Rafay vs. SUSE Rancher

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Rafay
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
The Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is a turnkey offering that automates Kubernetes cluster management, modern application deployment and operations at scale, from Rafay Systems in Sunnyvale. The platform enables development, operations and site reliability engineering teams to govern, manage and monitor multiple Kubernetes clusters and distros, and operating applications in Kubernetes environments running on-premise, in the cloud or at the Edge. Rafay is designed to accelerate platform…N/A
SUSE Rancher
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Developed by Rancher Labs and now from SUSE, Rancher is open-source software that enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes at scale, on any infrastructure across the data center, cloud, branch offices, and the network edge. Rancher centrally manages Kubernetes clusters across the organization in order to ensure security and accelerate transformation. Rancher is also available hosted. Hosted Rancher is a fully managed Rancher control plane - presented as the fastest, most cost…
$7,594.99
per year up to 500 nodes
Pricing
RafaySUSE Rancher
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Subscription license
7,594.99
per year up to 500 nodes
Standard Subscription
11,234.99
per year 10 nodes
Priority Subscription
30,514.99
per year 10 nodes
Management Server Priority Subscription
41,830.99
per year 1 instance
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RafaySUSE Rancher
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
RafaySUSE Rancher
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Rafay
-
Ratings
SUSE Rancher
8.8
5 Ratings
12% above category average
Security and Isolation00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
Container Orchestration00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Cluster Management00 Ratings9.55 Ratings
Storage Management00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
Discovery Tools00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings8.55 Ratings
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User Ratings
RafaySUSE Rancher
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.7
(15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(1 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(1 ratings)
6.8
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.2
(1 ratings)
4.5
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
RafaySUSE Rancher
Likelihood to Recommend
Rafay Systems, Inc
Rafay is well suited for managing K8 deployments in on-prem deployments as well as AWS. Their support for GKE seems a bit limited.
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SUSE
SUSE Rancher as a management tool becomes useful on a larger scale. Small deployments not so much. If someone also requires Kubernetes capacity or storage, Rancher is an excellent choice. Also, without Kubernetes' skills, it is unlikely that Rancher deployment is going to be a success. Then again if someone else is managing your Kubernetes capacity, setting up the software's capacity will yield greater control. Rancher is not a very integrated solution similar to others in the market.
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Pros
Rafay Systems, Inc
No answers on this topic
SUSE
  • Public and private cloud infrastructure providers based on K8s CAPI
  • REST API that can be used to integrate company services with Rancher
  • GUI that is easy to learn and use in daily operations
  • Builtin GitOps automation solution based on Fleet project
  • It is fully open source
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Cons
Rafay Systems, Inc
  • Seamless Single Sign-On Integration
  • Use of a jumpstation to bootstrap a new EKS cluster deployment
  • Some information in the UI does not auto populate
  • UI can be enhanced a bit
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SUSE
  • No possibility to snapshot Projects. You can snapshot and restore the whole Kubernetes cluster, but not a Project or Namespace. For this, you have to use external tools.
  • You cannot detach the Rancher-created Kubernetes clusters from Rancher management.
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Usability
Rafay Systems, Inc
So far our experience with using Rafay's platform has been very positive.
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SUSE
The usability and user experience are good in general, although sometimes some errors can cause confusion, especially for those users who are not experts.
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Support Rating
Rafay Systems, Inc
I have dealt with a lot of support organizations and am really glad to say that Rafay goes above and beyond expectations when it comes to supporting our teams.
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SUSE
Use cases can be complex hence support as well. Problems have been solvable, but not always easily. It's great that there is support!
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Alternatives Considered
Rafay Systems, Inc
No answers on this topic
SUSE
As we use only AWS EKS Clusters originally we were using the AWS Console and CLI but that is too limited in scope. Also, we were using AWS IAM roles to provide access to users but that was lots of extra work to have them integrated into SSO while on Rancher we have just connected our GitHub login with the Alfresco organization and that uses, in turn, Okta for SSO so provisioning for access is automatic for any developer who has been assigned to GitHub.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Rafay Systems, Inc
No, we are very satisfied with the contract terms and pricing model and hope it does not change in the future.
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SUSE
The investment for small environments is quite significant. There has to be a compelling case to enhance the areas where SUSE Rancher brings in value to make such a financial leap. There is also a free version to test the value propositions, which will help support the user's buying decisions. More clusters, more volume, more tasks and more complexity in the environment equals more value that Rancher can provide.
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Return on Investment
Rafay Systems, Inc
No answers on this topic
SUSE
  • Shortens "Time-to-Market" factor for new business applications or implementing new functionalities. From 1 to 50 microservices-based business applications in 6 years.
  • 24/7 availability, generates more money. There are many infrastructure components that are regularly powered-off for maintenance or upgrade, bur we rarely are turning off our downstream Kubernetes clusters where our business applications lives.
  • Single Point of Contact with platform maintenance and development Team, eases implementation of new business applications
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