SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Architecture
Application Delivery

Container Management Platform as a Service

Infrastructure
& Lifecycle Software-Defined Infrastructure
Management
Private Cloud / IaaS

Uyuni /
Public Cloud
Spacewalk
Compute Storage Networking
SALT

Multimodal Operating System

Monasca

Physical Infrastructure:
 The World is Changing. By 2022,

90% of all new apps will feature

microservices architectures.

35% of all production apps will

be cloud-native.

https://www.ericsson.com/en/mobility-report/internet-of-things-forecast
 Cloud + Traditional + Edge Edge
Cloud

Requirements are changing

Variety of technologies in the mix
New operational models are in play

Traditional
Multimodal IT

A co-existence of
traditional Multimodal
Platform
infrastructure,
software-defined
infrastructure and
application oriented
architectures.
Multimodal Architecture
SUSE Cloud
Application Container Workload
Platform

SUSE CaaS Virtual

Platform Workload
Machine
SLES
SUSE
SUSE
Enterprise
OpenStack
Storage Appliance Workload
Cloud
SLED

SLE 15 Products SDI Products Services

Traditional Software-Defined
Infrastructure Infrastructure (SDI)

Common Code Base

All Architectures (x86-64, Arm, POWER, IBM Z)
Multimodal OS Requirements
Software-defined
Traditional Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Multiple use cases Single use case, multiple systems

Manual and automatic installation Automatic and centralized installation

Variety of updates, upgrades, legacy Always up-to-date

Variable packaging and installation Fit one purpose

May become huge in size and Small as possible for size and
management management
• Goodbye
Stack

Hello Common Code

Base and Modular+
Common Code Base
Benefits across 3
dimensions:
• Hardware Architecture
• Applications Improve Simplicity in
systems support and
• Systems Management management services
“IDC believes the common
code base of SUSE Linux
Enterprise 15 makes the Support IBM
Ensure Silicon agnostic
product a multi-platform OS Consistency computing
Mainframe -
that is well suited for Raspberry Pi
heterogeneous computing
environments.”
– IDC Market Note, 2018
Modular+ “Everything is a Module”
SUSE Linux Enterprise
A product (e.g., SUSE High Availability Extension
Linux Enterprise Server) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
is a set of modules.
Server
Legacy
Apps
Pool of Modules
SLE Desktop
Containers Public Common Code Base Modules
Cloud

Desktop Base Desktop

SAP …. Productivity System Apps ….
Solution
Unified Installer
Single starting point SAP
HA Soln.
The Unified Installer installs all SUSE Linux
Enterprise 15 products from a single medium.
Unified SLE
Installer Server

SAP System
Unified
Installer

Live Web/
Patch Script

Easy to deploy Unified SLE

The Unified Installer medium is small. It allows easier Installer Server
handling, remote use and faster deployment cycle.
Dev System
Make traditional IT
infrastructure More Efficient

• Minimize upfront planning and simplify

decision making with Modular+ architecture.

• Easily transition to or leverage public cloud –

Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform. Bring-
your-own-subscription (BYOS) of SUSE Linux
Enterprise 15.
• Enhance security with disconnected
offline installation.
• Simplify IT operations with the new
unified installer.
Simplify Multimodal IT

Bridge traditional and

software-defined
infrastructure
• Improve application portability
• Improve systems management
• Bring simplicity to support and
services
Developer’s Friend
• Move to production faster from developer setups
• Two options for a direct path to SUSE Linux Enterprise

Community Linux
Option 1
openSUSE Leap
SLE 15

Free Developer
Option 2
Subscription
SLE 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15
SP1 Availability
• Mediums/Channels • Architectures
• Unified Installer • X86-64
• Off-line installation medium • Power LE
• On-line installation & update channels • System z
• JeOS • ARM64
• Containers • Target scenarios
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) • Physical
• Quarterly Update to install media • Virtual host
• Virtual guest
• Container
• Public cloud
• Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, Google Cloud,
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 – Install Screen
We Are DevOps

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 Example Architecture
Public Cloud
(Market Place images/Cloud Foundry)
SDI (OpenStack/Containers)
Custom
Apps Tensor
SAP Flow

