Rancher - Kubernetes-based platforms reimagined
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What is SUSE Rancher?
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…
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- Cluster Management (5)9.595%
- Container Orchestration (5)9.090%
- Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging (5)8.585%
- Update Rollouts and Rollbacks (5)8.383%
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What is SUSE Rancher?
Rancher is an 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. According to the vendor, 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-effective path to multi-cluster Kubernetes in an enterprise.
Available as an additional option, Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) is a CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution that runs entirely within Docker containers. It is designed to solve the common frustration of installation complexity with Kubernetes by removing most host dependencies and presenting a stable path for deployment, upgrades, and rollbacks.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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-effective path to multi-cluster Kubernetes in an enterprise.
SUSE Rancher starts at $7594.99.
Reviewers rate Cluster Management highest, with a score of 9.5.
The most common users of SUSE Rancher are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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February 13, 2024
Rancher - Kubernetes-based platforms reimagined
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Rancher at corporate scale: multiple cluster, tens of projects, 300 Namespaces, 500 applications developers and administrators, thousands of Business users and clients etc. Rancher is used to maintain multiple very similar to each other Kubernetes clusters, within two main environments (non-production and production).Time not consumed by repetetive Day-2 operations, we can spent on developing new functionalites of our Rancher-based platforms. Most important ROI for Business is single platform for all business applications that are built as microservices. That provides shorter time-to-market factor, and SPoC and SPoK (K as Knowledge) for applications developers.
- 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
- Airgap installations can be hard and demanding
- Still waiting for Project 2.0 feature with support of hierarchical Namespaces
- Speed of development of new functionalites is uneven
September 18, 2023
Orchestrate Kubernetes everywhere
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use SUSE Rancher as our central tool for orchestrating our Kubernetes landscape to enable standarization, governance, lifecycle managment and visibility.
By using SUSE Rancher we will get support for our Kubernetes landscape, which is no possible by just using open source, and reduce the complexitiy of setting up Kubernetes clusters.
We started with on-premise and extended to AWS EKS and plan to also add Azure AKS in future.
By using SUSE Rancher we will get support for our Kubernetes landscape, which is no possible by just using open source, and reduce the complexitiy of setting up Kubernetes clusters.
We started with on-premise and extended to AWS EKS and plan to also add Azure AKS in future.
- Easy rollout of Kubernetes Clusters
- Multi-Tenancy
- Container deployment via Helm
- Connection to cloud providers could be easier
- The documentation could be more comprehensible
- It would be nice to have best practices for the setup
September 15, 2023
Rancher
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We need to run our Kubernetes-Clusters in an Air-Gapped environment and need the opportunity to manage all these clusters and also append new ones in short time.
- Deploy new clusters out of Rancher in minutes
- Manage all clusters with one tool
- Fleet integration
- Supports Air-Gapped environments
- Releases should be more stable
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We work with multiple clients and by the time we have multiple cluster hosted on multiple cloud platforms. It's very difficult to manage all those cluster manually or through cli tools. With Rancher we can easily create, upgrade and delete clusters in almost all the major cloud platform. One of the major issue was managing users and monitoring the cluster, Rancher helps us in that as well.
- Cluster management
- Cluster Monitoring
- User Management
- Backup
- Support for EKS Fargate is not available
- GitOps tool need some improvement
April 20, 2023
Review for Suse Rancher
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I am using Suse Rancher to manage Kubernetes system. This has a good Graphical user interface to Manage the Kubernetes Cluster. We are using the cloud environment for our Kubernetes configuration. It is good to have Rancher product which are easy to manage the Kubernetes solution. We have some web base application hosted on Kubernetes cluster & this is managed by Suse Rancher.
- Easy to Mange Kubernetes cluster Using Suse Rancher GUI
- No need to know all type of Kubernetes command while using Suse Rancher GUI
- Easy to upgrade the Kubernetes Version
- Some more features need to add in Kubernetes cluster configuration
- Support should be improved
- Production documentation should be more user friendly
July 27, 2022
SUSE Rancher is all you need to run Kubernetes
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use SUSE Rancher to run Kubernetes production workloads.
We chose Rancher because:
+) It's easy to manage users and their permissions.
+) It's the most complete Kubernetes GUI on the market.
+) Developers don't need to know kubectl cli and Kubernetes YAML syntax to start deploying workblows.
+) It's very easy to upgrade Kubernetes versions with just a few mouse clicks.
We chose Rancher because:
+) It's easy to manage users and their permissions.
+) It's the most complete Kubernetes GUI on the market.
+) Developers don't need to know kubectl cli and Kubernetes YAML syntax to start deploying workblows.
+) It's very easy to upgrade Kubernetes versions with just a few mouse clicks.
- User permissions
- Kubernetes version upgrades
- The most complete Kubernetes GUI on the market
- 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.
