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SUSE Linux Enterprise Yaroslav Kornilov

Roadmap

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 Introducing the speaker

Yaroslav
Kornilov
Product Manager

ykornilov@suse.com

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 Agenda: 1. SUSE product portfolio

2. SUSE Linux Enterprise product family

3. SUSE Linux Enterprise 15

4. SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4

5. Outlook

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 SUSE Linux
Enterprise Family

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 Catalog SUSE Rancher Storage
Security The platform for managing all Kubernetes distributions Governance

Support & Services

Datacenter Edge Block Storage Container Security

Compliance SUSE Linux Enterprise Availability

Security The most adaptable Linux operating system Management Other Linux

SLE Desktop / POS SLES for SAP Applications SLE Micro

Linux SUSE Manager
SLE Server SLES for HPC SLE Extensions

Hybrid
Cloud
Infrastructure

Dev Datacenter Cloud Branch Edge

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Life Cycle
SUSE provides life cycle options to customers 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

depending on the customer specific needs SLE 11 GE EOL

SLE 12 SP4 SP5 GE

SLE 11 – LTSS phase is over
SLE 15 GA SP1 SP2 SP3
SP3 SP4 SP5 SP6 SP7
SLE 12 – general support, selected enablement
Next major D e veloping GA
codestream

GA = First release of code stream

SLE 15 – general support, active development GE = End of general support
LTSS = Long Term Service Pack support
• 13 years total lifecycle, 7 Service Packs (SP) EOL = End of life

• Service Pack Overlap Support: 6 months

• Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS): up to 3 years after end of general support
• Specific products can have longer overlapping support (e.g. SLES for SAP)
• See https://www.suse.com/lifecycle 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 2028 2030
SP7
SP6
SP5
SP4
SP3
SP2
SP1
SP0
SLES lifecycle, other products may
Contains forward looking statements have longer overlapping support
Subject to change
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SUSE Linux Enterprise 15: Release Cycle

Consolidation Release – odd versions Refresh Release – even versions

• Bug fixes and maintenance updates Same as with 'Consolidation', plus:

from previous releases • Kernel version bump
• Improvements of existing features • Various stack updates
• Selected new features • Major changes

SP1, SP3, SP5, SP7 SP2, SP4, SP6

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 Update and Upgrade Paths
Leap 15.3
Migration from one offering to the next:
• From openSUSE LEAP to SLES
• From SLES to SLES for SAP

Flexible Upgrades:
• Skip a Service Pack (inside of a code stream) SLES 15 SLES 15 SP1 SLES 15 SP2 SLES 15 SP3
• Migrate from a variety of products to the latest
release (LTSS may be required)

SLES 12 SLES 12 SP1 SLES 12 SP2 SLES 12 SP3 SLES 12 SP4 SLES 12 SP5

Online or offline upgrade

Only offline upgrade
LTSS required in
SLES 11 SP4 some cases

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Beta Program
SUSE Beta Program https://www.suse.com/betaprogram
• Early access to pre-release products
• Involvement in development cycle
• The ability to test the product in your environment before the official release
• Resulting knowledge gained from participating in the Beta Program
• More stable code due to multiple individuals testing in many different environments
• Contact with the SUSE Engineering and Product Management
• Base container images are now included in the Beta Program
• Improved documentation

Partner & Public Beta Program

→ Partners get access to all milestones
→ Public Beta participants get access to selected milestones
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 SUSE Linux
Enterprise 15

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 Multimodal
Provide a common code base for traditional and
agile data center

SUSE Linux Ease of Use

Enterprise 15: Easily search, install, and use packages across the
SUSE universe

Themes
Unified Installer
Install all SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 products from one
single medium

Community to Enterprise
Migrate openSUSE Leap in place to SUSE Linux
Enterprise

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Modules And Products
How a Product is Build

SUSE Linux Enterprise Pool of

“Everything is a module” High Availability Modules
Modules
High
• form products
Product Availability
• identify products Container Python3
• provide additional functionality (consists of modules)
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server
Public
...
Cloud
Server
Legacy
Apps

