September 19, 2009

OS Appliances

Introduction to SUSE StudioWeb Application to build customizable virtual appliances

David Chuazhchua@gmail.comhttp://twitter.com/davidchua

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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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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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Agenda

What is SUSE Studio?

Whats the value created?

How is it all done?

Demo

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What is Studio?

Web-based appliance creator

Easy and fast

Community marketplace

Built upon KIWI CLI Interface

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Studio's Innards

Disk Image

VMWare Image

LiveCD/USB

Xen

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Traditional Installation

And probably another 50 pages more ...

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With Studio

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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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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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The architecture

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How is Studio Implemented

SUSE JeOS

Kiwi

Rails

KVM

libsatsolver

OpenID

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User appliances

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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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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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Demo

Create

Configure

Test

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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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