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Best containerization software around
What do you like best about the product?
Rancher supports a number of systems that other containerization software does not.
Nodes are set out in an easy to read way, and the other views provide a lot of information.
Creating containers was much simpler than the other software products I've used, with plenty of useful features, like 'Health check'.
Rancher is open source, so does not cost anything
Nodes are set out in an easy to read way, and the other views provide a lot of information.
Creating containers was much simpler than the other software products I've used, with plenty of useful features, like 'Health check'.
Rancher is open source, so does not cost anything
What do you dislike about the product?
Installation and set-up was time and people consuming.
The sheer amount of features on offer may be off putting to new users.
More network information would have been good, such as CPU and RAM specs.
The sheer amount of features on offer may be off putting to new users.
More network information would have been good, such as CPU and RAM specs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Rancher for our main containers and clusters, as it provides much more functionality in comparison with the other products available.
Since Rancher is open source, the product is totally free, saving the University money!
Since Rancher is open source, the product is totally free, saving the University money!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very feature rich, so set some time out to train users on how to use the system correctly. It's also time consuming to instal / set up for the first time. Other than that Rancher will do everything you need it to!
A great tool for getting into docker orchestration
What do you like best about the product?
How easy Rancher was to get up and running. At the time we started using Rancher it had just reached 1.0 GA, and comparatively all of the other tools available like Docker Swarm seemed unnecessarily complex and more trouble than they were worth to use.
Rancher was easy to get setup, reliable, and made container orchestration a breeze.
Rancher was easy to get setup, reliable, and made container orchestration a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't much to dislike about Rancher. The high-availability feature could use some work. According tot the official docs as of version 1.5.x, there is still the following caveat when upgrading an HA Rancher server: "NOTE: When upgrading an HA setup, the Rancher server setup will be down during the upgrade." It seems like some work could be done to make the HA environment truly HA during the upgrade process.
Compared to other orchestration tools like, Kubernetes, it lacks some of the auto-scaling capabilities.
Compared to other orchestration tools like, Kubernetes, it lacks some of the auto-scaling capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rancher helped us increase our deployment time for new application versions. This has helped us innovate faster and deliver new features and/or bug fixes at a much quicker rate while utilizing the benefits on containers.
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