Today, Silicon Valley container management software provider Rancher Labs announced the official release of the company's milestone product, Rancher 2.0.
Rancher 2.0 is an open source Kubernetes management platform that provides Kubernetes-as-a-Service (Kubernetes-as-a-Service) for enterprise users, and Rancher 2.0 can achieve unified management of multiple Kubernetes clusters, no matter where or how these Kubernetes clusters are located. way to deploy. This creative unified management function will solve the dilemma of different infrastructures that enterprise users may face in production environments. Rancher 2.0 is the industry's first platform to uniformly manage Kubernetes services hosted on public clouds such as Google (GKE), Amazon (EKS), and Azure (AKS).
Rancher 2.0 implements a unified security policy, and has a simple and intuitive interface style and operation experience, which will greatly solve the long-standing problems of the Kubernetes native UI that are not easy to use and have a steep learning curve. With Rancher 2.0, enterprises have a more convenient way to implement Kubernetes in the production environment.
Rancher 2.0 is a major step forward in open source container management. Rancher 2.0 is ideal for businesses looking for a container management solution for hybrid environments.
- Steve Hendrick, Director of Research, EMA
A complete platform to accelerate the implementation of enterprise Kubernetes
Designed for organizations that favor containers, microservices, and Kubernetes, Rancher 2.0 increases the speed of development, enhances application reliability, and reduces infrastructure costs. The Rancher 2.0 platform consists of 3 core components:
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Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) . A Kubernetes distribution that can be deployed on any infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the cloud.
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Unified cluster management . A centralized management engine that enables IT departments to configure and enforce consistent security and management policies on any Kubernetes cluster, whether the cluster is running or not, whether it's a Rancher-deployed cluster, or a cloud provider's managed Kubernetes Serve.
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Application load management . Rancher Kubernetes has an intuitive and concise user interface, and also provides a series of extended functions such as enterprise application service catalog, real-time monitoring and alarming, logging, and CI/CD Pipeline.
By partnering with Rancher, we were able to migrate large-scale deployed virtual machines into containers, saving money and greatly improving the service we provide to our customers. We will start adopting Kubernetes in the next year, and the release of Rancher 2.0 is a big step forward. I believe Rancher 2.0 will greatly simplify the process of IBM's implementation of Kubernetes.
- Leon Katsnelson, Director and CTO, IBM Digital Business Group
Main advantages of Rancher 2.0
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Rapidly deploy Kubernetes clusters : Users can automatically create Kubernetes clusters through Rancher and easily extend the control plane and infrastructure through API, CLI or web UI. Once the cluster is configured, both admins and users in the organization can qualify for management, allowing teams to deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes clusters on any infrastructure.
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Unified management of Kubernetes clusters hosted on public clouds : Today, almost every major cloud provider offers managed Kubernetes services. With these services, users can set up Kubernetes clusters simply and quickly, with little ongoing maintenance in the future, as the cloud provider takes care of operating and upgrading Kubernetes. Rancher 2.0 is the first platform to provide consistent, centralized management of Kubernetes clusters hosted by various cloud providers. With Rancher 2.0, enterprises can apply standard security policies and centralized access controls with visibility into every Kubernetes cluster deployed in the organization.
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Central IT visibility and control : Kubernetes has been rapidly and massively adopted in the past year, and large-scale Kubernetes clusters have become very common. Enterprise users need to maintain consistent control over different versions and configurations of Kubernetes. Rancher 2.0 provides a sophisticated centralized authentication, access control, monitoring, alerting and policy management solution for IT administrators of enterprise users, whether on-premises or in a cloud-deployed Kubernetes cluster.
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Help developers and DevOps teams to accelerate the implementation of Kubernetes : With Rancher 2.0's simple and intuitive user interface, users can easily deploy services on Kubernetes and see everything running on the cluster. Users have access to common configuration options directly from the user interface, including defining scheduling rules, health checks, ingress controllers, secrets, storage, and other key configuration options. Advanced users can also use the full kubectl command line directly as well as Rancher's API and CLI.
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Application deployment and management : Rancher 2.0's enterprise application service catalog (Catalog) has been extended to support Docker Compose, Kubernetes templates and Helm charts, making complex application management and deployment in enterprise data centers as easy as using the AppStore. Users have access to community-contributed Helm charts and Rancher-certified application templates. Additionally, users can import and manage private application catalogs in Rancher 2.0 and share them with designated users.
Enterprise-level support
Rancher 2.0 is 100% open source software. For users looking for enterprise-level support, Rancher Labs provides complete, world-class support for containerized applications, including container engines, Kubernetes distributions, and the Rancher platform. Enterprise users can deploy in production environments of any scale with confidence Kubernetes and Rancher. Rancher Labs provides business subscription customers with strictly defined SLAs and 24/7 technical support, ensuring customers can have a smooth, frictionless, risk-free container experience in production environments.
Rancher Labs has completed 2 rounds of financing totaling US$30 million, and has hundreds of large and medium-sized government and enterprise customers worldwide, including Disney, IBM, Lego, USDA, SONY, Ping An, and HNA Group. A solid choice for enterprises planning to deploy Docker and Kubernetes in production. Currently, Rancher Labs has offices in the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, the Netherlands and other countries.
Liang Sheng, CEO and co-founder of Rancher Labs, said: "When we first started developing Rancher 2.0, we wanted to build a product that would allow users to manage all Kubernetes clusters on a single platform. We are more convinced than ever that Containers and Kubernetes will drive a new era of application portability, and I firmly believe that Rancher 2.0 will accelerate the implementation of Kubernetes in enterprise production environments."
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Official website:
www.rancher.com
GitHub link:
https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases
Rancher 2.0 deployment documentation:
https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/quick-start-guide/
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