SUSE drives deeper in observability for AI workloads
SUSE used its appearance at KuveCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 Americas in Atlanta, Georgia this week to deliver what it says is AI simplicity and deeper observability for both container and AI workloads.
The company announced extended core capabilities in its cloud native platform technology SUSE Rancher Prime and SUSE AI, a specialised stack of software with data services designed to provide flexible platform tools to manage hybrid AI workloads.
According to IDC, by 2028, 65% of “build your own” agentic AI projects will have been abandoned after failing to meet ROI goals, as organisations struggle to understand the actual costs and value of implementations.
Built on SUSE Rancher Prime, the company says that SUSE AI provides the security, observability and frameworks customers need to secure their AI solutions at scale, allowing them to operationalise, track ROI… and keep data under control.
Having achieved CNCF Conformance, SUSE Rancher Prime and SUSE AI are said to assure trust, interoperability and community commitment, allowing users to operate consistently across all infrastructure, by which SUSE means: public clouds, private clouds, on premises and air-gapped environments.
The platform addresses high-stakes business requirements for data security and digital sovereignty, ensuring enterprises maintain control over business data and proprietary intellectual property.
“The future of enterprise IT will run on secure, containerised AI applications, with specialised workloads across any hybrid cloud environment,” says Thomas Di Giacomo, chief product and technology officer at SUSE.
Di Giacomo says that as a container management platform, SUSE Rancher Prime serves as what he calls a “powerful foundation” for SUSE AI. “This coupling uniquely positions us to help customers manage their complex IT workloads and accelerate their AI journeys,” he added.
The latest release of SUSE AI provides seamless AI operations and reduces overhead and cost visibility and savings through Universal Proxy i.e. the integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) proxy within SUSE AI (at tech preview at the time of writing), simplifies connections by creating centralised management for the proliferation of MCP endpoints, optimising model costs and enhancing data access control.
SUSE accelerates the adoption and governance of AI by expanding strategic partnerships to create a complete, integrated ecosystem.
SUSE Rancher Prime
SUSE Rancher Prime, the cloud native platform powering SUSE AI and SUSE Edge solutions, also includes numerous updates that deliver simple, consistent operations at scale for all workloads across complex data center, cloud and edge environments.
New features include simplified management with agentic AI: available as tech preview, SUSE Rancher Prime now includes Liz, a context-aware AI agent that simplifies Kubernetes management enabling teams to proactively detect issues, optimise performance, and reduce resolution times for customer issues.
- Virtual Clusters: Now generally available, SUSE virtual clusters help enterprises optimise their costly GPU resources unlocking the potential of Kubernetes for AI.
- Full Stack Management: SUSE Rancher Prime enhances and further simplifies the management of the full SUSE stack from the operating system to workloads for organisations wanting to leverage the benefits of running an all-SUSE stack.
- SUSE Observability now includes a dashboard editor enabling users to visually organise operational data into shared, actionable knowledge leading to faster incident resolution times. The latest version also adds support for the OTel framework, enabling SUSE Observability to provide unified visibility and insights across your entire technology landscape, not just Kubernetes.
SUSE Rancher Developer Access
SUSE also announced SUSE Rancher Developer Access, a UI extension granting access to SUSE Application Collection via Rancher Desktop, a desktop application for managing Kubernetes and container development environments locally from a computer.
SUSE Application Collection is a curated library of open source apps and container base images delivered by SUSE. This powerful combination empowers developers to build and deploy highly secure, production-ready applications using trusted content.
