1 Product Description #
SUSE CaaS Platform is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) certified Kubernetes distribution on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise.
SUSE CaaS Platform automates the orchestration and management of containerized applications and services with powerful Kubernetes capabilities, including:
Workload scheduling optimizes hardware utilization while taking the container requirements into account.
Service proxies provide single IP addresses for services and distribute the load between containers.
Application scaling up and down accommodates changing loads.
Non-disruptive rollout/rollback of new applications and updates enables frequent changes without downtime.
Health monitoring and management supports application self-healing and ensures application availability.
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:
A complete container execution environment, container run time (CRI-O), and container image registries (registry.suse.com).
Application ecosystem support with SUSE Linux Enterprise 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.
End-to-End security, implemented holistically across the full stack including network policies via Cilium,
PodSecurityPoliciesand Kubernetes RBAC.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.
You can deploy SUSE CaaS Platform onto physical servers or use it on virtual machines. After deployment, it is immediately ready to run and provides a highly-scalable cluster.
SUSE CaaS Platform inherits benefits of SUSE Linux Enterprise and uses tools and technologies well-known to system administrators such as cloud-init or AutoYaST.
For more information, including a list of the various components which make up SUSE CaaS Platform please refer to the Release Notes on https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/.
1.1 Product Release Cycle #
Product releases are aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise releases and Kubernetes. Major version jumps are determined by the SUSE Linux Enterprise release cycle. Minor version jumps by the quarterly Kubernetes releases. Individual maintenance updates with receive patchlevel numbering.
Versioning scheme: x.y.z
x - Base OS version
y - Kubernetes version
z - Patchlevel (incl. new features !)
| Version | Base OS | Kubernetes version | Patchlevel |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0.0 | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | 1.15 | 0 |
4.0.1 | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | 1.15 | 1 |
… | |||
4.1.0 | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | 1.16 | 0 |
… | |||
5.0.0 | SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 | tbd | 0 |