Business value
SUSE and the SUSE Rancher offerings allow operations teams to focus on infrastructure, and give developers the freedom to deploy code as intended, which brings products to market faster while accelerating an organization’s digital transformation.
SUSE Rancher is a fundamental part of the complete software stack for teams that want to incorporate the use of containers. SUSE Rancher provides DevOps teams with the integrated tools to run containerized workloads while addressing the operational and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across a targeted infrastructure.
- Developers: SUSE Rancher makes it easy for developers to securely deploy containerized applications no matter where the Kubernetes infrastructure runs -– in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge. Using Helm or the App Catalog to deploy and manage applications across any or all these environments ensures multicluster consistency with a single deployment process.
- IT Operators: For IT operators, SUSE Rancher not only deploys and manages production-grade Kubernetes clusters from data center to cloud to the edge, it also unites them with centralized authentication, access control, and observability. SUSE Rancher streamlines cluster deployment on bare-metal or virtual machines and maintains them by using defined security policies.
With this increased consistency of the managed Kubernetes infrastructure clusters, organizations benefit from a higher level of the Cloud Native Computing model, where each layer relies only on the API and the version of the adjacent layer. For example:
- Compute platform: The compute platform uses the software applications mentioned in this section and the technology solutions with the server platforms offered by Dell Technologies, which provide alternatives for scale, cost-effectiveness, and performance options that could align with local IT platform preferences:
- Density-optimized: high performance and efficiency for big data and the most demanding workloads
- Mission-critical: intelligent systems that fuel your digital transformation in a world where time and data are the new currency, and business continuity is expected
- Composable: fully adaptable and ready for Hybrid-IT to future-proof your data center for today’s workloads and tomorrow’s disruptors
- Internet of Things (IoT): realize the potential of IoT to provide compute at the network edge
- Cloud: high-capacity, mass-compute open infrastructure with security and software to match