SUSE Rancher Reviews & Ratings 2024

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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…

Rancher - Kubernetes-based platforms reimagined

10 out of 10

February 13, 2024

We are using Rancher at corporate scale: multiple cluster, tens of projects, 300 Namespaces, 500 applications developers and …

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 …

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 …

SUSE Rancher: Perfect Tool for Kubernetes Management

9 out of 10

May 29, 2023

We work with multiple clients and by the time we have multiple cluster hosted on multiple cloud platforms. It's very difficult to manage …

Review for Suse Rancher

10 out of 10

April 20, 2023

I am using Suse Rancher to manage Kubernetes system. This has a good Graphical user interface to Manage the Kubernetes Cluster. We are …

SUSE Rancher is all you need to run Kubernetes

10 out of 10

July 27, 2022

We use SUSE Rancher to run Kubernetes production workloads.
We chose Rancher because:
+) It's easy to manage users and their permissions.
+) …

Using Rancher as Kubernetes Dashboard and Cluster Management for Developers

9 out of 10

March 30, 2022

Incentivized

We needed a web dashboard software for our AWS EKS development clusters on Kubernetes with granular user access connected to our SSO and …

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.

Open Source K8s Management Solution - Great for Bare Metal Installations

10 out of 10

March 14, 2022

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. …

Gather Up Your Cloud Cattle with Rancher

7 out of 10

February 24, 2022

Incentivized

Customers of Datalounges build, maintain and manage cloud native applications on a variety of Kubernetes platforms. Often these are …

Rancher - A Comprehensive Kubernetes Platform

9 out of 10

February 17, 2022

Incentivized

We use SUSE Rancher in our organization for managing our Production environment which consists of multiple K8s Clusters. We also use …

Managing and controlling your Kubernetes cluster in a simple way

9 out of 10

February 09, 2022

The main use of SUSE Rancher has been to easily manage different Kubernetes clusters using different environments. One of the main …

Worth the effort to set up

9 out of 10

February 03, 2022

We currently use SUSE Rancher as a consolidated service for our Kubernetes developmental endeavors. We're relatively new to the platform …

Choose SUSE Rancher and be happy

9 out of 10

January 25, 2022

We use SUSE Rancher to help us and others with the management of Kubernetes clusters and the management of containers. The UI gives a …

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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REST API that can be used to integrate company services with Rancher
Still waiting for Project 2.0 feature with support of hierarchical Namespaces

Szymon Madej

DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices

PZU (Insurance, 10,001+ employees)

Easy rollout of Kubernetes Clusters
It would be nice to have best practices for the setup

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

8.6
Security and Isolation
(4) Ratings
Product provides effective tools to isolate containers, nodes, and clusters and protect them from threats.
9
Container Orchestration
(5) Ratings
The product’s ability to automate networking, deployment, scaling, and other container management functions.
9.5
Cluster Management
(5) Ratings
Product’s ability to centralize the management of multiple container or node clusters.
8.4
Storage Management
(4) Ratings
Product’s ability to allocate storage resources and manage both temporary and persistent data.
8.8
Resource Allocation and Optimization
(4) Ratings
Product’s ability to balance resource requirements, availability needs, and workload intensity to optimize resource usage.
9.3
Discovery Tools
(4) Ratings
Product provides methods (such as URIs or sortable lists) to easily find and access jobs, nodes, containers, or clusters.
8.3
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks
(5) Ratings
Product provides tools or functionality to deliver updates to containerized applications in ways that minimize the impact of errors, and revert updates that cause problems.
8.9
Self-Healing and Recovery
(4) Ratings
Product can be configured to automatically restart, replace, reschedule, kill, and validate jobs, containers, nodes, or clusters.
8.5
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
(5) Ratings
Product provides tools to manage performance, health, and other data related to containers or clusters. This could include analytics tools, logging tools, live dashboards, etc.

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Product Details

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FAQs

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 Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

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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March 30, 2022

Using Rancher as Kubernetes Dashboard and Cluster Management for Developers

Marcello Teodori

Senior Manager

Alfresco (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

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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

Amazon Web Services

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.