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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.
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
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
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.
kubernetes management tool
What do you like best about the product?
that is able to integrate with kubernetes and manage all its clusters
What do you dislike about the product?
the port assignment is not consistent with software
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ONAP deployment
Container Orchestration Without the Headache
What do you like best about the product?
Hard to pick one thing I like best because the beauty of Rancher lies in how well it ties together many different features to make up one of the most complete, usable container orchestration platforms available. In particular, the API is very intuitive for building custom tooling against, and the UI gives me a complete view of my infrastructure from the container level down to the hardware itself.
What do you dislike about the product?
After continued use, the web UI can become extremely slow to the point that I have to close my browser and re-open it in order to perform basic administration tasks. This has been a source of frustration, but my understanding is that newer versions of Rancher have addressed this (we currently run v1.2).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rancher is our go-to control panel for simple, failsafe container deployments. We initially chose Rancher because it allowed us the flexibility to switch between many different container scheduling platforms (Mesos, Swarm, Kubernetes, and Cattle). As all of these solutions were very new, this flexibility gave us the confidence to move to a container-based infrastructure without the fear that we were investing in a container scheduling platform that might soon become obsolete. I do believe that v2+ of Rancher only integrates with Kubernetes, however I don't see this as a loss of flexibility as much as an indication that it has become a clear winner among the previously supported platforms. Since adopting Rancher, we've seen a significant reduction in downtime, since healthchecks and automatic rescheduling keep our systems healthy with very little manual intervention.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The current major release of Rancher (2.0 at this time) is built exclusively on top of Kubernetes. If you are considering Rancher, I would recommend becoming familiar with Kubernetes administration as well.
Rancher brings all your docker containers and hosts into one manageable place!
What do you like best about the product?
Rancher seems to be one of many few products which can bring docker hosts into one manageable interface and provides the ability to deploy stack's as opposed to just individual containers.
You can provide dockers at service level and not worry so much about the infrastructure behind them and is more of a service offering.
Its very easy to setup. The best bit I love is all you need to do is execute one command on any hosts you want to bring into rancher and docker automatically downloads and runs an 'Agent' image and automatically connects to your rancher host. From here you can even go out through firewalls as its client to server connection. A brilliant way of implementing such tool!
You can provide dockers at service level and not worry so much about the infrastructure behind them and is more of a service offering.
Its very easy to setup. The best bit I love is all you need to do is execute one command on any hosts you want to bring into rancher and docker automatically downloads and runs an 'Agent' image and automatically connects to your rancher host. From here you can even go out through firewalls as its client to server connection. A brilliant way of implementing such tool!
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't a great deal to dislike but over anything it would be that i've not found a way to move a container from one host to another - now that would be cool! Even better if it were drag and drop :) but otherwise its brilliant.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rancher has provided a brilliant ability to implement multiple hosts and manage them all within one infrastructure. Even Rancher can run inside one of the hosts its managing! In my opinion this has to be the leading tool for docker users.
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