Rancher Labs headlined SUSE’s recent SUSECON Digital 2021 event. The recently acquired company has played a big part in SUSE’s overall security strategy including updates to its edge, cloud, and cloud-native products.

One of its more significant moves was the launch of its SUSE Edge platform. It’s designed as a lightweight software package targeted at building and managing cloud-native applications running in edge locations.

It uses SUSE’s Linux Enterprise Micro operating system, the K3s Kubernetes distribution initially developed by SUSE’s Rancher Labs division, and a combination of SUSE and Rancher Labs components to manage cloud-native containerized workloads and non-containerized cloud-ready application workloads.