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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
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.
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.
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.
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..
Product Review - Container Management Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Rancher is one of the best tool I used for Container management. The best part is Rancher 2.0 which is totally kubernetes.
Ease of setup:- You don't have to manually follow the steps to install kubernetes Cluster. Just run the rancher server and it will setup the whole cluster for you which is nothing but kubernetes.
Multiple Teams:- You can onboard multiple teams on this and can manage different clusters easily which can be (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos) .
You can easily achieve High Availability for the applications due to which you will there will be zero downtime for the application
Ease of setup:- You don't have to manually follow the steps to install kubernetes Cluster. Just run the rancher server and it will setup the whole cluster for you which is nothing but kubernetes.
Multiple Teams:- You can onboard multiple teams on this and can manage different clusters easily which can be (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos) .
You can easily achieve High Availability for the applications due to which you will there will be zero downtime for the application
What do you dislike about the product?
I find websockets sometimes create a problem in Rancher UI and person is not able to execute shell on the UI. Sometimes not able to view the logs on the Rancher UI for different containers.
Another thing, Inactive Environments degrades the performance of the Rancher due to long running queries which increases the pressure on the Database
Another thing, Inactive Environments degrades the performance of the Rancher due to long running queries which increases the pressure on the Database
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to create a single platform for the multiple teams to manage the containers and can do the orchestration in a manner so that we can achieve High Availability, Canary Release, Service Discovery , Auto Scaling kind of features to our applications.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Big companies should use this Container Management Platform if they are dealing with lot of different teams and they want a isolated infrastructure environment for them.
For a POC as well, it will not take much more time as it's easy to setup
For a POC as well, it will not take much more time as it's easy to setup
Great UI - Expanding
What do you like best about the product?
Simple, clean UI that delivers relevant information.
Easy to set up and manage, even manages multiple locations cleanly.
Easy to set up and manage, even manages multiple locations cleanly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Health checks, failovers, and alerting still have some room for growth. Can bake some precautions into the containers, but meta information isn't readily/easily accessible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing the VM's for our core and auxiliary web site services
Recommendations to others considering the product:
As Rancher continues to move to a kubernetes backbone - this product should continue to improve.
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