SUSE, which last year the status of an independent company, about buying a company , Operating System for isolated containers, distributed storage , Kubernetes distributions (Rancher Kubernetes Engine) and (Lightweight Kubernetes), as well as a toolkit for managing container infrastructure based on Kubernetes.
Details of the deal were not disclosed, but according to unofficial the transaction amount ranged from 600 to 700 million dollars. A detailed plan for integrating Rancher Labs technologies into SUSE products will be released following regulatory approval of the transaction. that the business model will remain the same and continue to be built around the development of completely open source software and not being tied to one vendor. Rancher products will continue to support multiple operating systems and Kubernetes distributions, including Google GKE, Amazon EKS, Microsoft AKS, and Gardener.
Recall that Rancher Labs several notable Citrix developers and former executives . The RancherOS code is written in the Go language and under the Apache license. RancherOS provides a minimal bundle that only includes the components needed to run isolated containers. The update is performed atomically at the level of replacing entire containers. According to the tasks to be solved, the system resembles projects и , but differs from the systemd system manager in favor of its own init system, built directly on top of the Docker toolkit.
Source: opennet.ru