[GRLUG] Thurs stlLUG: SuSE Liberty option for CentOS. SuSE Harvester organizes Kubernettes in The Cloud

[Grand Rapids Linux Users Group]

In case anyone is interested:

	Thurs 17 Feb 2022
	stllug.org

SUSE Update - What's New: Suse Rancher, Harvester, Liberty, and more!

SuSE Liberty is an option for CentOS.
>From https://www.linuxadictos.com/en/suse-alternative-centos-liberty-linux.html

CentOS was one of the most acclaimed distros for servers, and one that
many companies adopted, a binary fork of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux),
from Red Hat (now owned by IBM), maintained by the community and free.
But nevertheless, in an unexpected turn (by RedHat), everything was turned
upside down, leaving a large gap that is now to be filled.  (The CentOS
that we knew is no more.)  Liberty Linux from SUSE, is another of the
alternatives that join projects like AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, etc.  ...
...  ...

Liberty Linux is a distro that has being createded by SUSE with its own
Open Build Service tool, from the binary packages Official Red Hat RPMs
(SRPMs).  In the case of the kernel, the RHEL kernel will not be used,
rather it is based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) kernel, but
compiled using a configuration to maintain compatibility for RHEL/CentOS.

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SUSE Rancher is a container management platform that provides full
management of Kubernetes distributions, whether managing one or one
hundred ... SUSE Rancher addresses the needs for deploying apps.

The difference between Kubernetes and Rancher is:
	Kubernetes is a technology for managing containers organized under a cluster of virtual or physical machines.
	Rancher is a technology for managing Kubernetes clusters en masse.

Harvester = Open, interoperable hyperconverged infrastructure HCI

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) doesn't need to be expensive or
complex and with Harvester it's not. Harvester presents organizations with
a modern HCI solution that is feature-full and purpose built for
cloud-native environments. Consolidate virtual machine workloads and
Kubernetes clusters with Harvester.

Designed by the SUSE Rancher engineering team, Harvester is built on
Kubernetes and utilizes the latest cloud-native solutions

Harvester has two modes of operation:

	HCI, where it can attach to another cluster as a VM hosting node or
	a Helm application deployed into an existing Kubernetes cluster.