SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs • Hacker News Board

Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

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Post by merb » Wed, Jul 08, 2020, 11:10 PM UTC

smartbit wrote: post #85

bratao wrote: post #33

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One more good experience. I created an cluster of dedicated servers ( 64 cores, 6TB of SSD storage and 256 GB of RAM, 1 GPU) using Rancher, for about 250 Euros/Month. This would cost at least 2k in a cloud such as AWS. There is a post about how I did with persistent storage here ( https://medium.com/@bratao/state-of-persistent-storage-in-k8... ) It really transformed my company DevOps. I´m VERY happy. If you can, use…

Longhorn synchronously replicates the volume across multiple replicas stored on multiple nodes https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn At first look the numbers in the colourful table near the end, Piraeus/Linstor/DRBD seems 10x faster than Longhorn 0.8. The article goes into great depth of the (a)synchronous replication options of Piraeus, but doesn't mention that Longhorn always does synchronous replication. I wonder…

drbd is really really hard to use. (ceph aswell tough)

also performance is extremly dependant on so many factors which are not always given. i.e. drives, network, etc.

for some stuff even a distributed fs is enough, like glusterfs

Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

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Post by merb » Wed, Jul 08, 2020, 11:14 PM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #24

Congratulations! K3s is something that I think could be a big impactful product in the kubernetes space.

k3os aswell. but yeah k3s is really something that should be kept alive.

Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

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Post by athriren » Wed, Jul 08, 2020, 11:24 PM UTC

pelasaco wrote: post #97

I see it more as acqui-hire. SUSE was missing some savvy technologist in the VP Level.. Sheng_Liang[1] balances it back. Beside him all upper management are ex-SAP with boring strategy, no innovation.. Disclosure: I work for SUSE [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Liang

Are you saying the upper management of SUSE is boring or the upper management of Rancher is boring? It’s unclear from the wording.

Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

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Post by bg24 » Wed, Jul 08, 2020, 11:44 PM UTC

jacques_chester wrote: post #84

bg24 wrote: post #53

This is a good acquisition. I was thinking that AWS would acquire Rancher to make inroads into multi-cloud and hybrid kubernetes.

I'm doubtful. AWS has a case of not-invented-here syndrome that is so severe that it doesn't technically qualify as NIHS. For one thing, NIHS requires you to accept that there is such a place as "not here".

Agree. All the while other are happily studying the ideas/services from AWS, and building better experience.

Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

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Post by rossmohax » Wed, Jul 08, 2020, 11:54 PM UTC

justicezyx wrote: post #100

AlphaSite wrote: post #71

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Heltio or CoreOS both predate this.

Heltio AFAIK is mostly a educational and consulting business? They dont have a kubernetes product, right? CoreOS dont have a kubernetes product either, right?

CoreOS had Tectonic

Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

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Post by SEJeff » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 12:41 AM UTC

anthk wrote: post #30

mroche wrote: post #20

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> Redhat has utterly dominated North America nods head Yup, sounds about right. SUSE is used pretty widely used in the European financial sector, right? That’s what I remember hearing the most about it. EDIT: I’m referring to non-personal workloads, i.e. enterprise. Pretty much everything I’ve come across in a working environment has been Red Hat based, I’m not talking about personal local or VPS environments. Ubuntu…

SuSE is big on HPC and big beasts.

Redhat is bigger on both.

Scientific Linux, which was built exclusively for HPC, was based on CentOS.

Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

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Post by cpitman » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 12:47 AM UTC

justicezyx wrote: post #100

AlphaSite wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heltio or CoreOS both predate this.

Heltio AFAIK is mostly a educational and consulting business? They dont have a kubernetes product, right? CoreOS dont have a kubernetes product either, right?

I assume that was a typo for "Heptio", who were acquired by VMware in 2018.

Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

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Post by justicezyx » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 1:08 AM UTC

rossmohax wrote: post #125

justicezyx wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heltio AFAIK is mostly a educational and consulting business? They dont have a kubernetes product, right? CoreOS dont have a kubernetes product either, right?

CoreOS had Tectonic

Oh right, I forgot that. I think at the point they were acquired, Tectonic was at very early stage. I could be wrong.

Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

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Post by AlphaSite » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 1:26 AM UTC

justicezyx wrote: post #100

AlphaSite wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heltio or CoreOS both predate this.

Heltio AFAIK is mostly a educational and consulting business? They dont have a kubernetes product, right? CoreOS dont have a kubernetes product either, right?

Yes, Heptio, sorry.

Re: SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

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Post by metta2uall » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 1:31 AM UTC

This sounds really good. Rancher has some cool products but to be honest I've been uneasy about the link of their name to cattle farming. I hope they change the name and continue the focus on bringing more efficiency to Kubernetes. For example I don't think the kubelet of a brand-new almost empty Kubernetes cluster should frequently be using 4% of a CPU doing who-knows-what.. (I've tried profiling it but with little luck - most time seems to be on futexes [for go channels?], and there are also heaps of system calls to gather data from cgroups).