Rancher is the best ever platform which helps to manage the teams their Kubernetes. The most important thing I like in Rancher is centralized authentication and do the deployments on the clouds independently. Also it allows to optimize the reliable infrastructure that has helped a lot to our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is some steep curve here in Rancher which doesn't support much to nre comers. Also Rancher is best wherever I found to be perfect. Only support that it needs is to elevate use of ease for new joiners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rancher makes handling containers simple by integrating with several platforms. Rancher Desktop made it straightforward to switch from Docker Desktop to a containerd-based one. It also improves our understanding of our container configuration by masking the more technical portions of Kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't discovered any major issues yet, however it does log me out by itself after a while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My first approach to Rancher were when I have almost 5 years of expertise in building and maintaining Kubernetes-based platforms at large enterprise scale (multiple cluster, tens of projects, 300 Namespaces, 500 applications developers and administrators, thousands of Business users and clients etc.)

What I noticed the most is how complete the vision of this product is. We also considered two other main market competitors of Rancher. From the great three, only Rancher has very soft dependencies with other SUSE products. You can choose to use them (for example: Longhorn, NeuVector, KubeWarden, Harvester) but you are not forced to do so to gain full functionality of Rancher.

Rancher is like Kubernetes on steroids: easy to install and learn, hard to master but have very high ROI. Some functionalities takes months to master, but will return that time when there is high Frequency of use of them in Day-2 operations (i.e. good configuration of some infrastructure providers takes months and requires implementing changes at infrastructure layer, but when finished gives possibility to create dozens of downstream clusters in minutes).

I love it's simple subscription model, as much as I cherish that it is fully open source. If you don't know what I mean then try to "install to learn" approach with two main Rancher's market competitors... it's not possible, the closest you get is "try and buy", yuck!

Rancher provides a very well documented REST API, so it can be easily integrate your services with it i.e. We have implemented self-service of Namespace lifecycle (create/quota mgmt/delete) that integrates Rancher's authentication and authorization model wth our corporate propetriary IAM solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rancher has well-known roadmap with many functionalities planned, but some of them are neverending stories (i.e. We are waiting for "Projects 2.0" feature with implementation of hierarchical namespaces for over 1,5 year and it still will be available "soon").

Some internal modules are more mature than other. That is well seen on Rancher's drivers for different infrastructure and cloud providers.

Rancher is easy to implement within public cloud, but it's implementation in secure corporate air-gapped on-premise environment is uneven (some things are easy and well documented, some will bring one a lot of new grey hairs).

The multiple speeds of development of different Rancher's functionalities can lead to many breaking changes between releases, so administrators have a lot of work with every upgrade. Rancher is stable corporate-grade sofware, but every company that want to implement it at scale must have a very professional and well educated team of administrators and/or devopses.

That last but not least, the Customer Support is... the same as everywhere else in the world. Don't hesitate to open support tickets (that's the main reason you bought the subscriptions, right?), but also don't assume that they will resolve all of your problems in no time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stackstate as K8 observability software is easy to use and is thus easily adopted by our tech teams. Mainly because because of the out of the box monitors and remediation guides. Fast time-to-value for 'regular' engineers. And: quite easy to implement.

The level and responsiveness of the tech support of the Stackstate team is also remarkable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No dislikes or downsides yet.

One management feature was missing, which was really important for our operational teams: our request was quickly roadmapped. So Stackstate is acting fast when you have a request as a customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Good UI with detailed attention to every kubernetes manifest feature in the UI, ability to import multiple types of cluster be it k3s, AKS , EKS etc. central management of cluster with inbuilt fleet for GitOps and even integration of Elemental OS, Longhorn, partner helm chart and Harvestor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

fleet that comes inbuilt into it is not as mature as ArgoCD Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. rancher makes it easy to set up kubernetes clusters in a variety of settings.

2. it makes centralized access control and authentication easier.

3. the integration of helm and app catalog makes it easy to deploy and manage apps.

4. this streamlines devops processes, making sure they are all the same and cutting down on deployment mistakes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

rancher can be a very useful tool, but it has a steep learning curve for beginners. my understanding of how to use all of its features correctly took some time to develop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We often used Docker earlier but when it was no more open source we want some good reliable alternative, we found rancher the best fit, we can have customizable installation process, it really helped us to run the same docker command, which I loved the most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel when rancher desktop run for couple of hour it really took really good amount of ram which cause some slowness. So we can optimize the memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is installed easily via command line or the official helm chart, you can see in the UI the pods, deployments, node metrics, etc. It is a nice way for developers to have a quick view about what is deployed to the cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It proposes an imperative way of deploying applications using the Rancher customized helm charts. Some apps work with that way of deploying, others do not. Also, the official Rancher helm chart is always 2 major versions behind Kubernetes and if you want to uninstall it from your cluster, it always leaves unused resources and the unused namespaces cannot be deleted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. kubernetes cluster deployment and maintenance are made easier with rancher. 🙠️

2. its easy-to-use interface offers a centralised view of every cluster, making problem discovery quick. 🔎

3. tools for monitoring assist in being proactive and informed. 📊

4. time and effort are saved because to the vast array of ready-to-use applications ⌛ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

rancher occasionally lags, particularly when a large number of users are utilising it simultaneously. and if you're unfamiliar with it, it can be a little challenging to understand at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rancher is known for its usability, comprehensive administration capabilities for Kubernetes clusters, and its ability to streamline container orchestration tasks, making it popular among developers and DevOps teams. Users appreciate its intuitive interface and comprehensive toolset for deploying and managing containerized applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rancher testing because of its complexity, steep learning curve, or specific technical requirements. Additionally, like any software, it may have bugs or limitations that can be frustrating for users. Some users have mentioned issues such as complex configuration and setup, resource-intensive requirements, occasional security issues. Furthermore, some users may find its UI/UX not as intuitive as they'd like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.