Hadoop
Hadoop
Hadoop Custom MS SQL
Apps (on Linux) SUSE
Manager

SES
Data Storage
Data
Preprocess
IoT IoT
IoT
IoT
IoT IoT

X86 – Rpi X86 – Rpi

Updates

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Update Methods
• On-line Update: The update runs on the current up and running
system
• Limited to non-intrusive changes → Designed for minor version updates (i.e. 15
GA → 15 Service Pack 1)
• Off-line Update: The update runs of a booted update system
• The to-be-updated system's file systems are mounted • Intrusive changes are
possible → Designed for major version updates (i.e. 12 → 15 GA / 15 Service Pack
1)
• Transactional Update: The update is applied into a new snapshot, the
running system is not touched
• Designed for maintenance updates, minor & major version updates
Transactional Update (Tech Preview in SP1)
• Consistent root filesystem
• Atomic RPM updates
• Reboot activates updates
• Automatic rollback available Btrfs
• Read-only root filesystem
• Use btrfs snapshots (read-only and
read-write) and snapper
• System configuration is handled with
overlayfs Availability
• Dedicated module and system role
Upgrade Paths
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 → 15 GA/SP1
• Boot Unified Installer (Off-line update)

• SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 → 15 GA/SP1

• Boot Unified Installer (Off-line update)
• Major changes require manual interaction
• SUSE recommendation: Full installation of 15 GA/SP1

• SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 GA → 15 SP1

• Run update from installed system (On-line update)
• Boot Unified Installer (Off-line update)
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Lifecycle – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

• Service Pack Overlap Support: 6 months

• Long Term Service Pack Support: up to 3 years after generic end of support
• Skip-a-service-pack support
• 13 Years total support lifecycle
Lifecycle: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15
Roadmap

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 SUSE Linux Enterprise – Base OS / Modules
2018 2019 2020 2021
15
12 SP4
15 SP1
12 SP5
15 SP2

15 12 SP4 15 SP1 12 SP5 15 SP2

Multimodal OS Delivery SUSE Base OS Base OS Base OS Base OS

Linux Enterprise Server and
Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server for SAP Applications +
Modules + Extensions
l General purpose OS versions
l Multiple use cases (physical,
virtual, containers)
l Full set of deployment,
l HW enablement via Kernel
version update, following
upstream
l Full enablement for Intel
AEP NV-DIMMs
l Update of the graphics
stack, not including Gnome
l HW enablement, including
driver updates. NVDIMM!
l Improve “system roles”
l Perform common criteria
certification and FIPS 140-2
validation
l Migration from SUSE Linux
Enterprise 11 SP4 to SUSE
l Last service pack for SUSE l Improve hardware
Linux Enterprise 12 enablement via Kernel
(tentative) version update
l Consolidation release l Update of the graphics
l Constant user land (minor stack (tentative)
version upgrades by need l XFS deduplication
or business case) l Transactional updates
Reuse kernel from SP4 +
l

Modules Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 very selected hardware

management options; Full Modules
Toolchain update Improve SAML2 single sign- innovations, including
control of the installed Toolchain update
l l
l
Refresh of module on framework graphic stack
packages, updates, upgrades Refresh of module
l

packages according to l Default to python3 l

l Continue major version separate lifecycle of l OpenJDK long-term version Modules packages according to
upgrade support including auto modules l SUSE Manager included in l Latest GCC version in
separate lifecycle of
upgrade Unified Installer the Toolchain module modules
Common Code Base
Architecture/Platform Support Modules
l Arch64, x86-64, ppc64le, s390x l Development module GCC
l Designed for physical, virtual, update
clouds & containers - Ready for l Development modules
IoT updates based on demand
l

No plans for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP6 Ease-of-use

* Information is forward looking and subject to change at any time. l Quarterly updates of
installation media
Significant Changes
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
• Kernel 4.12
• 389 Directory Server replaces OpenLDAP
• Salt management
• Python 3
• Chrony replaces ntpd
• Firewalld replaces SUSE Firewall2
• NGINX is fully supported
• OpenJDK 10
• Systemd - xinetd has been removed
• zypper search-packages
• RMT replaces SMT

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