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…
Orchestrating your containerised micro-services with ease
Rancher - Kubernetes-based platforms reimagined
Orchestrate Kubernetes everywhere
Rancher
SUSE Rancher: Perfect Tool for Kubernetes Management
Review for Suse Rancher
SUSE Rancher is all you need to run Kubernetes
We chose Rancher because:
+) It's easy to manage users and their permissions.
+) …
Using Rancher as Kubernetes Dashboard and Cluster Management for Developers
SUSE Rancher review
Open Source K8s Management Solution - Great for Bare Metal Installations
Gather Up Your Cloud Cattle with Rancher
Rancher - A Comprehensive Kubernetes Platform
Managing and controlling your Kubernetes cluster in a simple way
Worth the effort to set up
Awards
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Popular Features
- Container Orchestration (7)9.393%
- Cluster Management (7)8.787%
- Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging (7)8.585%
- Update Rollouts and Rollbacks (7)7.979%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Subscription license
7,594.99
Standard Subscription
11,234.99
Priority Subscription
30,514.99
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
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
Product Demos
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Deploying F5 BIG-IP & NGINX with SUSE Rancher
Understanding Continuous Delivery in SUSE Rancher (Demo)
Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres (FEP) SUSE Rancher Demo
Getting started with SUSE Rancher and Ondat persistent storage
Deploy and manage Linux - SLE Micro and SLE Micro for SUSE Rancher
Features
Container Management
Features commonly found in Container Management software.
- 8.5Security and Isolation(6) Ratings
Product provides effective tools to isolate containers, nodes, and clusters and protect them from threats.
- 9.3Container Orchestration(7) Ratings
The product’s ability to automate networking, deployment, scaling, and other container management functions.
- 8.7Cluster Management(7) Ratings
Product’s ability to centralize the management of multiple container or node clusters.
- 7.9Storage Management(6) Ratings
Product’s ability to allocate storage resources and manage both temporary and persistent data.
- 8.5Resource Allocation and Optimization(6) Ratings
Product’s ability to balance resource requirements, availability needs, and workload intensity to optimize resource usage.
- 8.1Discovery Tools(6) Ratings
Product provides methods (such as URIs or sortable lists) to easily find and access jobs, nodes, containers, or clusters.
- 7.9Update Rollouts and Rollbacks(7) 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.
- 8.7Self-Healing and Recovery(6) Ratings
Product can be configured to automatically restart, replace, reschedule, kill, and validate jobs, containers, nodes, or clusters.
- 8.5Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging(7) 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.
Product Details
- About
- Tech Details
- FAQs
What is SUSE Rancher?
SUSE Rancher Video
SUSE Rancher Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Comparisons
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(32)Attribute Ratings
Reviews
(1-17 of 17)SUSE Rancher Review
- Simplifies K8
- Easy to use UI
- Offers a CLI
- Upgrades are slow
- Lack of standards
- UI can be glitchy/slow
Multicloud/Multitenant Deployments: SUSE Rancher excels in managing Kubernetes clusters across multiple providers. It provides a consistent experience across all tenants.
Prod Workloads: Organizations use SUSE Rancher to run Kubernetes production workloads. The interface simplifies management and devs don’t need to be familiar with kubectl or K8 in general.
Less Appropriate Scenarios:
Limited Staff Expertise: If your team lacks K8 expertise, the complexity of managing clusters might be difficult.
Minimal/Small Infrastructure: If you have minimal infrastructure SUSE Rancher’s benefits may not be fully unlocked.
- Orchestration
- Security
- Easy to manage
- Setup process of SUSE Rancher v2 much more complex than v1
- Less suited to small organisations
- Steep learning curve
Rancher - Kubernetes-based platforms reimagined
- 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
Orchestrate Kubernetes everywhere
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
If you only have to manage one or some few Kubernetes clusters, it would surely be too much overhead to use Rancher.
Rancher
- 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
- Cluster management
- Cluster Monitoring
- User Management
- Backup
- Support for EKS Fargate is not available
- GitOps tool need some improvement
Review for 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
SUSE Rancher is all you need to run Kubernetes
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.
- 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
SUSE Rancher review
- Management of cluster
- Monitoring of clusters
- AD integration
- Ease of use
- The GUI is lite confusing
- 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
Gather Up Your Cloud Cattle with Rancher
- 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
Rancher - A Comprehensive Kubernetes Platform
- 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
Managing and controlling your Kubernetes cluster in a simple way
- 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.
Worth the effort to set up
- Automates processes
- Centralized security
- Makes provisioning easier
- Sometimes encounter logging bugs
- Metadata connection troubleshooting
- Meeting deployment requirements
Choose SUSE Rancher and be happy
- Great UI
- Multiple clusters into one dashboard
- Deployment of a new cluster
- Update/upgrade
- CI/CD
Round'em up!
- 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