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Contain your containers with Rancher
What do you like best about the product?
* 100% open source
* Easy to install and use
* Not tied to any particular Kubernetes platform
* There seems to be a good community around Rancher offering support and training
I can see why SUSE bought the company and I'm looking forward to seeing how things develop, particularly with their Harvester product.
* Easy to install and use
* Not tied to any particular Kubernetes platform
* There seems to be a good community around Rancher offering support and training
I can see why SUSE bought the company and I'm looking forward to seeing how things develop, particularly with their Harvester product.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's still early days but nothing so far - hopefully that will continue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm trying Rancher to help with running and managing a Kubernetes cluster.
Kubernetes should not be complicated: meet SUSE/Rancher
What do you like best about the product?
All the projects are thought with the end-user in mind. Be it Ops or Devs. Rancher, the project, is one of the best UIs to manage the often complex Kubernetes clusters.
At the same time, K3s has become by far one of the Kubernetes distributions the most used and loved by the community.
Last but not least, the SUSE Rancher employees are very knowledgeable and take time to listen to the customers.
At the same time, K3s has become by far one of the Kubernetes distributions the most used and loved by the community.
Last but not least, the SUSE Rancher employees are very knowledgeable and take time to listen to the customers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Right now, nothing in special. I'm really waiting on seeing what SUSE and Rancher can accomplish together and hoping that "corporate" does not kill the innovation both companies are known for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The abstration the Rancher projects have, allows me to learn and demo Kubernetes in a very easier way.
K3s is also very tiny and fast, which allows me to test it on Edge cases (read: WSL, RasperyPi, Smaller cloud instances)
K3s is also very tiny and fast, which allows me to test it on Edge cases (read: WSL, RasperyPi, Smaller cloud instances)
A great tool to manage your k8s envs
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to manage multiple kubernetes clusters with one interface
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing so far, I haven't found any real thing yet
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To have different kubernetes providers. Rancher provides me with the same UX for all my k8s envs
The Royal Road to Kubernetes
What do you like best about the product?
Rancher2 is many things. It is a GUI that can sit in front of your Kubernetes cluster, regardless if it was created by Rancher, RKE, kubeadm or whatever. It offers a curated lists of k8s, which allows for smooth upgrades in-place (if you've done it with kubeadm, you get what I mean). It allows for RBAC without needing to read a lot about it when you begin your k8s journey. It makes your life easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not like it that the non-HA solution runs a k3s inside a container. It is essentially a black-box that if things go wrong, you cannot easily decide what to do next to salvage it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast deployment of bare-metal k8s clusters
A good management tool for Kubernete's complexities
What do you like best about the product?
Rancher greatly simplifies management of Kubernetes for our multi-tenant cluster. It comes with a built-in user management system, and can isolate teams by using Projects. All of this is very difficult to do with Kubernetes by itself.
The Kubernetes ecosystem is immense-- too large really, and each layer of the Kubernetes stack requires you to evaluate different products for every single layer-- the decision paralysis is real! Rancher simplifies this by providing some good choices out of the box-- Canal for the network driver, Prometheus/Grafana/Rancher Alerts for monitoring & alerting, a Rancher Logging front-end to configure your Network driver. Their choices save me time and let me focus on the needs of my users, not the needs of Kubernetes.
The Kubernetes ecosystem is immense-- too large really, and each layer of the Kubernetes stack requires you to evaluate different products for every single layer-- the decision paralysis is real! Rancher simplifies this by providing some good choices out of the box-- Canal for the network driver, Prometheus/Grafana/Rancher Alerts for monitoring & alerting, a Rancher Logging front-end to configure your Network driver. Their choices save me time and let me focus on the needs of my users, not the needs of Kubernetes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Rancher before 2.4 was not quite ready for production-- crashes and instability were common. This has improved in Rancher 2.4+.
The documentation is split between Rancher Server and RKE, which are two different products, and you need to read both to understand some configuration options.
Rancher's support for bare metal environments is a little bare-- there is no built-in Layer-4 loadbalancer like you would have with AWS ELB or other clouds. This is a critical, missing component.
The documentation is split between Rancher Server and RKE, which are two different products, and you need to read both to understand some configuration options.
Rancher's support for bare metal environments is a little bare-- there is no built-in Layer-4 loadbalancer like you would have with AWS ELB or other clouds. This is a critical, missing component.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kubernetes is for a small group, but for a larger installation, Kubernete's complexity becomes difficult to manage. You need to think about user-RBAC, which isn't built into Kubernetes, integrating with a monitoring program such as Prometheus & Grafana-- all of that becomes a burden. Every level of the stack comes with an ecosystem full of choices, and you end up spending your entire time *evaluating* Kubernetes instead of *using* Kubernetes.
