The SUSE Appliance Toolkit provides tools for easily building, managing, and maintaining software appliances. It includes SUSE Studio for a web-based appliance builder, WebYaST for appliance configuration and management, and a Lifecycle Management Server for unified updating of appliance components. The toolkit addresses the complexity of software deployments and aims to reduce maintenance costs while improving efficiency.

1. SUSE Appliance Toolkit
Project Overview
by
Eduard Antsupov Dmitry Gryshchenko
indevelope@gmail.com and ossir74@gmail.com

2. Software Appliances

3. What's a problem?
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6. Old way
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7. New way
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8. FAIL
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9. Appliance Toolkit

10. SUSE Appliance Toolkit:
Build Manage Maintain
Components:
• SUSE Studio Onsite
• WebYaST
• SUSE Lifecycle Management Server
• KIWI Support
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11. SUSE Studio

12. SUSE Studio
• SUSE Studio is a simple and fast appliance
builder.
• It provides an easy to use, web-based user
interface.
• Online Testdrive.
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13. SUSE Studio(base templates)
•OpenSUSE 11.2 •SUSE Linux Enterprise 10
• JeOS(just enough OS) • Server
• Server • Gnome Desktop
• Minimal X • KDE3 Desktop
• Gnome Desktop
• KDE4 Desktop
•SUSE Linux Enterprise 11
• JeOS
• Server
• Gnome desktop
• KDE4 desktop
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14. Start
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21. WebYaST

22. YaST
YaST is the installation program used by SUSE
Linux™ to install Linux on a system and to
administer this installed system thereafter.
The development started in January 1995. YaST
was written in C++ with a ncurses GUI by Thoamas
Fehr and Michael Andres.
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23. YaST interface
Testing
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24. YaST interface
Testing
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25. WebYaST modules
•Initial configuration wizard
•Date and Time, NTP
•Status, soft-shutdown, reboot
•Monitoring(configurable)
•Update
•Network
•Firewall
•License/EULA and registration
•Users
•Service start/stop/status
•Log visualization
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26. WebYaST screenshot
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28. Lifecycle Management Server

29. SUSE Lifecycle Management
Server
Core features:
• Unified update mechanism, which federates updates
for all components of a software appliance.
• Authentication, entitlement and access control to
distribute updates.
• Repository management, which stages repository
support for quality assurance.
• Management of essential customer data and
interface to CRM interfaces.
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30. Conclusion
• Reduce the complexity of software deployments
• Reduce the maintenance and support costs.
• Improve the efficiency of deploying and
maintaining applications in physical, virtual and
cloud environments.
• Appliance Toolkit makes building, updating and
configuring appliances fast and easy
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31. Try it today!
http://susestudio.com/
http://opensuse.org/
http://novell.com/

32. Thanks a lot! Questions?

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