SUSE CaaS Platform

Kubernetes, Ready for the Enterprise

SUSE CaaS Platform is an enterprise class container management solution that enables IT and DevOps professionals to more easily deploy, manage, and scale container-based applications and services. It includes Kubernetes to automate lifecycle management of modern applications, and surrounding technologies that enrich Kubernetes and make the platform itself easy to operate. As a result, enterprises that use SUSE CaaS Platform can reduce application delivery cycle times and improve business agility.

SUSE is focused on delivering an exceptional operator experience with SUSE CaaS Platform. With deep competencies in infrastructure, systems, process integration, platform security, lifecycle management and enterprise-grade support, SUSE aims to ensure IT operations teams can deliver the power of Kubernetes to their users quickly, securely and efficiently. With SUSE CaaS Platform you can:

Accelerate modern application delivery with Kubernetes, today's leading container management platform.

Simplify Kubernetes administration with an exceptional platform operator experience.

Maximize return on investment with a flexible, no lock-in solution.

Key Features

A Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) certified Kubernetes distribution, SUSE CaaS Platform automates the orchestration and mana...

Workload scheduling places containers according to their needs while improving resource utilization...

Service discovery and load balancing provides an IP address for your service, and distributes load behind the scenes...

A Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) certified Kubernetes distribution, SUSE CaaS Platform automates the orchestration and management of your containerized applications and services with powerful Kubernetes capabilities

Workload scheduling places containers according to their needs while improving resource utilization

Service discovery and load balancing provides an IP address for your service, and distributes load behind the scenes

Health monitoring and management supports application self-healing and ensures application availability...

Non-disruptive Rollout/Rollback of new applications and updates enables frequent change without downtime...

Application scaling up and down, accommodates changing load...

Workload scheduling places containers according to their needs while improving resource utilization

Service discovery and load balancing provides an IP address for your service, and distributes load behind the scenes

Health monitoring and management supports application self-healing and ensures application availability

Non-disruptive Rollout/Rollback of new applications and updates enables frequent change without downtime

Application scaling up and down, accommodates changing load

Workload scheduling places containers according to their needs while improving resource utilization

Service discovery and load balancing provides an IP address for your service, and distributes load behind the scenes

Health monitoring and management supports application self-healing and ensures application availability

Non-disruptive Rollout/Rollback of new applications and updates enables frequent change without downtime

Application scaling up and down, accommodates changing load

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Reference Architecture

In addition, SUSE CaaS Platform simplifies the platform operator's experience, with everything you need to get up and running quickly, and to manage the environment effectively in production. It provides:

Application ecosystem support with SUSE Linux container base images, and access to tools and services offered by SUSE Ready for CaaS Platform partners and the Kubernetes community
Enhanced datacenter integration features that enable you to plug Kubernetes into new or existing infrastructure, systems, and processes
A complete container execution environment, including a purpose-built container host operating system, container runtime, and container image registries
End-to-End security, implemented holistically across the full stack
Advanced platform management that simplifies platform installation, configuration, re-configuration, monitoring, maintenance, updates, and recovery
Enterprise hardening including comprehensive interoperability testing, support for thousands of platforms, and world-class platform maintenance and technical support

Tech Specs

Minimal system requirements

SUSE CaaS Platform is deployed as a cluster of server nodes, each of which is intended to host some number of containers as workloads. Each node must therefore meet minimal requirements for running the CaaS Platform software, and must also meet additional memory and disk requirements of the containers that will run simultaneously on the node.

Minimally, each physical server that will be included in the SUSE CaaS Platform cluster must meet the following system requirements:

Processor: Any AMD64/Intel EM64T processor
Quad-core processors are recommended. 32-bit processors are not supported
Memory: 4 GB physical RAM per master node and 2GB per worker node
Additional memory requirements are determined by the containers to be run on the node
Disk: 50 GB disk space per node
Additional disk space requirements are determined by the count and size of container images to be run on the node

Supported environments

SUSE CaaS Platform can run on bare metal servers and on private cloud infrastructure resources.

Bare Metal: See the current list of support hardware platforms here
SUSE CaaS Platform runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). This means that SUSE CaaS Platform and SLE will always be supported on the same set of SUSE certified hardware platforms.
Private Cloud: VMware vSphere/ESXi
Support for public cloud infrastructure is coming soon.