Common Code SUSE Linux Enterprise

Base Modules Desktop
Module
Base Desktop
...
System Apps Workstation

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Types of Modules and Repositories (SLE 15)
SU SE Product Deliveries Non-SUSE*

SU SE Linux E xt ensions Developers non-L3 Migration St able Agile Community 3 rd Party

E nt erprise w it h s eparate Supported from older
Bas e s ubscription versions

E xample Basesystem, High Developers Workstation Legacy Web and Containers, PackageHub NVidia, ...
Modules Server- Availability, Module Extension Scripting Public Cloud
Applications, Live Patching
Desktop-
Applications

Support L3 L3 L3 L2 L3 L3 L3 Community 3rd Party

Life Cycle Yearly SPs Yearly SPs Yearly SPs Yearly SPs Life cycle per Yearly SPs Following Community 3rd Party
package Community As
Appropriate

LTSS Yes Yes Yes** No Yes Yes Yes No No

available?

* SUSE Product Deliveries do not depend on Non-SUSE modules

** SUSE ships two GCC versions: one “System GCC“ with LTSS as part of the SLES product, and one “Yearly GCC“ without LTSS in the Developers Module.

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Deliverables for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15

Media/Channels Target scenarios

• Unified Installer • Physical
• Offline installation medium • Virtual host
• Online installation & update channels • Virtual guest
• VM (JeOS) images • Containers
• Base container images • Public cloud
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) • Amazon EC2
• Refresh: quarterly updates • Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud
Architectures • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• AMD64 / Intel 64 • Alibaba Cloud
• Arm • Private cloud
• IBM Power • Hybrid cloud environments
• IBM Z and LinuxOne

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Media and Unified Installer

Easier handling of online vs. offline installation

• Both “Installer Media” and “Packages Media” installable starting with 15 SP2
• Clearer naming to distinguish online and offline media
• No need to download both media any longer

SLE-15-SP4-Online-*
• Online installations
• Requires connection to RMT or SCC

SLE-15-SP4-Full-*
• Contains all modules, no Internet connection required

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Quarterly Updates

Merge of released updates

• Convenient access to update packages
• No need to download updates, saves bandwidth

Checkpointing – New Installations

• Setup new systems with a recent, up-to-date, well known state

Checkpointing – Existing Installations

• Update systems to a well known state

Silver image provided by SUSE

Fine granular staging by SUSE Manager

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Security Certifications
Program What is it about? SUSE Body
• Whole system, including
installation
Common “How can I be sure to get the • SUSE processes BSI
Criteria security I need?” • SUSE IT environment NIAP
• SUSE physical environment

“Are my crypto algorithms • Crypto Libraries

FIPS 140-3 Random number generators NIST
conforming to the standard?” •

• Needs to look at the whole

“I need a document formalizing a system following the questions /
STIG DISA
hardening guide!“ guidelines of the DISA

Affects more than the OS or

“I need to manage financial data
•

PCI DSS (e.g. credit cards)!“

software: hardware, datacenter, SSC
...

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 Community to
Enterprise

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The openSUSE/SUSE Family

• Several thousand
• >8000 packages • Over 6000 packages packages
• Community • Community
developed developed SUSE Linux Enterprise
• Rolling updates

Shared Core • Enterprise

packages
• Rolling base • Stable base system • SUSE supported
system • Regular updates

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Community to Enterprise and Back

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Community to Enterprise
Bringing Two Worlds Closer Together
Bringing more closely together...
... developer communities
Focus on openSUSE Leap as a development
platform for communities and industry partners
… user communities
Leverage the benefits of both a stable enterprise
code base and the speed of community
contributions
… the code bases of openSUSE Leap and SUSE
Linux Enterprise
Share sources, offer the SUSE Linux Enterprise
binaries for inclusion in openSUSE Leap
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Three step approach
Merge the code bases
for the intersection of openSUSE Leap 15.2 and
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 as much as possible
without loss of functionality or stability
Create an openSUSE flavor using SLE binaries
in parallel to classic openSUSE Leap
Build openSUSE Leap 15.3
with SLE binaries included by default
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Community to Enterprise
Accellerate Digital Transformation
Engage in user driven innovation
Community users develop, support, and maintain
12,779 community packages at SUSE PackageHub
RabbitMQ
Hub of user driven innovation
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Continue the innovation in your enterprise
Use community packages in your enterprise environment
RabbitMQ from PackageHub is now available since 15 SP2,
fully supported
Migrate to fully supported distro. Move from community to
enterprise with in-place migration from openSUSE Leap to
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Use same build tools. Standard open source SUSE tools are
used for both openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server
Dev & Ops coordinate with ease. Development / Projects
use community distribution. Operations run an enterprise
environment
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 SUSE Linux
Enterprise 15 SP4
and beyond

