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They work on the core container engine stuff. Aleksa Sarai (who posts in here every once in a while as "cyphar") is the maintainer of runC, which is core to mos

They work on the core container engine stuff. Aleksa Sarai (who posts in here every once in a while as "cyphar") is the maintainer of runC, which is core to most popular container runtimes (containerd/docker, podman, cri-o/kubernetes, etc.). They also work on building a platform for trivially deploying and scaling Kubernetes within openSUSE as Kubic[1]. SUSE has a variant of this as the SUSE CaaS platform[2] ("container as a service" platform) product. Kubic is analogous to Fedora CoreOS[3], while CaaSP is similar to RHEL CoreOS that's part of OpenShift[4]. [1]: https://kubic.opensuse.org/ https://kubic.opensuse.org/ [2]: https://www.suse.com/products/caas-platform/ https://www.suse.com/products/caas-platform/ [3]: https://coreos.fedoraproject.org/ https://coreos.fedoraproject.org/ [4]: https://blog.openshift.com/openshift-4-install-experience/ https://blog.openshift.com/openshift-4-install-experience/

trpc 8y ago
thank you, never heard of Kubic until now
cyphar 8y ago
In addition to all of the container work we do, we also still maintain a distribution and do a tonne of upstream work. While people seem to have forgotten about the purpose of distributions with the whole container thing, they still provide a few things: * Continued upstream development of core system software. * A host system that is stable and up-to-date (which you need to run your container manager). * Container images which have up-to-date software, timely security patches, and reasonable security policies. Distributions are the only members of the ecosystem which actually solve these problems in any meaningful way. It's a shame that we seem to be boring (or even vestigial) at this point despite all of this new software still requiring our work in order to actually run.
rmk2 8y ago
Richard Brown gave two talks at FOSDEM 2019 about Kubic, as well: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/speaker/richard_brown/ https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/speaker/richard_brown/

trpc 8y ago

thank you, never heard of Kubic until now

cyphar 8y ago

In addition to all of the container work we do, we also still maintain a distribution and do a tonne of upstream work. While people seem to have forgotten about the purpose of distributions with the whole container thing, they still provide a few things: * Continued upstream development of core system software. * A host system that is stable and up-to-date (which you need to run your container manager). * Container images which have up-to-date software, timely security patches, and reasonable security policies. Distributions are the only members of the ecosystem which actually solve these problems in any meaningful way. It's a shame that we seem to be boring (or even vestigial) at this point despite all of this new software still requiring our work in order to actually run.

rmk2 8y ago

Richard Brown gave two talks at FOSDEM 2019 about Kubic, as well: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/speaker/richard_brown/ https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/speaker/richard_brown/