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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%

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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 7.8
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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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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Szymon Madej | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
  • 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
Saikat Saha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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.
Marcello Teodori | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
  • Management of cluster
  • Monitoring of clusters
  • AD integration
  • Ease of use
  • The GUI is lite confusing
Kim Aaltonen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • 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
Jose Manuel Ortega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Automates processes
  • Centralized security
  • Makes provisioning easier
  • Sometimes encounter logging bugs
  • Metadata connection troubleshooting
  • Meeting deployment requirements
January 24, 2022

Round'em up!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
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