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SUSE Linux
Enterprise 15 SP4
Continue to improve existing
features and functionality
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Feature Requests
Feature submit deadline: 2021-06-25
Code drop deadline: 2021-10-14
Timeframe
FCS planned for Mid 2022
Beta phase started end of November 2021
RC phase started end of March 2022
Scope
New kernel (5.14)
Major components updates (Mesa, GNOME,...)
Enhancements of existing features
Bugfixes
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SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4
Powering the world’s most trusted and secure open source infrastructures

Industry’s Most Secure Maximize Developer Drive hardware and

Enterprise Linux OS Agility & Productivity cloud innovation
SLES 15 SP4 is the only Our Base Container SLE 15 SP4 supports for the
Linux distribution to have Images (SLE BCI) give latest chip set innovations
a SLSA Level 4 Compliant developers the freedom from Intel, AMD, and Arm;
Software Supply Chain to build, share and run the latest hardware
and NIAP Product their applications platforms from HPE, Dell,
Compliance. It also anywhere. Leverage SLE’s Fujitsu, NVIDIA, IBM Z &
includes Userspace Live market-leading security, POWER; and the latest
Patching and Confidential reliability and cloud capabilities AWS,
VMs for added performance in your app Google Cloud, and
enterprise-grade whether you’re a Microsoft Azure.
assurance and security. customer or not.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4
Selected technical highlights

Further reduced disruption of security updates

• User-space live patching as Technology Preview
• Live Patching for glibc and openssl to further reduce the amount of required reboots
Enhanced set of the Base Container Images
• Providing latest versions of the development stacks
NVMe over TCP support
• Support for the next generation of the TCP protocol
Updates of the key components
• Bringing features, enhancements and major fixes in the system tools For more details
look for this
Updates for developers session:
• Fresh releases of programming language stacks
• Simplifies application development and collaboration with upstream FUT-1132
SLE 15 SP4 –
What's Coming

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 Feature Requests
Feature submit deadline: TBD
Code drop deadline: TBD
SUSE Linux
Enterprise 15 SP5 Timeframe
FCS planned for Mid 2023
Beta phase starts in November 2022
RC phase starts in March 2023
Continue to improve existing
features and functionality Scope
Updates of selected components
Selected enhancements and features
Bugfixes

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Life Cycle
SUSE provides life cycle options to customers 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

depending on the customer specific needs SLE 11 GE EOL

SLE 12 SP4 SP5 GE

SLE 11 – LTSS phase is over
SLE 15 GA SP1 SP2 SP3
SP3 SP4 SP5 SP6 SP7
SLE 12 – general support, selected enablement
Next major D e veloping GA
codestream

GA = First release of code stream

SLE 15 – general support, active development GE = End of general support
LTSSFor more details look
= Long Term Service Pack support
• 13 years total lifecycle, 7 Service Packs (SP) EOL = End of life
for this session:
• Service Pack Overlap Support: 6 months
• Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS): up to 3 years after end of general support FUT-1157
• Specific products can have longer overlapping support (e.g. SLES for SAP) Business Critical
Linux Next
• See https://www.suse.com/lifecycle 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 2028 2030
Generation
SP7
SP6
SP5
SP4
SP3
SP2
SP1
SP0
SLES lifecycle, other products may
Contains forward looking statements have longer overlapping support
Subject to change
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Further information
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4

Release Notes
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes

Beta Program
https://www.suse.com/betaprogram

Product info
https://www.suse.com/products

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