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Love it! Personally i dont think the public offering has done them any good. They are unparalleled in the kubernetes space and im expecting much more awesome things to come. (and no, i dont simply mean clicky bunty rancher)

By now i am suggesting Suse products to all my clients with the guarantee that even if i get hit with a bus and will not return, there will always(!) be someone to support their software. They are for instance the only ones actually doing this.

Cloud times are shifting again, especially with machine learning and i could not be happier about it.

The fact alone that with windows 11 a lot of orgs have a LOT of compute simply being thrown out makes for excellent dev environments and local clusters

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Yes, we've been using MicroOS for years and never had any problems with it. It makes managing a k8s cluster on premise so easy

>They are for instance the only ones actually doing this.

And Red Hat isn't? What am I missing?

Red Hat has much less product on the market for this purpose and is nowhere near as complete as SUSE. OpenShift is powered by kubernetes. SUSEs solution IS kubernetes.

Furthermore, i think they have clearly demonstrated how they see things.

OpenShift is also just regular old Kubernetes.

Guys while I know that Redhat also contributes to SIGS for kubernetes, My point is that SUSE is just much more available.

This is especially true on the edge and unless you are a megacorp, i don't see anyone forking over money for the license. The open source offering is not to be used for production and simply as a testing ground for features that make it upstream... OKD, could have been a closer match to k3s in terms of cost but not necessarily simplicity and we are not even talking about how ready rke2 is.

SUSE's offerings, provide a balance of simplicity and enterprise features, making them compelling for SMEs. Here in Europe there is not even a question about it. Kubernetes is free and in the end of the day simply a wrapper of apis, which should not require licensing.

You do know red hat contributes far more to upstream kubernetes than suse/rancher don't you? You know they helped google open source it, don't you? Rancher certainly got the jump on red hat for lighter weight deployments, but to claim that it is more kubernetes than the red hat offering shows you don't actually understand what you're comparing.

yes im very well aware of that, but i am also very well aware that from an actual user point of view, SuSe is the much better choice. For everybody without unlimited credit cards, Suse is also the much better choice.

From the viewpoint of the average IT worker, Suse is also the much better choice!

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