The company has been working on a platform called SUSE Container as a Service Platform. SUSE CaaSP puts together SUSE Linux Enterprise MicroOS, a variant of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server optimized for running Linux containers (also in development), and container orchestration software based on Kubernetes.
In an interview, SUSE’s new CTO, Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo told us that there are many customers who are running legacy systems but they want to migrate to modern technologies over time. Today, if you want to start from scratch, you will start with containers. “We want to make sure that companies that have legacy infrastructure and legacy applications can move to modern technologies, where container as a service is offered through that OS itself,” said “Dr. T” (as he is known in SUSE circles). That’s what CaaSP with MicroOS is being designed to do.
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