A brief introduction to SUSEStudio.com at Software Freedom Day \'09 (Singapore)

1. OS Appliances
Introduction to SUSE Studio
Web Application to build customizable virtual appliances
David Chua
zhchua@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/davidchua
September 19, 2009

2. Background
David Chua
- Currently a 3rd year student in School of Information Systems, SMU
- Just finished a 3 month internship with Novell working on
SUSEStudio
- Spent a month in SUSE Linux Labs at Nuremberg
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3. The Team
- Based in Nuremberg, Germany at SUSE Linux Labs
- Officially called the CTSO Incubation Team
- Small handpicked team by the CTSO to work on
anything! (Like a startup!)
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4. Agenda
What is SUSE Studio?
Whats the value created?
How is it all done?
Demo
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5. What is Studio?
Web-based appliance creator
Easy and fast
Community marketplace
Built upon KIWI CLI Interface
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6. Studio's Innards
Disk Image
VMWare Image
LiveCD/USB
Xen
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7. Traditional Installation
And probably another 50 pages more ...
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8. With Studio
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9. What else?
Save valuable amount of time!
Makes application support a breeze!
- Just request for the image and you're ready to figure out the
problem!
Application developers can easily package their apps with
the operating system and distribute multiple versions
Noticed a trend of thin-clients
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10. SUSE Studio 1.0 Features
VMWare, Xen, ISO, and disk image output
“Testdrive” integrated testing and tweaking
SLE10/SLE11 and openSUSE 11.1 base system
Support for 32- and 64-bit x86 architecture
Allowing RPM uploading
API for remote, scripted use
Kiwi export
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11. The architecture
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12. How is Studio Implemented
SUSE JeOS
Kiwi
Rails
KVM
libsatsolver
OpenID
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13. User appliances
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14. Where else
Live CDs, DVDs (Mono)
Live USB sticks (openSUSE with KDE 4.2)
Demo CDs (Kraft)
Server appliances (LAMP server)
Installation images for specific hardware (Eee
PC/Moblin)
Customized distribution (Grandma's openSUSE)
Specially targeted distributions (Edu-CD)
Software developers & ISV appliances (POS)
Conference CDs (FOSDEM presentations)
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15. Public Feedback!
Cnet - “Novell makes Linux easy with SUSE Studio”
InformationWeek - “SUSE's Amazing Software Vending
Machine”
ZDNet - “It [SUSE Studio] may be the most important
thing Novell has done for software shops in decades”
Many more online ...
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16. Demo
Create
Configure
Test
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17. More Info
http://susestudio.com
Mailing list: studio-users@listx.novell.com
IRC: #susestudio on freenode
Twitter: @susestudio
Get an account FREE at http://susestudio.com
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