Architecture overview

SUSE® Rancher Prime OS Manager is the combination of two main projects: the SUSE® Rancher Prime OS Manager Toolkit and the SUSE® Rancher Prime OS Manager Operator.

The SUSE® Rancher Prime OS Manager Toolkit enables OS installation and updates from OCI container images, so the OS can be distributed and retrieved via container registries.

The SUSE® Rancher Prime OS Manager Operator extends Rancher with OS provisioning and OS management functionalities, leveraging the SUSE® Rancher Prime OS Manager Toolkit. It bridges the gap between the SUSE® Rancher Prime OS Manager Toolkit and the Rancher RKE2/K3s Cluster provisioning, to provide a seamless experience going from hosts without OS to fully configured Kubernetes Clusters.

This is achieved through a set of services offered by SUSE® Rancher Prime OS Manager that are made possible thanks to the components borrowed from the SUSE® Rancher Prime OS Manager Toolkit and the SUSE® Rancher Prime OS Manager Operator projects.