Hi, during the last weeks, there were many discussions on many levels how to clearly position MicroOS, Kubic and Tumbleweed and how to differentiate between them: how do they belong together, what are the differences? One big problem was especially, to differentiate between MicroOS and Kubic and make clear, what is what. Today this is a big mix with no clear definition. Last week a bigger round was sitting together and tried to define what this distribution variants are. The result is not a change in strategy or technology, it's only about defining this clearly. Of course there will be one change, but this will be something new, nobody who is using Kubic or Tumbleweed today will see a change. So as result we did come up with three distribution Variants: 1. openSUSE MicroOS: This is a new installation media, which should help to clearly define MicroOS. 2. openSUSE Kubic: more or less the same as today. 3. openSUSE Tumbleweed as of today. openSUSE MicroOS ---------------- * Single Service/Single purpose OS optimized for Containers * Useable for other Single Services, too * Useable for "Pet" and "Cattle" (http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-pets-vs-cattle/) * Could contain System Roles for: - Pure MicroOS - MicroOS with OCI Container - MicroOS with Snaps - ... * Own installation Medium containing only the MicroOS packages, but coming from Tumbleweed * Full access to all openSUSE Tumbleweed packages openSUSE Kubic -------------- * Kubernetes Cluster using openSUSE MicroOS as OS * "Cattle" * Could contain System Roles: - MicroOS with OCI Container - kubeadm (master) - kubeadm (salt minion) - ... * Contains everything to install, run and maintain a kubernetes cluster * Base on Tumbleweed, full access to Tumbleweed packages openSUSE Tumbleweed ------------------- * Multipurpose OS * "Pet" * Useable for everything - Very flexible - With the overhead to be useable for everything - With the limitations to be useable for everything I hope this helps better to understand, how we see this distributions, how they belong together, what is the usecase and what is the differentiator. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & MicroOS SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kubic+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kubic+owner@opensuse.org