'March'ing forward
With a fresh issue on the first Tuesday of every month, the Rancher Roundup is your digest of all things cloud native in SUSE. Keep up with the latest in Rancher, Kubewarden, k3s and all our other projects by subscribing today!
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During March, we’re excited to bring you the hottest native cloud content with our live streams.?
First up, we have our principal technology advocate, Orlin Vasilev , hosting members of the Kubernetes 1.33 Release team, Matteo Bianchi , Nina Polshakova , and Ryota Sawada on March 6th to discuss all things release management. Join us on YouTube or LinkedIn to learn how you can contribute to this initiative.
Measuring sustainability in the cloud native world is challenging; which is why there is a technical advisory group within the CNCF that focuses on this effort. On March 27th, Divya Mohan will host Antonio D. , a co-chair of the Green Reviews working group, to learn more about this initiative. Join along on YouTube or LinkedIn by signing up today!
We’re bringing back SUSE Rancher Day to the upcoming KubeCon London on popular demand. But what can you, as an attendee, expect? Join Divya Mohan as she hosts Jeroen Van Erp & Nelson Batsford to sneak a peek into the BTS of the event on March 20th. Per usual, we’ll be streaming live on YouTube & LinkedIn.?
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Kubewarden
We’re excited to announce the release of Kubewarden v1.22! This release brings some improvements to kwctl and the Rust SDK, together with some internal changes to prepare for future work. Read more about the changes you can expect in the latest version on our release announcement blog.
As always, we welcome feedback and would love to have you join us during our monthly community meeting!?
Longhorn
ICYMI, we also released a new version of Longhorn, v 1.7.3, in February,? introducing several improvements and bug fixes intended to improve system quality, resilience, stability and security. Go check it out today, and let us know what you think!
Rancher
Since our general availability announcement at KubeCon Europe 2024, we've been hard at work expanding the SUSE Rancher Prime Application Collection with a wide range of popular helm charts and single container applications, all running on the rock-solid foundation of our SUSE Linux Enterprise Base Container Image (SLE BCI) SP6. In December, we were thrilled to mark a significant milestone of 60 applications now being served via this collection! These are ?exclusively? available to SUSE Rancher Prime customers, adding immense value to their subscriptions.?
We grew our collection by adding the below apps in February 2025:
But, wait. Have you ever found yourself lost in the Application Collection Catalogue and don’t know where to begin? We’ve got you covered with the First Steps documentation released in February and we hope you like it!
Rancher Desktop
In February, we introduced v1.18.0 of Rancher Desktop with a bunch of bug fixes and enhancements. Notable among them are the inclusion of updated Rancher Dashboards and Open WebUI extensions along with a separate RPM for Fedora. Check out the release notes to learn more and connect with us on the Rancher Users Slack, if you run into issues or have suggestions!
openSUSE Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed has adopted SELinux as the default Linux Security Module (LSM) for new installations after using AppArmor as its default LSM for quite some time. SELinux will be enabled in enforcing mode by default only for new installations. Existing installations will not be affected by the change and will retain the option to select AppArmor during installation if they prefer. To learn more about this update, check out our announcement blog.?
News from the Ranch
With the release of RKE 1.6.0, please note that RKE will be maintained for only two more versions, and support will reach end-of-life on July 25, 2025. Please read our announcement blog to learn more about the next steps.
Learn how you can deploy SUSE’s Edge Cluster on your local workstation using our Edge Image Builder project by checking this excellent step-by-step blog out!
Next week, we will be at SUSECON, SUSE’s annual global conference where our customers, partners and community members will delve into how the latest open source advances can meet the technical needs and business challenges of the enterprise IT customer. We also have openSUSE hosting the Early Adopter Tech Summit co-located with SUSECON on March 14th, discussing the developments in open source & community software. Stay updated with the latest and greatest announcements from Orlando, Florida, by tuning into our socials.
The call for papers is now open for the openSUSE conference being held in Nuremberg this year between June 26th and June 28th. Share your insights on everything open source in the spheres of cloud computing, edge, and more by submitting a proposal before April 30, 2025!
For the Community, by the Community?
Kubewarden Community Meeting
If you’d like to join our next community meeting, we invite you to subscribe to our calendar feed!?
Kubewarden was also recently featured in an episode of ChatLoopBackOff by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. You can watch the recorded version on YouTube by clicking ??
Our openSUSE Linux distribution also featured a mention on the Destination Linux podcast. Don't miss this deep dive into Linux, tech & the #Geeko ?? love
It’s Showtime! ??
We’re excited to bring you Rancher Rodeos, our virtual workshops that focus on arming you with everything you need to get started in cloud native. Sign up for our rodeos being hosted on March 6 and March 20, and get a headstart on your upskilling journey in 2025!
In the lead-up to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, we’re proud sponsors of Cloud Native Rejekts - the b-side conference that offers a second chance to the wonderful talks that didn’t make it to the main conference. While we’ll be closing out the conference with a special keynote by Robert Sirchia on 31st March, our team will be hanging out at the conference to connect with the wider cloud native community on both days. See you there!