GRUB2 with BLS is now in MicroOS and Tumbleweed Recently the openSUSE project released for MicroOS and Tumbleweed a new version of the GRUB2 package, with a new subpackage...

Intro This is a quick start guide for Full Disk Encryption with TPM or FIDO2 and YaST2 on openSUSE MicroOS. It focuses on the few steps to install openSUSE MicroOS with Ya...

This blog post dates from December 2019 and was updated in August 2024. Intro As some may have already noticed, several configuration files are no longer in /etc but are ...

Intro systemd v254 introduced a new reboot method: systemctl soft-reboot. A soft-reboot is similar to a regular reboot, except it affects user-space only. This command do...

MicroOS and Tumbleweed gained a new feature: You can now easily enroll SSH keys for authentication through the firstboot wizard on the very first boot already! Motivation ...

Systemd-boot and Full Disk Encryption in Tumbleweed and MicroOS openSUSE Tumbleweed and MicroOS are now delivering an image that is using systemd-boot as boot loader and f...

Intro With the last updates openSUSE MicroOS and Tumbleweed don’t use /run/utmp, /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/lastlog anymore. This files will no longer be created. /run/utm...

Intro With the last updates, many packages of openSUSE MicroOS, Tumbleweed and variants switched from utmp to systemd-logind. Y2038 Why do we need a replacement for utmp...

Intro With the last updates, openSUSE MicroOS, Tumbleweed and variants saw a new package: wtmpdb This is a replacement for wtmp. Y2038 Why do we need a replacement for ...

New Names! As seen in Richard Brown’s presentation at oSC23 Why you should be running the MicroOS Desktop We are pleased to announce a name change for both MicroOS Deskto...

Update/Clarification 2024-02-15 This post no longer reflects the state of the openSUSE Kalpa Project. More current updates on the state of Kalpa can be found at: Website M...

Intro openSUSE MicroOS has one deficit since the beginning: the documentation will not be installed on the system. For standard commands this is no problem: you can read ...

Intro NetworkManager was used already a long time for the majority of openSUSE Tumbleweed installations, except for server, MicroOS and Kubic. But more and more users requ...

Introduction During 2021 we have been starting to focus more in security for MicroOS. By default MicroOS is a fairly secure distribution: during the development all the c...

Announcement The Kubic Project is proud to announce that snapshot 20210901 has been released containing Kubernetes 1.22.1. Release Notes are avaialble HERE. Upgrade Step...

Announcement The Kubic Project is proud to announce that Snapshot 20210426 has been released containing Kubernetes 1.21.0. Release Notes are avaialble HERE. Upgrade Step...

Intro Since SUSE acquired Rancher Labs, it’s time to explain how to run Rancher on MicroOS and how to import a Kubic cluster. I used Rancher 2.5.5 for this, newer version...

Announcement The Kubic Project is proud to announce that Snapshot 20201211 has been released containing Kubernetes 1.20.0. Release Notes are avaialble HERE. Upgrade Step...

You Spoke, We Heard openSUSE MicroOS has been getting a significant amount of great attention lately. We’d like to thank everyone who has reviewed and commented on what w...

Announcement The Kubic Project is proud to announce that Snapshot 20200907 has been released containing Kubernetes 1.19.0. Release Notes are avaialble HERE. Upgrade Step...

Intro We made an important change for our Container Host OS openSUSE MicroOS, which our Kubernetes platform openSUSE Kubic will inherit since it is based on openSUSE Micro...

Announcement The Kubic Project is proud to announce that Snapshot 20200331 has been released containing Kubernetes 1.18.0. Release Notes are avaialble HERE. Upgrade Step...

Not only in development environments it’s very handy to have a quick turnaround time, which can include reboots. Especially for transactional systems where changes to the s...

Announcement The Kubic Project is proud to announce that Snapshot 20200113 has just been released containing Kubernetes 1.17.0. This is a particually exciting release wit...

Intro Sometimes there are occasions where direct internet access is not possible (proxy/offline/airgapped). Even in this setups it is possible to deploy and use Kubernetes...

Intro Our Container Host OS openSUSE MicroOS and our Kubernetes platform openSUSE Kubic are both using transactional-update to apply patches to the system. This implies th...

Intro If you think, this is too much text and sounds far too complicated or you are not interested in background informations: install openSUSE Kubic and go directly to th...

Kata Containers is an open source container runtime that is crafted to seamlessly plug into the containers ecosystem. We are now excited to announce that the Kata Contai...

We are proud to announce that Kubic officially supports AArch64, the 64-bit ARMv8! What does it mean? What are the differences with x86_64? How would you install and use ...

If you are reading this, it is possibly because you already know what Traefik is and you want to use it without running it as root (main proces pid 1) or any other privileg...

The openSUSE Kubic team is proud to announce that as of yesterday, our Kubic distribution has become a Certified Kubernetes Distribution! Notably, it is the first open so...

We’re really excited to announce that as of today, we now officially supports the CRI-O Container Runtime Interface as our default way of interfacing with containers on y...

kubeadm now available in Kubic As discussed in our recent announcement we’ve been working hard in our new direction, integrating kubeadm as a primary method of setting up ...

Dear Community, It’s been over a year since we started the Kubic project, and it’s worth looking back over the last months and evaluating where we’ve succeeded, where we h...

A little over a month ago the openSUSE Project held its annual main community conference in Prague. Of course Kubic project was there, and we had a number of talks covering...

After our post a few weeks ago announcing the availability of transactional updates in openSUSE Tumbleweed & Leap 15 we received a bunch of questions and feedback about...

Transactional Updates is one of the exciting new features from the Kubic project which will be available in the upcoming release of openSUSE Leap 15, and is already availab...

Interested in the latest container technologies? Great, here is what the openSUSE community has been working on lately. Many of our users are interested in trying out alt...

Welcome to the webpage and inaugural blog post of the Kubic Project. This post should serve as a basic introduction to Kubic for anyone interested in what we’re doing. W...