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By: Robert Schweikert

September 26, 2024 11:28 am

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Long Term Service Pack Support for PAYG Instances Simplified

Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) is an add-on product for SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions that affords the extension of support for Service Packs (SPs) for up to 3 years. Until now getting an add-on product such as LTSS and applying it to Pay As You Go (PAYG) instances was only possible with some business […]

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By: Peter Smails

September 13, 2024 7:16 pm

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SUSE Recognized as a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

How flexibility and choice power customer success At SUSE, we are thrilled to announce that Gartner, Inc., has positioned us in the Leaders’ quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Container Management” for our Rancher Prime product. This recognition is more than an accolade–it's a validation of our commitment to driving customer success. For […]

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By: Nikolay Borisov

September 4, 2024 6:26 pm

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The curious case of a missing CPUID flag, Part 2

Continuing where we left off in the last installment, I turned my eye toward the microcode warnings in the VM. They seemed really strange because the machine now clearly had an updated microcode, and the host was correctly reporting the necessary flag, yet the VM wasn't able to recognize it. What was more puzzling was […]

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By: Silvio Moioli

September 4, 2024 5:55 pm

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HTTP/2: Enhancing Web Application Performance, Including Rancher

Introduction The evolution of web technologies has always aimed to enhance security, user experience and application performance. A significant step in this direction was the introduction of HTTP/2, the second major revision of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which governs how information is transmitted to and from browsers. Developed primarily to address the limitations of HTTP/1.[…]

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By: Thomas Schlosser

August 13, 2024 1:21 pm

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Gain experience in monitoring your SAP environment

Our Best Practice Paper Infrastructure monitoring for SAP Systems does a really good job to get detailed information about how to install and customize SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications to monitor metrics. It provide a lot of insights that can help increase uptime of critical SAP applications.     For people […]

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By: Nikolay Borisov

August 2, 2024 7:33 pm

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The Curious Case of a Missing CPUID Flag

Recently I was referred to a bug in one of our SLE kernels that manifested in the following warning being printed in dmesg, on a virtualized guest:     Subsequently it was reported that the same warning manifests on the host machine, where the guest VM was run. What those warnings actually mean […]

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By: Ted Jones

July 26, 2024 9:20 pm

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Options for Running Rancher on AWS

AWS is a leading cloud provider and has many shared customers with SUSE. Understanding how Rancher can be leveraged on AWS is a common question asked by our mutual customers as well as new customers just beginning their cloud and container journey. Like all SUSE solutions, Rancher is fully open-sourced and available to use for […]

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By: Stacey Miller

July 10, 2024 7:01 pm

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The SUSE Liberty Linux Packages: Which Support Option is Right for You?

If you have been using CentOS for your business, you are painfully aware that you no longer can get the trusted support and security patches that you once depended on. And if you’ve been using Linux for any length of time, you know support patches are released frequently. For example, at SUSE, we release […]

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By: Robert Schweikert

July 10, 2024 3:22 pm

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Image Changes in AWS EC2 for IMDS Access

In 2019 AWS EC2 introduced the Instance Metadata Service v2 (IMDSv2) protocol to enhance security when accessing the metadata for an instance in EC2. Since then a lot of effort has been made to move everything that depends on IMDS to use the v2 protocol. The AMI creation process also has a setting to make […]

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