By Adrian Bridgwater
Publication Date: 2026-03-26 09:24:00
If you thought of SUSE as a company known for its open source operating system and developer services, you still can; those competencies all still exist. Given the cloud-native reinventions and augmentations that so many enterprise vendors go through, we can now think of SUSE as an enterprise open source automated intelligent infrastructure company with operational tools aligned for the agentic age.
Sometimes written as SuSE (from the original German – Gesellschaft für Software und Systementwicklung mbH) SUSE used its appearance at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to explain how it is focused on updates that transition container management into automated infrastructure operations.
As an overarching theme, SUSE says it is now here to unify the three worlds of AI, containers and Virtual Machines (VMs).
Not its First Agentic Rodeo
SUSE Rancher Prime now includes an open ecosystem for AI agents, providing developers and operations teams with automated operational (as in Ops) tools. Additionally, the SUSE Virtualization service serves as a foundation for modernizing legacy infrastructure and unifies VM and container management.
“Our open approach to AI and the unification of VM and container management allows developers to capitalize on the potential of AI and redefine their own operational simplicity, ultimately giving them flexibility, choice and control,” said Peter Smails, general manager for cloud-native at…
