RIP SUSE OpenStack Cloud

   SUSE announced that they are dropping support for SUSE OpenStack Cloud on the 9th of October 2019. This decision came as a surprise to many as it came just a few months after a successful release of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9. For many years, SUSE has been a solid contributor to the OpenStack project and a recognised vendor.
 

   In the official announcement, SUSE stated, “SUSE is focusing on and increasing our strategic investments in the application delivery market and its opportunities in order to align with technology trends in the industry and, most important, with our customers’ needs. So SUSE will be working more on its Kubernetes-based  application delivery offerings, SUSE Cloud Application Platform and SUSE CaaS Platform.”. As a result, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 and SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 are now expected to reach EOL on the 31th of May 2021 and 29th of April 2022 respectively.