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SUSE Rancher

Overview

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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Recent Reviews

Orchestrate Kubernetes everywhere

8 out of 10
September 18, 2023
We use SUSE Rancher as our central tool for orchestrating our Kubernetes landscape to enable standarization, governance, lifecycle …
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Rancher

8 out of 10
September 15, 2023
We need to run our Kubernetes-Clusters in an Air-Gapped environment and need the opportunity to manage all these clusters and also append …
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SUSE Rancher review

9 out of 10
March 17, 2022
We use SUSE Rancher to help us with the management of Kubernetes clusters and the management of our containers in several environments.
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Round'em up!

9 out of 10
January 24, 2022
We have two installations of Rancher (prod and non-prod). each rancher instance manages multiple clusters. We are using rancher to better …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Cluster Management (5)
    9.5
    95%
  • Container Orchestration (5)
    9.0
    90%
  • Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging (5)
    8.5
    85%
  • Update Rollouts and Rollbacks (5)
    8.3
    83%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Szymon Madej | TrustRadius Reviewer
Szymon Madej
DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices
PZU (Insurance, 10,001+ employees)
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees
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Pricing

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Subscription license

7,594.99

Cloud
per year up to 500 nodes

Standard Subscription

11,234.99

Cloud
per year 10 nodes

Priority Subscription

30,514.99

Cloud
per year 10 nodes

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $7,594.99 per year up to 500 nodes
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Product Demos

Digital Twin: AR/VR – Live Demo for Advanced Customer Experience on SUSE Rancher and FUSEML

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Deploying F5 BIG-IP & NGINX with SUSE Rancher

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Understanding Continuous Delivery in SUSE Rancher (Demo)

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Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres (FEP) SUSE Rancher Demo

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Getting started with SUSE Rancher and Ondat persistent storage

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Deploy and manage Linux - SLE Micro and SLE Micro for SUSE Rancher

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Features

Container Management

Features commonly found in Container Management software.

8.8
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

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.

SUSE Rancher Video

Short Introduction to Rancher

SUSE Rancher Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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 Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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March 30, 2022

Using Rancher as Kubernetes Dashboard and Cluster Management for Developers

Marcello Teodori | TrustRadius Reviewer
Marcello Teodori
Senior Manager
Alfresco (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
When managing multiple development clusters it's extremely useful, especially with multiple cloud providers. We haven't used it for cloud production workloads yet where security assessment to match certifications is required and cloud operations should assess if they find it as useful as developers do.
Most Important Features
  • SSO Integration for Cluster Management and kubectl
Return on Investment
  • Made much easier adopting Kubernetes in development
  • Full visibility of CI/CD environment status to developers for self service troubleshooting
Alternatives Considered
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.
Other Software Used
Slack, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Jira Software
Users and Roles
100
Developers and Product Managers
Support Headcount Required
4
DevOps Engineer
March 14, 2022

Open Source K8s Management Solution - Great for Bare Metal Installations

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
Using Rancher in combination with Vsphere or Harvester provides almost the same comfortable user experience on bare metal as other big cloud provider solutions. Also, SUSE Rancher makes the complete lifecycle of K8s very simple. It's a lean management solution compared to others if you just use Kubernetes and not a full-blown-up container platform with all the bells and whistles you probably don’t need.
Most Important Features
  • Multicluster management through one entrypoint
  • Integration with authentication services like LDAP or FreeIPA
  • Integration with cloud providers
Return on Investment
  • Saving time needed for deployment by using templates
  • Saving a lot of time when upgrading K8s to newer versions
Alternatives Considered
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.
Other Software Used
February 09, 2022

Managing and controlling your Kubernetes cluster in a simple way

Jose Manuel Ortega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jose Manuel Ortega
Software Engineer
UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'Alacant (E-Learning, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
The best scenario to use SUSE Rancher is where we need to manage the lifecycle of applications hosted on one or more Kubernetes clusters hosted by cloud providers using solutions like Amazon EKS, Microsoft AKS, and Google GKE. Other possible scenarios are where users with multi-cloud environments can now easily manage, secure and operate their clusters hosted within SUSE Rancher.
Return on Investment
  • Saving time and resources.
  • Greater freedom of choice and freedom of infrastructure.
  • Greater confidence to build applications and scale environments.
Support Rating
8
The documentation is quite complete and there is a very active community that is willing to collaborate and answer questions for those who are just starting out.
Usability
8
The usability and user experience are good in general, although sometimes some errors can cause confusion, especially for those users who are not experts.
January 25, 2022

Choose SUSE Rancher and be happy

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Great UI
  • Multiple clusters into one dashboard
  • Deployment of a new cluster
  • Update/upgrade
  • CI/CD
Likelihood to Recommend
It provides a complete lifecycle for containers in bare-metal or cloud environments.
Most Important Features
  • Deployment of a new cluster
Return on Investment
  • Saving time (deployment and upgrades)
Alternatives Considered
Other Software Used
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