One of the easiest ways to build a software appliance is the SUSE Studio Linux technology. SUSE is now updating the software appliance building technology with its 1.3 release.
SUSE Studio was first launched in 2009 as a free online service. The effort was expanded in 2010 with first release of a commercial on-premise SUSE Studio version. The most recent release was the SUSE Studio 1.2 release which provided the ability to build Linux software appliance that could run on mainframes.
In SUSE Studio 1.3 the focus is on the cloud.
“You can now build appliances for SUSE Cloud and other OpenStack based clouds,” Andreas Jaeger, program manager at SUSE told Datamation.
Read the full story at Datamation:
SUSE Studio 1.3: Linux Appliances Head to the Cloud
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