Rancher

Founded by Shannon Williams in 2014

Deploy, manage, and secure Kubernetes clusters across multiple clouds and on-premises datacenters

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You can use Rancher to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters from a single central interface across any cloud or local infrastructure. It gives your operations team tools to provision new clusters, enforce consistent security policies, and manage user access controls across diverse environments. Developers can deploy containerized workloads and monitor application health without having to handle low-level infrastructure tasks. By simplifying multi-cluster operations, it allows engineering organizations to deliver container services reliably, troubleshoot cluster performance issues, and maintain standard configurations across all production and testing deployments.

What Rancher does

Provision a new Kubernetes cluster on Amazon EKSAssign role-based access controls to developer groupsDeploy containerized applications from a Helm catalogRun a CIS security compliance scan on a clusterConfigure alerts for high CPU or memory utilizationUpgrade Kubernetes cluster node poolsImport existing external Kubernetes clusters into a unified dashboardCentralized management of multiple Kubernetes clusters across cloudsUnified authentication and role-based access control across all clustersAutomated cluster provisioning and lifecycle operationsIntegrated monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and GrafanaBuilt-in application catalog using Helm chartsSecurity policy enforcement and CIS benchmarkingSupport for edge, on-premises, and public cloud Kubernetes distributions

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Pricing model: Free trial

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