning This article has been contributed by Joseph Cayouette, Documentation Engineer at the SUSE Documentation Team.  It is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE Documentation and the great minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, and many more helpful documents. […]

by Jana Jaeger and Meike Chabowski  We have great news for you: today the new SUSE documentation portal officially launched into the entire SUSE universe. This important milestone represents a step change for you as it provides a huge improvement in the way you interact with technical documentation across the SUSE portfolio.  Catering to changing documentation […]

This article has been contributed by Tanja Roth, Team Lead at the SUSE documentation department.  It is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE documentation and the great minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, and many more helpful documents. The early years I grew up in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a city […]

The following article has been contributed by Ancor González Sosa and the YaST team at SUSE.       At the end of 2023, we announced Agama 7, a new service-based installer for Linux. That version was the first prototype we could consider to be ‘functional enough’ for our purposes, as it covers areas such […]

Once again, experts from our SUSE toolchain development team (Jan Hubička, Michael Matz, Richard Biener) led by Martin Jambor have joined forces with Brent Hollingsworth from AMD, to publish a new SUSE Best Practices guide. The document “Advanced Optimization and New Capabilities of GCC 12” provides a detailed overview of the most current GNU Compiler […]

    Roughly six weeks ago, we launched our new yearly documentation survey on documentation.suse.com. Participation to date We are very grateful for all the responses that are coming in.  KUDOS to our SUSE partners: As of now, you are very active and make up two thirds of the survey participants. On the one hand, […]

The content of the following article has been contributed by Gayathri Gandaboyina, Web Developer at the SUSE documentation team.     The team behind documentation.suse.com have unveiled an exciting new search tool powered by Google’s Programmable Search Engine. You can access it directly from our documentation landing page. This enhanced functionality empowers you to not […]

EPYC is AMD’s flagship mainstream server microprocessors and supports 1-way and 2-way multiprocessing. The first generation was originally announced back in May 2017: At time being, it replaced the previous Opteron server family with the introduction of the Zen microarchitecture for the mainstream market. 4nd Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors With the fourth iteration of the […]

You might already have noticed: I never tire to emphasize that documentation is an essential part of any product. This is especially true for enterprise software which covers many use cases. Most software solutions only become usable thanks to detailed documentation. We’ve got direct feedback from you, our customers and partners, how much you rely […]

Over. And way too fast. During the three days of being onsite at SUSECON 2023 in Munich, time literally just flew. I promised you a vibrant atmosphere, an impressive agenda, energetic tech talks, lively discussions, thrilling evening events, and a great time with the legendary SUSE Band. I didn’t promise too much, did I? Looking […]

This article is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE documentation and the minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, best practices and many more helpful documents. The content of this article has been contributed by Amrita Sakthivel, Senior Technical Writer at the SUSE documentation department.       Bonjour mes amis, […]

  Finally! The long-awaited SUSECON 2023 live event is just around the corner. It’s such a great feeling that we are back to normal after three years of pandemic. I’m sure you already know it: we will paint the Westin Grand Munich  green inside out from Monday June 19th to Thursday June 22nd. Join the […]

Good news: just recently, the Linux Magazine published its Issue 46, which is the “Getting Started with Linux – 2022 Edition“. In the editorial, Hans-Georg Eßer, Editor in Chief, highlights that “installing and using Linux has become so easy that there’s no good reason to stick with Windows”. We who live in a Linux world […]

SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLE Micro) is a lightweight and secure OS platform purpose built for containerized and virtualized workloads. It leverages the enterprise-hardened technology components of SUSE Linux Enterprise and merges that with what developers want from a modern, immutable OS platform. As a result, you get an ultra-reliable infrastructure platform that is also […]

The following article has been contributed by Bo Jin, Sales Engineer at SUSE and Linux Consultant.     Challenge and motivation SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is not just a great product for running SAP workloads. SUSE also provides best practice guides for building up reliable SAP HANA SR high availability clusters by […]

