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ONLINE MEETINGS ONLY until further notice.
ONLINE session will use remote video software.
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TOPIC Update on SuSE by Michael Carrington

Including Rancher Labs acquistion (Kubernettes system) by SUSE Corp. and SuSE Storage update.

Rancher is a complete software stack for teams adopting containers.
It addresses the operational and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, while providing DevOps teams with integrated tools for running containerized workloads.

There's only one version of Rancher; it's 100% free and open-source software.

A fundamental difference between Kubernetes and Docker is that Kubernetes is meant to run across a cluster while Docker runs on a single node.
Kubernetes is more extensive than Docker Swarm and is meant to coordinate clusters of nodes at scale in production in an efficient manner.

Kubernetes contains powerful functionality for orchestrating applications and guaranteeing service availability.
Rancher adds a complete UI and workload management layer to Kubernetes, that simplifies adoption and integrates CI/CD as well as key open source projects

The Top Alternatives & Competitors to Rancher:
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) (173)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. (50)
Kubernetes. (48)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (31)
Docker
AWS Fargate. ...
Cloud Foundry. ...
Portainer. ...
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)
Cisco Container Platform
... ... ...

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EVERY MTNG:
The Saint Louis MO, STL Linux Users Group (STLLUG) meets monthly to talk about Linux. This GNU/Linux Users Group usually holds its meetings on the third Thursday of every month. Meetings are free and open to everyone.

We will open the remote session at about 6:00PM. At 6:45 PM we start with introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP segment. Then we will go into the presentation of our main topic, sometime around or after 7:00 PM.