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Good kubernetes management system
What do you like best about the product?
Provides a good UI wrapper around Kubernetes and makes easy to use. Has a good layer of access management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Needs access to the internet. Cost it a little high.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It was complicated to run Kubernetes by itself. With the wrapper is visually appealing and makes it easier to maintain.
Solid k8s tool
What do you like best about the product?
It's super easy to deploy k8s cluster with Rancher; you don't need to be a hardcore devops guy to do it. Visibility is key; junior staff can manage it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really, it's getting better with every release.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
K8S for tests and production enviroment deployement and management
Ease of Deployment
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of deployment
Openness across more than one platform
Support from the Rancher team
Openness across more than one platform
Support from the Rancher team
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation not always easy to follow or find
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
facilitate cluster deployment across multiple platforms
Strong production grade Kubernetes distribution
What do you like best about the product?
- Simplicity to manage multiple K8s clusters
- Near upstream Kubernetes architecture of Rancher RKE clusters
- Ranchers support of multiple public cloud / on-prem infrastructures
- RKE2 will bring Rancher to the next level: Removal of Docker (replaced by containerd), hardened setup, etc.
- Rancher's user authentification & authorization via AD, LDAP, OpenID Connect, etc.
- Simplicity up upgrade Kubernetes clusters via Rancher
- Near upstream Kubernetes architecture of Rancher RKE clusters
- Ranchers support of multiple public cloud / on-prem infrastructures
- RKE2 will bring Rancher to the next level: Removal of Docker (replaced by containerd), hardened setup, etc.
- Rancher's user authentification & authorization via AD, LDAP, OpenID Connect, etc.
- Simplicity up upgrade Kubernetes clusters via Rancher
What do you dislike about the product?
- Fleet: Why do we need another GitOps solution instead of using existing ones like ArgoCD & co.?
- I miss that Rancher does not provide a self-maintaining master/worker OS like CoreOS, Flatcar Container Linux & co.
- I miss that Rancher does not provide a self-maintaining master/worker OS like CoreOS, Flatcar Container Linux & co.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rancher helps to quickly deploy and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters from a single control plane
Kubernetes the easy way.
What do you like best about the product?
I think Rancher is one of the simplest ways to get a production-ready Kubernetes Cluster up and running. When I remember right, only a few well-documented commands were necessary to set up the cluster and get it up and running. A few more Clicks and config entries in the Rancher GUI then enabled monitoring, logging (with an already setup Backend for the logging data), and a storage solution (longhorn).
A later run kube-hunter didn't show severe problems regarding the security, even though I mainly used standard entries.
The Rancher community and employees were also constructive in answering questions or providing how-tos (line for MetalLB), making implementing those solutions straightforward.
A later run kube-hunter didn't show severe problems regarding the security, even though I mainly used standard entries.
The Rancher community and employees were also constructive in answering questions or providing how-tos (line for MetalLB), making implementing those solutions straightforward.
What do you dislike about the product?
In a HA setup, the overhead on Nodes you need for the Clusters themselves is pretty high (assuming the use of RKE and etcd):
Three nodes for the Rancher Cluster
Five nodes for the downstream clusters (2 for the Control plane and 3 for etcd ) + x nodes for the workload
Other than that - Rancher makes me too spoiled and lazy to look for other add-ins and solutions that Rancher does not prepare ;)
Three nodes for the Rancher Cluster
Five nodes for the downstream clusters (2 for the Control plane and 3 for etcd ) + x nodes for the workload
Other than that - Rancher makes me too spoiled and lazy to look for other add-ins and solutions that Rancher does not prepare ;)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am running a complicated application using some available products and some self-written code in containers. Benefits were a stable and easy to setup/maintain infrastructure.
Fits everywhere!
What do you like best about the product?
Based on standards, no vendor lock-in, fits everywhere, manages everything and everywhere!
What do you dislike about the product?
I haven't found anything very critical yet! When multi-tenancy is in place, everything is pretty good!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There were multiple Kubernetes platforms, no standard tool to manage them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There is a lot of demand for Rancher kind of solution. If your environment is "mixed" between private, hybrid, cloud, hyperscalers, etc. - then you should look especially Rancher!
Get in control of your container orchestration infrastructure
What do you like best about the product?
Comprehensive management capabilities across various use cases, ease of deployment, and straightforward to get to value quickly. Not that many tools out there that are useful when systematizing the Kubernetes-related management tasks. The platform, the tools and the community are great to work with and provide plenty of opportunities.
What do you dislike about the product?
More work on deployable apps still needed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are managing and controlling Public Cloud Kubernetes deployments and systematizing on-premise Kubernetes management for our own infrastructure and customers.
If you want to start with Kubernetes, use Rancher
What do you like best about the product?
A good GUI to show what's going on. It helps you get started with Kubernetes, even when you don't have a large IT department.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much. It's getting better every iteration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can do deployments much faster now. Also, the visibility of our deployments for (non-techie) teammates is much better.
A great container management platform for ages!
What do you like best about the product?
It's cross-cloud compatibility.
Its multi-host docker-compose support.
Its multi-host docker-compose support.
What do you dislike about the product?
A bit pricy support.
No ability to see, edit and manage CRDs from the GUI.
No ability to see, edit and manage CRDs from the GUI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Rancher, I can connect to Containers, Manage Disks, Deploy Load Balancers.
We have about ~30 rancher-provisioned clusters, and it works nearly perfectly. The only issues we had were that of all our nodes; one node once got disconnected after a Kubernetes upgrade initiated by Rancher.
We have about ~30 rancher-provisioned clusters, and it works nearly perfectly. The only issues we had were that of all our nodes; one node once got disconnected after a Kubernetes upgrade initiated by Rancher.
Complexity made easy with flexibility built in
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that Rancher can be deployed in its most basic way in a matter of minutes and upgrading clusters is stable and working exceptionally well
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of documentation regarding in-depth cluster configurations (namely, how to change or define the cluster networks and why single project networks are 255 IPs)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Large scale cluster management between private, public cloud, and bare metal
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you read up on rancher and test it.. testing it and getting familiar with it is a simple docker command and it really makes you want to work with it
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