SUSE Rancher

SUSE Rancher

30 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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

SUSE Rancher

Editions & Modules

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
SUSE Rancher
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	SUSE Rancher
Considered Both Products	SUSE Rancher Szymon Madej DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices Chose SUSE Rancher That is the one of the greatest values of Rancher. You can choose to add new features and functionalities to your environment by implementing other projects from SUSE, but you not forced to. You can use Longhorn as Persistent Storage, but you can use any other i.e. VMware CSI, … Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose SUSE Rancher While Tanzu has a deeper integration in an existing VMWare cluster, we decided for SUSE Rancher because of a more open approach. Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose SUSE Rancher SUSE Rancher has the most complete Kubernetes GUI. Helpful? Marcello Teodori Senior Manager Chose SUSE Rancher 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose SUSE Rancher SUSE Rancher has a great GUI, and seems to be a little bit mor open than the competitors. Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose SUSE Rancher 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 … Helpful? Verified User Director Chose SUSE Rancher I find SUSE Rancher easier to use and configure with the features I want to really use. I'm finding more people in the community to help in getting support for the product. The other competitors seem to lock you too much into their own ecosystems and keep many needed details … Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose SUSE Rancher lens installs locally and needs access (network) to the kube_api of the clusters. With Rancher, you need access to the rancher front end (UI / 443), and your clusters Kube API does not need to be exposed (even over a VPN or whitelisted ips). For security reasons, the rancher … Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Management of multiple Pro Easy to use Pro Multiple environments
Top Cons	Minus Ci cd Minus Not flexible Minus Deeper integration

Features

SUSE Rancher

Container Management

Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
	SUSE Rancher 8.8 5 Ratings 11% above category average
Security and Isolation	8.64 Ratings
Container Orchestration	9.05 Ratings
Cluster Management	9.55 Ratings
Storage Management	8.44 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	8.84 Ratings
Discovery Tools	9.34 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	8.35 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	8.94 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	8.55 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	SUSE Rancher
Small Businesses	Portainer Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	SUSE Rancher
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	6.8 (2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	4.5 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SUSE Rancher
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Kim Aaltonen Managing Director Read full review
Pros	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 Szymon Madej DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices Read full review
Cons	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. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	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. Jose Manuel Ortega Software Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	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! Incentivized Kim Aaltonen Managing Director Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Marcello Teodori Senior Manager Read full review
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	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. Incentivized Kim Aaltonen Managing Director Read full review
Return on Investment	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 Szymon Madej DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices Read full review
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