Open source company SUSE holds its in-house exhibition at SUSECON Acquisition of observation service provider StackState announced. StackState specializes in collecting metrics and logs in Kubernetes clusters and thus supports administrators in troubleshooting.
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Goal: Rancher Prime as an all-in-one solution
To provide users with a solution under one roof, SUSE intends to integrate the StackState platform into its container management platform Rancher Prime. During the keynote on the first morning of SUSECON, SUSE CEO Dirk-Piet van Leeuwen also announced that he would publish the source code of StackState. IHe writes in a blog post about the acquisitionRancher Prime is well prepared for the integration of StackState so that users can quickly find their way around. StackState CEO Andreas Prins told C’T that the news about the new open source course has sparked a lot of excitement among the development teams.
Although StackState has been a proprietary product so far, open standards such as eBPF and Open Telemetry are an integral part of the platform’s observability toolbox, Prins assured when asked by C’T. If you want, you can also export the data, for example to run your own dashboard based on Prometheus and Grafana. There is no date yet for when Rancher Prime 3.1 with StackState integration will be generally available, but it is expected that the features will be activated for existing Rancher Prime customers this year. Anyone who uses the community version of Rancher should be able to work with StackState through the SaaS offer.
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AI Focus in Container Management Platforms
According to SUSE, among other things, StackState aims to help customers keep their AI workloads under control. Developers want to add additional functions to Rancher Prime in the upcoming version 3.1 to improve compatibility with AI workloads. These include, among other things, virtual cluster provisioning, resource optimization for GPUs and the integration of Kubeflow into application collections, a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes under the auspices of the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation).
The Kubernetes-based hypervisor Harvester in version 1.3.1 is expected to improve compatibility with vGPU and ARM architectures, both crucial resources for inference workloads. NewVector Prime 5.4 aims to display the results of pod and node scans directly in the Rancher Prime user interface and provide better protection against denial-of-service attacks. The developers have also integrated a new compliance reporting framework.
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