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SUSE acquires Kubernetes management platform Rancher Labs

46 points by theBashShell 6y ago

alexellisuk 6y ago
Pretty amazing and unexpected news. Here's the reaction from their community on Slack and a Twitter thread if anyone wants to comment there -> https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1280854524148752385?s=20 https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1280854524148752385?s... I've worked a fair amount with Rancher's OSS tooling like remotedialer and k3s - a big fan of it and went on to produce https://k3sup.dev/ https://k3sup.dev/ Hoping that k3s will continue to exist and be invested in after the SuSE acquisition.
andrenth 6y ago
I wonder if this could mean a RancherOS revival. It's a really interesting distribution. It could be SUSE's CoreOS, but that's probably wishful thinking...
- BossingAround 6y ago
  I think SUSE's CoreOS might be close enough. What do you think CoreOS did for Red Hat? Is there a writeup on that I could read?
  - SEJeff 6y ago
    Redhat more or less tossed their Atomic distribution in the bin and replaced it with Redhat CoreOS, which is all of the tech from CoreOS but built ontop of the redhat package repository. The upstream is Fedora CoreOS: https://getfedora.org/en/coreos?stream=stable https://getfedora.org/en/coreos?stream=stable
  - andrenth 6y ago
    I'm not sure how impactful CoreOS has been for RedHat (not a user)... I just meant that it would be nice if RancherOS or something based on its ideas became SUSE's "distribution for containers".
  - ofrzeta 6y ago
    Much of CoreOS has become the base for OpenShift 4. It's now called RHCOS (Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS ) and is the base host operating system for OpenShift. Also it's using CoreOS Ignition for installation.
BossingAround 6y ago
With no disrespect to SUSE, it's great to see them doing something to stay relevant. Subjectively, it feels like majority of their strategy was to stay somewhat compatible with Red Hat and benefit from a lot of their work. That's perfectly fine, but doesn't win you a lot of customers. I really want to see SUSE thrive, and this seems like a great move.
ciguy 6y ago
This is great. I've always felt that Rancher was underappreciated in the DevOps world probably because it's deceptively simple and easy to use and we tend to gravitate to complexity. I know a number of companies that have switched to it after trying to roll their own Kube management unsuccessfully.
- jacques_chester 6y ago
  Rancher has been a strong up-and-comer. I'd fully expected them to be snapped up by one of the hyperscalers. SUSE were smart to grab them before they became overpriced. Disclosure: I work for VMware, which competes with Rancher in some areas.
merricksb 6y ago
Another version of this story already top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769563

46 points by theBashShell 6y ago

Pretty amazing and unexpected news. Here's the reaction from their community on Slack and a Twitter thread if anyone wants to comment there -> https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1280854524148752385?s=20 https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1280854524148752385?s... I've worked a fair amount with Rancher's OSS tooling like remotedialer and k3s - a big fan of it and went on to produce https://k3sup.dev/ https://k3sup.dev/ Hoping that k3s will continue to exist and be invested in after the SuSE acquisition.

andrenth 6y ago

I wonder if this could mean a RancherOS revival. It's a really interesting distribution. It could be SUSE's CoreOS, but that's probably wishful thinking...

BossingAround 6y ago
I think SUSE's CoreOS might be close enough. What do you think CoreOS did for Red Hat? Is there a writeup on that I could read?
- SEJeff 6y ago
  Redhat more or less tossed their Atomic distribution in the bin and replaced it with Redhat CoreOS, which is all of the tech from CoreOS but built ontop of the redhat package repository. The upstream is Fedora CoreOS: https://getfedora.org/en/coreos?stream=stable https://getfedora.org/en/coreos?stream=stable
- andrenth 6y ago
  I'm not sure how impactful CoreOS has been for RedHat (not a user)... I just meant that it would be nice if RancherOS or something based on its ideas became SUSE's "distribution for containers".
- ofrzeta 6y ago
  Much of CoreOS has become the base for OpenShift 4. It's now called RHCOS (Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS ) and is the base host operating system for OpenShift. Also it's using CoreOS Ignition for installation.

BossingAround 6y ago

With no disrespect to SUSE, it's great to see them doing something to stay relevant. Subjectively, it feels like majority of their strategy was to stay somewhat compatible with Red Hat and benefit from a lot of their work. That's perfectly fine, but doesn't win you a lot of customers. I really want to see SUSE thrive, and this seems like a great move.

ciguy 6y ago

This is great. I've always felt that Rancher was underappreciated in the DevOps world probably because it's deceptively simple and easy to use and we tend to gravitate to complexity. I know a number of companies that have switched to it after trying to roll their own Kube management unsuccessfully.

jacques_chester 6y ago
Rancher has been a strong up-and-comer. I'd fully expected them to be snapped up by one of the hyperscalers. SUSE were smart to grab them before they became overpriced. Disclosure: I work for VMware, which competes with Rancher in some areas.

merricksb 6y ago

Another version of this story already top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769563