openSUSE Conference 2025 - Production-Ready Virtualisation with Harvester and Longhorn

https://media.ccc.de/v/5014-productio... Harvester in Prod After certain events caused massive upheaval in the virtualisation landscape, many companies using that technology have found themselves dropped into the deep end, with skyrocketing infrastructure costs and furious upper management. Promising a stark opposite to high costs, limited flexibility, and vendor lock-in, Harvester takes the stage. Harvester is an open source hyperconverged infrastructure solution built by SUSE, and provides a complete package for everything compute, networking, and storage. This presentation will take a peek under the hood of Harvester and how it leverages existing open source solutions to provide a scalable and resilient virtualisation platform - in particular Longhorn, which is the distributed block storage engine powering storage in Harvester and Kubernetes clusters around the world. Attendees will leave this talk motivated to replace their existing production infrastructure with Harvester, powered by the flexibility and high availability of Longhorn. So, whether you are looking at bringing the cloud back to your server room, or reducing costs with existing infrastructure (while ensuring prod isn't at risk), then this talk will get you started! Alex Bissessur #osc25 #CloudContainersVirtualization Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...