We needed a web dashboard software for our AWS EKS development clusters on Kubernetes with granular user access connected to our SSO and as we had been using in the past Rancher 1 successfully in pre-Kubernetes days it was good to investigate the new Rancher completely built for Kubernetes. The tool is invaluable and the user interface is so easy that also our more technically minded Product Managers can use it. It also unifies authentication for command-line access for kubectl and provides its own command-line tool for developers who prefer not to use the web interface.
- Unified kubectl Authentication with SSO across clouds
- rancher CLI for developers and integration in CI/CD
- Easy web UI to access pod logs and modify images used
- Deeper integration with Kubernetes Cluster API to allow upgrading clusters
- Integration with Rancher Desktop to promote workloads
March 17, 2022
SUSE Rancher review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use SUSE Rancher to help us with the management of Kubernetes clusters and the management of our containers in several environments.
- Management of cluster
- Monitoring of clusters
- AD integration
- Ease of use
- The GUI is lite confusing
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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
February 24, 2022
Gather Up Your Cloud Cattle with Rancher
Customers of Datalounges build, maintain and manage cloud native applications on a variety of Kubernetes platforms. Often these are provided by hyper scalers such as Google and AmazonWeb Services. A small environment is easy for customers to keep under control, but as the use cases start varying and requirements for security, configuration management and more common ops-related problems arise, SUSE Rancher is introduced to the equation to maintain those platforms. Key use cases may include controlled delivery of apps from a trusted source and then their lifecycle or controlling the configurations of the Kubernetes environments to keep them similar enough over their lifecycle. Mainly it is a scaling thing though. Rancher provides a good basis for skilled engineers to automate and those with less experience to administrate in scale.
- Manages users and access.
- Maintains Kubernetes configurations.
- Provides admin visibility to cluster health.
- Self-service of developers needs either tooling or improvement
- The observability-like elastic component is not flexible to fit into the rest of the stack
- Fleet GitOps functionality could use improvement to compete with leading vendors
February 17, 2022
Rancher - A Comprehensive Kubernetes Platform
We use SUSE Rancher in our organization for managing our Production environment which consists of multiple K8s Clusters. We also use Rancher to set up our clusters in multi-cloud environments like GCP/AWS. We do user authentication & authorization via Rancher's support for AD & LDAP. We also use Rancher Desktop for for a simplistic way of looking into our prod environment.
- Kubernetes Cluster Management
- RBAC Assignments
- Act as a GUI in-front of K8s
- Documentation could be improved.
- No ability to see, edit and manage CRDs from the GUI.
- Integration documents
February 09, 2022
Managing and controlling your Kubernetes cluster in a simple way
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The main use of SUSE Rancher has been to easily manage different Kubernetes clusters using different environments. One of the main advantages provided by this solution is its interoperability with different environments and cloud providers so that deployments are executed in a faster and more controlled way. In addition, thanks to the possibilities offered at the cluster management level, the process of adding high availability to the applications that are running are facilitated.
- Managing a Kubernetes cluster in a simple way.
- Interoperability with different cloud providers.
- Save time and resources by further simplifying Kubernetes deployments.
- Intuitive user interface for the end user.
- Integration with CI/CD systems.
- The update process.
February 03, 2022
Worth the effort to set up
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We currently use SUSE Rancher as a consolidated service for our Kubernetes developmental endeavors. We're relatively new to the platform so have been experimenting using it as a head piece for many of our existing systems. The more we become familiar with the functionality, the more we see opportunities to integrate our existing solutions and make them even better and easier to maintain.
- Automates processes
- Centralized security
- Makes provisioning easier
- Sometimes encounter logging bugs
- Metadata connection troubleshooting
- Meeting deployment requirements
January 25, 2022
Choose SUSE Rancher and be happy
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use SUSE Rancher to help us and others with the management of Kubernetes clusters and the management of containers. The UI gives a great overview of all clusters/software components--right now a unique feature. CLI is for more complex scenarios (really, really helpful)--especially when it comes to integration into existing environments/clouds.
- Great UI
- Multiple clusters into one dashboard
- Deployment of a new cluster
- Update/upgrade
- CI/CD
January 24, 2022
Round'em up!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have two installations of Rancher (prod and non-prod). each rancher instance manages multiple clusters. We are using rancher to better enable users to interact with the clusters, get visual interactions for quicker understanding, and lower the barrier to adoption of the Kubernetes ecosystem. Our Kubernetes clusters and self-managed, and run on k3s. Rancher - fleet (which comes as part of the rancher installation) enables our deployments to follow the Gitops system. Deployments are managed by the feature teams, with versioning and audit of releases done via git. The ability to scale workloads, and get new developers to adopt is so much easier than having to upscale knowledge of CLI tools.
- simplify the visualisations and relations of Kubernetes
- lots of documentation / videos / slack channel
- stable releases are prod ready, works as advertised
- the ui updates sometimes fail and hard refresh is required
- fall over / restart can be slow (room for improvement)
- SSO for rancher is limited