Production-Ready Virtualisation with Harvester and Longhorn
Harvester in Prod

Alex Bissessur
Alexandre Bissessur, who most commonly goes by Alex, is a young IT professional specialising in Cloud Native technologies, particularly Kubernetes. He is an organiser of the Cloud Native Chapter in Mauritius. Alongside Cloud Native, Alex is experienced in many other domains including development and system administration.
An avid homelabber, he takes a lot of pride in the servers he runs in the living room at home, much to the displeasure of his parents.
Finally, he is a strong advocate for FOSS, pushing for more widespread adoption back home in Mauritius.
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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!
- Date:
- 2025 June 28 - 11:30
- Duration:
- 30 min
- Room:
- Saal
- Conference:
- openSUSE Conference 2025
- Language:
- Track:
- Cloud, Containers, Virtualization
- Difficulty:
- Easy
- Look at my toys! Accessibility Edition
- Start Time:
- 2025 June 28 11:00
- Room:
- Seminar Room 1
- mkosi-initrd enablement on openSUSE
- Start Time:
- 2025 June 28 11:30
- Room:
- Gallerie