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Rancher
Manage all your Kubernetes clusters from a single unified platform.
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Container Orchestration Kubernetes Distributions
Overview
Rancher is a complete software stack for teams deploying containers in production using Kubernetes.
Key Features
- Multi-cluster management: import and manage EKS, AKS, GKE, and on-prem clusters
- Intuitive web UI for deploying and managing workloads across clusters
- Built-in authentication with Active Directory, GitHub, and LDAP
- Rancher Apps (Helm chart catalog) for one-click application deployment
- Monitoring and alerting stack pre-packaged with Prometheus and Grafana
- RKE2 and k3s distributions for creating new clusters
Real-World Workflows
Centralised multi-cloud Kubernetes management
- 1Deploy Rancher on a management cluster (or HA setup)
- 2Import existing EKS, AKS, and GKE clusters into Rancher
- 3Manage RBAC and access control for all clusters from one place
- 4Deploy the same application across clusters using Rancher's Fleet GitOps tool
- 5Monitor all clusters from a single Grafana dashboard
New cluster provisioning on bare metal
- 1Use the Rancher UI to provision a new RKE2 cluster on on-premises hosts
- 2Rancher installs and configures all Kubernetes components automatically
- 3Enable the monitoring app from the Rancher App Catalog
- 4Cluster is managed alongside cloud clusters in the same Rancher dashboard
Getting Started
docker run -d --restart=unless-stopped \ -p 80:80 -p 443:443 \ --privileged rancher/rancher # Visit https://localhost to set up Rancher
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