Rancher makes many of those choices for you, and saves time so you can focus on the real goal-- allowing the team to use the product.
Rancher makes many of those choices for you, and saves time so you can focus on the real goal-- allowing the team to use the product.
excellent software to orchestrate kubernetes
What do you like best about the product?
rancher allows to orchestrate more kubernetes clusters, integrates logging and alarms.
it can be installed both in single node and in high reliability.
it can be installed both in single node and in high reliability.
What do you dislike about the product?
installation procedure of rancher in high reliability is not really simple, you need to do more steps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we use rancher for development installations and for those on premises. with this software we can easily orchestrate, schedule and monitor all kubernetes workloads.
the orchestrators orchestrator easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
rancher allows you to easily install and maintain complex container orchestration systems
What do you dislike about the product?
the community is very active but the guides and tutorials on the use of this tool are not many. offline installation is not easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
thanks to this tool we install and maintain kuberbetes clusters quickly and easily.
Best Container management platform
What do you like best about the product?
- It's easy to use UI
- Very good technical docs
- V2 is running on Kubernetes
- Takes the complexity out of Kubernetes
- Multi-cluster management
- Very good technical docs
- V2 is running on Kubernetes
- Takes the complexity out of Kubernetes
- Multi-cluster management
What do you dislike about the product?
- Not possible to upgrade/downgrade from alpha release to stable
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had to implement Kubernetes and Rancher was the perfect Software for our use case.
Product Review - Rancher
What do you like best about the product?
Rancher 2.x is the one of best tools which gives you a lot of out of box solutions with kubernetes.
Rancher 2.x introduced pipelines as well which can be integrated as CI system and then CD on Rancher only.
Another good thing, with rancher you get lot of different options when setting up a cluster like various options for clouds(AWS,Bare Metal, Digital Ocean, Custom, Azure) means where exactly you nodes are lying.
With Rancher it's very easy to setup a multi clusters for different teams in a bigger organisation and you will be able to control form a single place.
They handle container networking very well and lot of network drivers are available.
Team behind rancher is very good
Rancher 2.x introduced pipelines as well which can be integrated as CI system and then CD on Rancher only.
Another good thing, with rancher you get lot of different options when setting up a cluster like various options for clouds(AWS,Bare Metal, Digital Ocean, Custom, Azure) means where exactly you nodes are lying.
With Rancher it's very easy to setup a multi clusters for different teams in a bigger organisation and you will be able to control form a single place.
They handle container networking very well and lot of network drivers are available.
Team behind rancher is very good
What do you dislike about the product?
Rancher 2.x still not able to pull images from private docker registeres and have to pull it before we upgrade a rancher or install it. May be I am doing wrong but have to use a shell script which is pulling the images.
Another thing, performance gets affected at a higher load due to lot of hung threads of websockets.
Another thing, performance gets affected at a higher load due to lot of hung threads of websockets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to have a platform where we can configure multiple kubernetes clusters and easy to manage from a single place. And even to have a cluster in which nodes are lying on the different clouds as well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's an open source product where you can have multiple clusters at one place and that too each cluster in an isolation without interfering each other.
Product Review - Rancher
What do you like best about the product?
Best part of Rancher is Rancher2.0 which is totally kubernetes and there is no need to setup manual kubernetes otherwise the documentation of kubernetes is very bad to setup.
Rancher provides lot of orchestration engine supports as well like Mesos, Cattle, Docker Swarm.
Rancher 2.0 has enabled the pipelines options as well which supports Github as well as Gitlab which is kinda out of box solution
Rancher provides lot of orchestration engine supports as well like Mesos, Cattle, Docker Swarm.
Rancher 2.0 has enabled the pipelines options as well which supports Github as well as Gitlab which is kinda out of box solution
What do you dislike about the product?
Whenever the load increases, the performance degraded. Web sockets are not really reliable in Rancher UI due to which sometimes we are not able to open a shell on the Rancher UI for containers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to host multiple environments(Multiple Kubernetes Clusters isolated for each Team) on a single platform so that it can be easy to manage from a single platform otherwise we have to go to different tools and have to setup that
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Every Company which is handling lot of different teams and they want a isolated environment for every team . Lets say for every project as well. They should use rancher as it has various layers of Isolation starting from environment then Project then Kubernetes Namespaces.
Other best thing, For running docker containers you don't have to go via Command Line. You can do everything via UI which is like User friendly. Various operations like ssh into Container, start container, read logs , etc..
Other best thing, For running docker containers you don't have to go via Command Line. You can do everything via UI which is like User friendly. Various operations like ssh into Container, start container, read logs , etc..
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