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The financial services industry has evolved at an astonishing rate in recent years, underpinned by rapid advances in technology. Financial institutions (FIs) are digitising their customer journeys and scaling-up transformation. Cloud is a catalyst for enterprise business transformation and is a focus for C-suite executives and board members of financial services organisations.

The latest Kubernetes release, 1.24, is about to be made generally available. Today, the community announced the availability of the 1.24 release candidate. Developers, DevOps and other cloud and open source enthusiasts who want to experiment with the latest cutting edge K8s features can already do so easily with MicroK8s.

MicroK8s is a CNCF-certified Kubernetes that is perfect for kicking the tires on the latest Kubernetes release. Equally at home as a single node on a laptop or a cluster in the cloud, it delivers a no-nonsense, minimal-effort way to spin up any version, including the latest stable or release candidates. MicroK8s is delivered as a self-contained snap package, which uses channels to support different versions with the same simple deployment command.

As we’ve said before, every IT organization is different - from the underlying architecture and public cloud usage to edge strategies and the applications actually running in production. There is, however, one constant that supersedes these differences for CIOs - the need for commonality across all of these heterogeneous workloads, environments and applications. In many organizations, this common platform stretching across the hybrid cloud, from the datacenter to the edge, is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

SUSE and Dell Technologies continue to deliver joint solutions that help you in your digital transformation journey. Here are six reference configurations for SUSE and SUSE Rancher on Dell Technologies PowerEdge servers.