Rancher Software Review

Are you looking for a better way to maintain cloud agnostic environments? Will managing multiple Kubernetes clusters be a headache? Rancher has the remedy! Rancher wrangles together multiple Kubernetes deployments under centralized authentication, with secure access control. Let’s take a look at how Rancher is making the wild world-wide-web a little more manageable.

Universal Unity & Efficiency

Rancher supports single and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, hosted on-prem, public, or in a private cloud. Rancher offers Kubernetes-as-a-service, with an open-source model and cloud agnostic compatibility. Rancher will not only deploy new/existing clusters to any environment; it will unite these clusters centrally. GKE, RKE, EKS, on-prem VM’s – all securely managed as a single Kubernetes cloud! Built on Helm, leveraging Docker containers, Rancher deploys clusters with flexibility to multiple providers.

Simplify Kubernetes Clusters

Are you thinking, we don’t have time to keep up with AWS, Google, Azure, DigitalOcean, and Rackspace details! Will my team(s) need to learn these complex tools, or can we focus on our business initiatives? Rancher will accelerate growth, allow developers to innovate, and let you focus on what you do best. No need to write/edit complex YAML files. Rancher provides a well organized UI with easy-to-use features; to deploy, activate, import, and maintain clusters. Rancher also provides a tool (download) for those who prefer to use the command-line interface. Rancher will also accept existing Helm charts, to simplify the process and get you to production quickly.

Integration Increases Productivity

Rancher provides an out-of-the-box interface with centralized logging, to deploy workloads, and analyze metrics. Prometheus and Grafana provide detailed analytics on cluster(s) and workload metric(s). Rancher accepts a traditional syslog, kafka publishing, Elasticsearch, and fluentd with ease. Are you familiar with an existing interface, like DataDog? Wrangle it into Rancher! DataDog communicates with Rancher, without barking or bugs. Rancher knows your productivity is hinged on how quickly you can scale and adapt. The days of drudging through UAT with unorganized VM’s and missed release dates are over! Other platforms and products may want to lock you down with their services. Rancher is here to integrate and unlock the gates to future growth.

Benefits & Bridges

Rancher places the user on the bridge of a virtual starship; equipped with the tools, resources, metrics, and visibility to orchestrate Kubernetes clusters with efficiency. The web based UI is intuitive, quick-to-load, easy to navigate, and simple to add/deploy new clusters. Rancher invites you to join their community, build virtual bridges, and keep growing!