Introduction to SUSE Studio Tim Serong Senior Clustering Engineer OPS Engineering, Novell Inc.

© 22/09/2016 Novell Inc. 2 SUSE Studio is... A web app for building custom Linux distros Build Live CDs, VM images, EC2 images, disk images Freely usable at susestudio.com by anybody

© 22/09/2016 Novell Inc. 3 Notable Features Include... Configure everything once (users, network, etc.) Upload custom files, scripts, applications Test Drive “appliance” directly in your web browser Save modifications back to your appliance

© 22/09/2016 Novell Inc. 4 You Might Care if... You want repeatable VM deployments You want to make demo CDs You're an ISV You've been given a SUSE appliance thing by an ISV

© 22/09/2016 Novell Inc. 5 I Should Probably Also Mention... SUSE Studio Onsite is available for purchase Use it inside your firewall SUSE Studio is actually a frontend for KIWI There's also susegallery.com, for sharing appliances

Time for a Walkthrough

Let's Actually Deploy the VM Now...

A Quick Look at SUSE Gallery

Any Questions?

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