Platforms Copyright © SUSE 2022 3 1 Executive Summary Organizations modernizing their infrastructure continue to choose cloud-based technologies to power their digital transformation. As they User Management: best-practice security policy enforcement and advanced user management on any infrastructure • Access to Shared Tools and Services: a high level of reliability with easy, consistent implementing best practice security policy enforcement and advanced user management on any infrastructure. Feature SUSE Rancher OpenShift Tanzu Anthos Active Directory and LDAP Support 4

How Rancher Extends Kubernetes for User-Friendly Container Management ............14 2.4.1 Infrastructure Visibility ................................................................................. Docker Swarm for container orchestration, and allows teams to transparently view and manage the infrastructure and containers supporting their applications. Rancher provides built-in authentication, networking added and Rancher then provides complete visibility for both developer and operations teams into infrastructure and applications. Additionally, Rancher provides an application catalog with templates to

system support All major Linux operating systems supported Coupled to Red Hat underlying infrastructure, RHCOS and RHEL All major Linux operating systems supported Deployment on physical machines Yes Yes Yes Trusted Cloud Yes Yes Yes 6 Certification Kubernetes-native No change to Kubernetes code Deep customization Official Kubernetes distribution, RKE, recommended Product Features Product Jenkins pipelines supported with built-in graphical editing panels Code scanning Quick integration of SonarQube for static code analysis supported and analysis results available on the UI Manual

PowerFlex product overview PowerFlex is a software-defined infrastructure platform that is built to reduce operational and infrastructure complexity. PowerFlex empowers organizations to move faster by with a unified underlying infrastructure platform and management. It can also support heterogeneous workloads with varying requirements on a flexible shared infrastructure platform and modernize your capabilities with PowerFlex Manager REST APIs and custom Ansible modules to integrate with your infrastructure, application, and DevOps workflows. PowerFlex Manager enables automated deployments and expansions

Security, Scheduling, Automation, etc? 6 Why Kubernetes ? Common compute platform across any infrastructure DEV DATA CENTER CLOUD BRANCH 5G / EDGE ✔ Common API & Packaging ✔ Health Checks/HA ✔ ✔ Networking ✔ RBAC & Access Control Common compute platform across any infrastructure & a consistent set of infrastructure capabilities Kubernetes architecture ● Controlplane: Manages the cluster CIS Benchmarking Monitoring & Logging Centralized Audit Simplified Cluster Operations & Infrastructure Management (Run & Manage) GitOps Continuous Delivery Cluster Templates & Config Enforcement

Copyright © SUSE 2021 Powering Innovation With Leadership in Linux & Kubernetes Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Dev Datacenter Branch Cloud Edge Support & Services Catalog Security Storage Governance 5 Source: IDC Drivers and Inhibitors Driver: Public Cloud Adoption “Eventually, container infrastructure software as a service may become an expected functionality” Revenue Growth 2022 to 2025 and professional services 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 2022 2023 2024 2025 Worldwide Container Infrastructure Software Revenue ($M), 2022-2025 Aaron’s Anecdote In my prior life as a product manager for

distributed Kubernetes clusters. In both cases, Contrail works as an integrated component of your infrastructure by watching where workloads are instantiated and connecting those workloads to the appropriate exporters to provide an industry-standard way for you to monitor and analyze your network and network infrastructure. Information collected includes logs, metrics, status' of various component, and flows. Packaged installed, CN2 components work seamlessly with Kubernetes components to provide the networking infrastructure. The Contrail controller is constantly watching and reacting to cluster events as they occur

Reference Ubuntu 18.04 LTS cloud-config: The reference cloud-config is generally used in cloud infrastructure environments to allow for configuration management of compute instances. The reference config

Reference Ubuntu 18.04 LTS cloud-config: The reference cloud-config is generally used in cloud infrastructure environments to allow for configuration management of compute instances. The reference config

Rationale Node drivers are used to provision compute nodes in various cloud providers and local IaaS infrastructure. For convenience, popular cloud providers are enabled by default. If the organization does not