Managing Linux servers has never been easy. Programs like Cockpit[1], cPanel[2], and Webmin[3] use a GUI to make it simpler to handle common sysadmin tasks. But, with servers moving from the racks in your server room to the cloud and the edge and the Internet of Things (IoT), we need more. That's where DevOps[4] comes in. And now programs like the new SUSE Manager 4[5] combine the best of both sysadmin approaches.
Daniel Nelson, SUSE[6] VP of products and solutions, explained in a statement: "SUSE Manager manages physical, virtual, and containerized systems across edge, core, and cloud environments, all from a single centralized console. It's part of the IT transformation that lowers costs, reduces complexity, and boosts business agility."
The latest SUSE Manager, according to leading business Linux distributor SUSE, provides you with a single tool to manage Linux systems across a variety of hardware architectures, hypervisors, as well as container, IoT, and cloud platforms. It does this by automating server and IoT device provisioning, patching, and configuration. This, in turn, gives you faster and more consistent and repeatable server deployment.
This starts with a new front-end: The Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) user interface. This is backed up by improved application programming interfaces (API)s for managing packages, patches, and configurations. With you can move move software packages across multiple stages, such as development, QA, and production, as a simple UI-based task.
To manager virtual machine (VM)s, SUSE Server