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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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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February 13, 2024

Rancher - Kubernetes-based platforms reimagined

Szymon Madej | TrustRadius Reviewer
Szymon Madej
DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices
PZU (Insurance, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Rancher best suits for installation at scale. There is no difference if you need a few very large clusters, or dozens or hundreds of tiny one. It helps to simplify repetetive Day-2 operations and maintenance or administrative tasks.In other hand Rancher is easy to install and hard to master. Learning by doing in Rancher is effective and very interesting, but takes a lot of time, so in small and simple environments it will not generate high ROI.
September 18, 2023

Orchestrate Kubernetes everywhere

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Rancher is perfect if you have to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters, especially if you have to provide them for different teams with their own access rights and requirements. With Rancher we can provide such clusters on-premise, even in different sites, and in the cloud on different hyperscalers.
If you only have to manage one or some few Kubernetes clusters, it would surely be too much overhead to use Rancher.
September 15, 2023

Rancher

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Non-profit Organization Management Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Originally we came from SUSE CaaSP and were "forced" into Rancher. In retrospect, this was a good decision, Rancher comes with everything we need and - if we exclude the last releases (e.g. 2.7.5) - it's pretty stable too. With the fleet integration, we can pretty much deploy a new cluster with all managed services we provide we just a few clicks.
May 29, 2023

SUSE Rancher: Perfect Tool for Kubernetes Management

AR
Aman Rawal
Senior Software Engineer
Web Bakers (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
I will highly recommend Rancher to companies or individuals working on multiple Kubernetes clusters. Rancher will help in easily creating and upgrading the clusters. you can easily setup production grade monitoring by just one click with Prometheus and Grafana. You can also create users with fine grain permissions to protect your cluster from un-authorised access.
April 20, 2023

Review for Suse Rancher

Saikat Saha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Saikat Saha
Infra Architect
Cognizant (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
In case of Container management, It is recommended to use Suse Rancher. It is good to use this in cloud environment. It is easy to manage there. It is not recommended to use in the on-premises environment. We have mnay limited use cases for the on-premises environment for Suse Rancher.
July 27, 2022

SUSE Rancher is all you need to run Kubernetes

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
SUSE Rancher is well suited if you want a stable system to start fast Kubernetes adoption. You can learn a long time, you don't need to be a Kubernetes expert in the beginning. I would like to be able to backup Rancher namespaces and projects. Now it's possible to backup only whole clusters.
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
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.
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
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.
February 24, 2022

Gather Up Your Cloud Cattle with Rancher

Kim Aaltonen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kim Aaltonen
Managing Director
Datalounges Oy (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
February 17, 2022

Rancher - A Comprehensive Kubernetes Platform

AB
Ajinkya Bapat
DevOps Consultant
Infogain (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Rancher is best suited for: multi-cloud deployments, fleet management, integration with Git-Ops toolchain, stable release channels, better visibility into cluster through UI Multi-cluster monitoring, RBAC & Authentication with AD & LDAP, simplicity with which we are able to update multi-node clusters, RKE2 & no dependency on Docker, and no vendor lock-in.
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
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.
February 03, 2022

Worth the effort to set up

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
SUSE Rancher is an excellent platform to automate and secure your Kubernetes implementations from a central management platform. Thank goodness the SUSE Rancher community gives many examples and helps to get you on your way with the setup. If you don't have a handle on how Kubernetes works, let alone multiple installations, this probably would be overkill and you could stay simple until you're ready to grow.
January 24, 2022

Round'em up!

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
rancher is great for managing multiple clusters. in a prod environment, it is recommended to have a dedicated cluster for ranchers. The downside of managing a small cluster that changes rarely is there is a significant overhead to manage ranchers in a smaller setup. Rancher is designed to manage multi clusters. and does so efficiently.
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