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Build Your Own Software Appliances Skip Paul Linux Systems Engineer [email protected] Atiq Adamjee Linux Systems Engineer [email protected]
Build Your Own Software Appliances
Skip PaulLinux Systems [email protected]
Atiq Adamjee Linux Systems [email protected]
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Agenda
SUSE® Appliance Toolkit Overview
SUSE Studio On-site Demo
Questions
Overview SUSE® Appliance Toolkit
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Keeping the Momentum
54,280
250,364
4,405
Registered users are using SUSE Studio Online
Appliances have been built
ISVs are using SUSE Studio Online
SUSE Studio“a product of
the year”.
eWeek
SUSE® Studio“The 10 Coolest
Open-Source Products Of
2009” ChannelWeb
SUSE Studio2010 Codie
Award Finalist.
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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
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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
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Target Audiences
Enterprises ISVs
SUSE Appliance ProgramSUSE® Linux Enterprise
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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.
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The SUSE® Appliance Toolkit
Components
SUSE Studio Onsite
WebYaST
SUSE Lifecycle Management Server
BuildManageMaintain
SUSE® Studio
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SUSE® Studio Online
Free hosted service that allows fast and easy creation and testing of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server based software appliances
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SUSE® Studio Onsite
SUSE Studio“a product of
the year”.
eWeek
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
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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
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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
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• Novell® ZENworks® Linux Management– Push applications and data, policy-driven configuration,
inventory, reporting, remote control, web-based admin
WebYaST
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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.
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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.
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WebYaSTModules
Initial configuration wizardTime, timezone, NTPStatus, soft-shutdown, rebootMonitoring (configurable)UpdateNetworkLicense/EULA and registrationUsersService start/stop/statusLog visualization
Demo
Questions?
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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 - [email protected] Paul – [email protected]
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