Open Source K8s Management Solution - Great for Bare Metal Installations
Updated March 14, 2022
Open Source K8s Management Solution - Great for Bare Metal Installations
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Rancher
Modules Used
- Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE)
- Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 (RKE2)
- Harvester
Overall Satisfaction with SUSE Rancher
We started using SUSE Rancher to manage K8s clusters on bare metal. In the beginning, we mainly use it to deploy and upgrade new clusters. Then we noticed that the UI is a great feature to bring K8s to the customers. The UI gives you an easily understandable overview of all of your managed clusters. We didn’t find that feature with other software.
- Management of multiple clusters in multiple environments
- Simple to use dashboard
- Deployment of new clusters on bare metal
- Integrated CI/CD (Fleet) is hard to use
- Multicluster management through one entrypoint
- Integration with authentication services like LDAP or FreeIPA
- Integration with cloud providers
- Saving time needed for deployment by using templates
- Saving a lot of time when upgrading K8s to newer versions
We were looking for an open-source solution for simply deploying and managing K8s on bare metal in both big and small environments. SUSE Rancher was the easiest to install. Rancher Kubernetes Engine (2) and K3s will give you just a plain simple Kubernetes environment. The other software solutions we looked into were restricted and only ran on certain operating systems or had a whole new platform with tools we didn't need.
Do you think SUSE Rancher delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with SUSE Rancher's feature set?
Yes
Did SUSE Rancher live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of SUSE Rancher go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy SUSE Rancher again?
Yes