Build Your Own Software Appliances

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Skip PaulLinux Systems Engineerskip@novell.com

Atiq Adamjee Linux Systems Engineeratiq@novell.com

Agenda

SUSE® Appliance Toolkit Overview

SUSE Studio On-site Demo

Questions

Overview SUSE® Appliance Toolkit

Keeping the Momentum

54,280

250,364

Registered users are using SUSE Studio Online

Appliances have been built

ISVs are using SUSE Studio Online

SUSE Studio“a product of

the year”.

SUSE® Studio“The 10 Coolest

Open-Source Products Of

2009” ChannelWeb

SUSE Studio2010 Codie

Award Finalist.

What Are Software Appliances?

Systems with one task in mind: serving an application

Pre-configured disk image containing an application, middleware, database, and minimal operating system

Deploy directly on a server as a hard-drive image

Or as a virtual machine to be loaded on a hypervisor

The image has little "last mile" setup required and is a plug and play experience

Benefits of Software Appliances

Simplify demos and evaluations

Extend applications to the cloud

Applications do not need to be re-certified

Reduce development and support costs

Target Audiences

Enterprises ISVs

SUSE Appliance ProgramSUSE® Linux Enterprise

The SUSE® Appliance Toolkit

BuildManage

Maintain

+ Simplify Maintenance

+ Simplify Deployments

+ Streamline the OS

The SUSE Appliance Toolkit is a collection of tools designed to improve the efficiency of building, managing and maintaining software appliances.

The SUSE® Appliance Toolkit

Components

SUSE Studio Onsite

WebYaST

SUSE Lifecycle Management Server

BuildManageMaintain

SUSE® Studio

SUSE® Studio Online

Free hosted service that allows fast and easy creation and testing of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server based software appliances

SUSE® Studio Onsite

SUSE Studio“a product of

the year”.

SUSE Studio“The 10

Coolest Open-Source

Products Of 2009” ChannelWeb

Stand-alone version of SUSE Studio behind your firewall

Build appliances based on: SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS SUSE Linux Enterprise or openSUSE®

Supported formats: USB Stick/ hard disk image Live CD (.iso) VMware/Virtual Box (.vmdk) Xen Virtual Machine Soon: Hyper-V, OVF, EC2

SUSE® Life-cycle Management Server

SUSE® Lifecycle Management Server Core Features

• Unified update mechanism, which federates updates for all components of a software appliance

• Authentication, entitlement and access control to distribute updates

• Repository management, which stages repository support for quality assurance

• Management of essential customer data and interface to CRM systems

Other Management Options

• Use existing tools– Create images with SUSE® Studio that integrate with your

existing management environment by baking the management client into the build

• Subscription Management Tool– Mirror and push patches, patch staging, patch level reports,

“Sneaker-net” for disconnected environments, supportconfig proxy/management

http://www.novell.com/media/media.php?media=smt-sles-11-additional-value

• Novell® ZENworks® Linux Management– Push applications and data, policy-driven configuration,

inventory, reporting, remote control, web-based admin

WebYaST

WebYaSTOverview

WebYaST is a framework and a collection of modules providing a stylish, easy-to-use, and low-cost approach to packaging an appliance with the minimal configuration interface necessary for its set up.

WebYaSTWhat Is it?

WebYaST is a web based remote console plugging into a stateless HTTP REST interface exposed by SUSE® Linux Enterprise-based appliances.

Providing a subset of YaST configuration modules, WebYast delivers enough remote configuration to enable user control of an appliance's “black box” environment.

The WebYaST product is the module collection and framework supporting them.

WebYaSTModules

Initial configuration wizardTime, timezone, NTPStatus, soft-shutdown, rebootMonitoring (configurable)UpdateNetworkLicense/EULA and registrationUsersService start/stop/statusLog visualization

Questions?

SUSE Appliance ToolkitLearn about the fastest way to Build, Manage and Maintain new workloads! www.novell.com/toolkit

Try SUSE® Studio OnlineBuild an appliance with a few mouse clicks. Customize it to your heart's content, and share it with the world! http://susestudio.com/

DemosCheck out recorded demos. Search for “Studio”. http://www.novell.com/media/

Next Steps

Reach Out to Your Novell® Sales ContactAtiq Adamjee - atiq@novell.comSkip Paul – skip@novell.com

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