You might have already realized it when looking at our documentation.suse.com portal: the SUSE Best Practices (SBP) series of documentation got a new sibling—and it is growing fast! Yes, I am talking of the Technical Reference Documentation (TRD). Under the two currently available categories Kubernetes and Linux, we have already published 50+ documents—expect more to be posted during the […]

This article has been contributed by Jose Gomez, Full Stack Web Developer at SUSE.    Attention: This article does not intend to provide a guide for the Open Build Service (OBS). If you want to learn more about OBS, visit the project’s Web page at http://openbuildservice.org/ and read the specific documentation there http://openbuildservice.org/help/. Background The […]

Every year in late summer—or early autumn—the SUSE documentation team conducts a global survey to gather concrete feedback from our technical users at customers, partners and SUSE about what the current documentation might lack, and how we can improve our documentation services.  For the very first time, and for a limited time period, we also ran so-called […]

There is a natural connection. Positive vibes probably, or the zodiac sign that “brought us together”? Yes – Linux and I have been born on the same day – August 25 (well – not exactly in the same year however …). Thinking about the “double feature birthday” – and the upcoming 30th (!!!) birthday of […]

The content of this article has been contributed by Jana Jaeger, Project Manager at the SUSE documentation department.       Most of the SUSE doc folks ended up on the team by happy accident. That is exactly what happened to me. Not to bore you with my bio too much, here are some (random) facts about […]

This article has been contributed by Dmitri Popov, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team.      Let’s start by stating the obvious. Well-written texts have three basic properties: correct spelling and punctuation correct grammar consistency Correctness is required While a spell checker can take care of the first item in the list, you can catch […]

Have you recently visited documentation.suse.com? And checked out an HTML document? Then you might have noticed that something has changed. The look and feel are different, you say? Absolutely right! Just recently, we introduced the new column-based layout. HTML columns are used to arrange content in a very organized way. And at the same time, they allow for much […]

Did you know that everyone can contribute to good and even better SUSE documentation? For example, in the real spirit of open source, we invite all technical experts of the SUSE ecosystem to share their expertise and knowledge via a SUSE Best Practices document. The SUSE Best Practices are a series of documents that provide reliable […]

This article is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE Documentation and the minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, and many more helpful documents. Would you have told me 30 years ago that I would work soon in the area of Information Technology, I would have boisterously laughed at you. Yes, I […]

With the newly published SUSE Best Practices document “Microsoft SQL Server on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server – Getting Started“, my colleague James Yang recently provided a long-awaited and easy-to-follow guide that helps users install and configure a basic Microsoft SQL Server deployment on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.       Background Since Microsoft released SQL Server for […]

  The following article has been contributed by Bo Jin, Systems Engineer at SUSE and Linux Consultant.       Introduction “SUSE Manager 4.1 and Uyuni (the upstream version of SUSE Manager) support single sign-on (SSO) by implementing the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2 protocol”. This sentence means that SUSE Manager is supporting single sign-on with […]

The following article has been contributed by Dmitri Popov, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation team.         If you happen to use Visual Studio Code as your preferred writing and coding tool and you want to access it from anywhere, code-server can come in rather handy. Install the application on a server, and you can use your […]

Technical documentation is not limited to conventional product documentation in the form of guides or manuals. It consists of many different types, categories and channels. Of course, product and solution related information is important. But in addition, there are technical information documents of many different levels delivered by many different departments and subject matter experts. This […]

This article has been contributed by Felix Niederwanger, Software Engineer at SUSE.     Overview When it comes to testing and virtual devices for testing purposes, the Linux kernel is always a surprisingly rich source. I’m at the moment working on setting up an openQA test for wpa_supplicant, probably the most widespread program for protected WiFi […]

