How to Maintain Software Appliances
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The document outlines the SUSE Appliance Toolkit, which simplifies the maintenance and deployment of software appliances for enterprises and ISVs. It emphasizes a model where vendors integrate appliances and updates, allowing customers to apply updates with minimal downtime and cost. The SUSE Life-Cycle Management Server offers automated delivery of OS and application updates, enhancing efficiency and reliability in software maintenance.
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- 1. How to Maintain Software Appliances Delivering World-class Maintenance on a Budget Michal Svec Federico Lucifredi Product Manager SUSE Linux Enterprise ® Product Manager SUSE Linux Enterprise Novell Novell [email protected] [email protected]
- 2. Agenda Overview Software Maintenance, Unplugged SUSE Life-cycle Management Server ® WebYaST Questions and Answers 2 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 4. The SUSE Appliance Toolkit ® + Streamline the OS + Simplify Deployments + Simplify Maintenance Build The SUSE Appliance Toolkit is a collection of tools designed to improve the efficiency of Manage building, managing and maintaining Maintain software appliances. 4 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 5. Target Audiences Enterprises ISVs SUSE Linux Enterprise ® SUSE Appliance Program ® 5 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 6. The SUSE Appliance Toolkit ® Components SUSE Studio Onsite WebYaST SUSE Life-cycle Build Management Server Manage Maintain 6 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 7. What's an Appliance? Application Configuration Appliance OS 7 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 9. Delivering Software Maintenance Customers needs: - Maintain secure environment - Insure uninterrupted business operations - Minimize downtime - Reduce cost - Minimize the vulnerability window Vendor needs: - Bound the cost of delivery (non-core task, no value add) - Maintain rock-solid reliability, or customer satisfaction suffers 9 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 10. Delivering Maintenance: Customer View How is this delivered? (traditional enterprise) - Vendor delivers patches (update stream) - Customer validates patch impact on test systems (integration testing) How is this delivered? (appliance model) - ISV integrates appliance - ISV integrates updates - Customer chooses downtime window, applies updates - One click! => ROI two-punch: customer saves initial integration cost, but also ongoing operational validation of the workload! 10 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 11. Delivering Maintenance: Vendor View How is this delivered? (without Appliance Toolkit) - Amorphous stream of updates -- Packages if Linux - CDs, reinstalls, tarballs and often much worse if small vendor - Good customer experience always very costly – Need expensive, non-core expertise – Even smallest distros need 10+ people to insure quality – Maintenance is a pitfall-ridden space – Adds nothing to vendor value, a net cost! – But failures are devastating to your business credibility => If you know how hard it is, you avoid it (small vendor) or simplify it (medium vendor or internal provider) at the detriment of service 11 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 12. Delivering Maintenance: Vendor View How is this delivered? (appliance model) - ISV Integrates appliance using SUSE Linux Enterprise platform ® - Studio and SLMS automatically generate update sets - ISV tests only full appliance – One version to test, not full matrix! – Integration testing cost collapsed from traditional model – Massive ROI – Yet improved user experience => If your customer's recurring operations embrace the appliance model, not just your deployment crew, the cost-benefit improves still 12 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 13. SUSE Life-cycle Management Server ®
- 14. SUSE Life-cycle Management Server ® Appliance Update Process 1 2 3 4 v2.1 App Developer KIWI SUSE Update SUSE server Studio v2.1 Middleware ISV SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Component Suppliers Appliance Integrator Customers 14 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 15. SUSE Life-cycle Management Server ® Overview An automated mechanism by which Novell will deliver ® OS updates to vendors so they can in turn deliver both application and OS updates to their customers in an efficient manner. Handles authentication, entitlement and access control required for appliance vendors to distribute updates to their customers. Ready to plug in to existing processes and tools, allowing for seamless integration with vendors environment. 15 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 16. SUSE Life-cycle Management Server ® Core Features Deliver updates from vendor and Novell to customers ® Customers use existing update stack for updates Automatic mirroring of updates Support for Content Distribution Networks Expose API allowing for integration with CRM Registration functionality 16 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 17. SUSE Life-cycle Management Server ® Update Work-flow KIWI Appliance Image SUSE Linux Enterprise Operating System Packages SUSE Studio Update Repository ISV Application In RPM format Synced when ISV ready Web Interface Customer servers SUSE Life-cycle Management running ISV appliances Server hosted by ISV 17 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 18. SUSE Life-cycle Management Server ® Advanced Features Dual system-partition configuration Web-based configuration and management RPM as primary software delivery method Component design, allows for flexibility Optional tooling, vendor can use other alternatives Available as part of SUSE Appliance Toolkit Available today 18 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 19. WebYaST
- 20. WebYaST Overview WebYaST is a framework and a collection of modules providing SUSE Linux Enterprise OEMs with a stylish, ® easy-to-use, and low-cost approach to packaging an appliance with the minimal configuration interface necessary for its set up. Objective: Bootstrap the creation of SLE appliances. Y 20 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 21. WebYaST Update View Customer triggers update deployment – one click [screenshot] Advanced interface also available [screenshot] Y 21 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
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