SUSE Working on a New Operating System Called MicroOS
SUSE’s answer to container-centric operating systems.
Cloud and containers is the next frontier for Linux companies. Responding to Container OS, Project Atomic, and Snappy Core, SUSE is working on MicroOS. The new operating system by SUSE is based on SUSE Enterprise Linux and focuses on delivering microservices.
In an exclusive interview with The New Stack, SUSE’s newly appointed CTO, Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo, said that it will help those customers who are running legacy systems but want to migrate to modern technologies over time. “We want to make sure that companies that have legacy infrastructure and legacy applications that can move to modern technologies, where container as a service is offered through that OS itself.”
One of the core components of MicroOS is transactional updates which use the snapshot capabilities of Btrfs. All updates will be installed automatically and a reboot will switch the system to latest packages. If anything fails, it will roll back to the older working version. The beta version of the project is expected to be released in March, the final release is expected in June.
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