This article has been contributed by Lin Ma, Software Engineer and KVM Virtualization Specialist at SUSE. If you want to read more from Lin about virtualization, machine learning and artificial intelligence, have a look at the following articles: A Pen Plotter Powered by Artificial Intelligence How to Do Deep Machine Learning Tasks Inside KVM Guests with […]

This article has been contributed by Lin Ma, Software Engineer and KVM Virtualization Specialist at SUSE. If you want to read more from him about virtualization, machine learning and artificial intelligence, have a look at the following articles: How to Do Deep Machine Learning Tasks Inside KVM Guests with a Passed-through NVIDIA GPU Machine Learning: Oriented […]

This article has been contributed by Lin Ma, Software Engineer and KVM Virtualization Specialist at SUSE.   This article shows how to run deep machine learning tasks in a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 KVM guest. In a first step, you will learn how to do the train/test tasks using CPU and GPU separately. After that, we […]

The following article is part of a series of articles that provide tips and tricks for Linux newbies – or Desktop users that are not yet experienced with regard to certain topics. This series intends to complement the special edition #30 “Getting Started with Linux” based on openSUSE Leap, recently published by the Linux Magazine, with valuable additional information. […]

The following article has been contributed by Janina Setz, Trainee at SUSE. The original article has been published in German at DataCenter Insider. A big “Thank You” to chief editor Ulrike Ostler for the permission to publish the article in English at the SUSE blog.   Anyone who has ever used an instruction manual knows how important it is […]

The following article has been contributed by Marcus “Darix” Rückert, Senior Software Engineer in the Operations & Services Team at SUSE. It first appeared on his personal homepage.   For quite a few years now I have been a HAProxy user, even using snapshots in production for a very long time. Especially after support was added […]

The following article has been contributed by Carla Schroder, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team.     Documentation is notorious for being in a persistent Schrödinger state. Everyone wants good documentation, but nobody reads it. Writing good documentation is “easy”, but nobody wants to write it. Documentation is absolutely necessary, and carries equal rank […]

The following article has been contributed by Carla Schroder, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team. The original article has been published in German at DataCenter Insider. A big “Thank You” to chief editor Ulrike Ostler for the permission to publish the article in English at the SUSE blog.     Google, Facebook, and Twitter own giant […]

The following article has been contributed by Alexander Graf, Principal Software Engineer at SUSE.       Every piece of hardware, every electronic device comes with so-called firmware–software that is deeply embedded in the piece of hardware, that provides the low-level control program for the device, and that is necessary to get the “machine to […]

This guest article has been contributed by Tanja Roth, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team.       At SUSE, we have a long tradition of bringing together people from different locations and cultural backgrounds – open source simply is in our genes! First Cross-cultural Challenge When I started to work on the documentation for […]

The following article has been contributed by Dmitri Popov, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation team.       Deploying openSUSE on Raspberry Pi 3 is not all that complicated, but there are a few tricks that smooth the process. First of all, you have several flavours to choose from. If you plan to use your Raspberry […]

You might have heard me emphasizing it several times: in my view, documentation is an essential part of a product, above all when it comes to software. Most software tools just and only become usable thanks to comprehensive documentation. If you work in an IT department and you are responsible for operative and productive environments […]

What is an intelligent and motivating way to foster open source contribution AND innovation? A really good option is offering a Hack Week. Don´t know what this is? Hack Week – at least at SUSE – is a week-long kind of development `sprint´ permitting our developers to dedicate their time on special projects. No matter […]

Today is the last day of exhibition at Supercomputing Conference 2012. And the Salt Lake Tribune really hits the mark with its recent article about Supercomputing being now part of everyday life. In a sense, everyone has baby supercomputers these days, whether or not they are used for technical workloads. An important category within threshold […]

I am sure you all agree that SUSE Studio is a great technology. And the idea behind SUSE Studio is simple: if you make it easy for IT shops and independent software vendors to create, manage, deploy, and patch their own customized images, appliances or workloads (whatever term you prefer), you get them all by […]