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If your organisation isn’t deploying Kubernetes clusters now, chances are it will eventually. And if it is doing so already, the likelihood is that you will look to maximise them as much as you can. This open-source system, after all, is perfect for building cloud-native applications, whether for public, private or hybrid cloud as it automatically orchestrates and manages containerised applications. As a result, Kubernetes enables automated deployment, management and scaling, thus making the entire process faster, easier and more efficient.

It is not for nothing that software developers, DevOps professionals, operations teams and IT leaders now view Kubernetes as an outright market leader that enables faster innovation and agility. Deploying Kubernetes, in turn, is a key enabler of digital transformation by allowing the quick and predictable deployment of applications, on-the-fly scaling of said applications and seamless rollout of new features. It even ensures hardware usage for required resources only.

Those benefits, however, depend largely on your organisation’s ability to manage and operate Kubernetes clusters you have deployed, so as to ensure consistency in workload management, operations and enterprise-grade security everywhere—at the core, in the cloud and at the edge.

Enter SUSE Rancher, SUSE’s open-source Kubernetes Management solution that unifies your clusters so you can fully maximise your Kubernetes environment.

SUSE Rancher saves you time and effort by simplifying everything;  It provides infrastructure freedom so you can easily manage, secure, and operate your hosted clusters, improves your security posture through strengthened security and compliance capabilities and gives you greater confidence to build your apps and scale your environments.

The SUSE Rancher Advantage

SUSE Rancher offers four distinct advantages. Firstly, it supports all CNCF-certified Kubernetes distributions including but not limited to Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) for on-prem workloads and hyper-scale distributions including EKS, AKS and GKE and k3s for edge deployments. Secondly, it simplifies IT operations by enabling users with an easy consistent cluster operational experience from provisioning, monitoring and alerting of clusters, whilst providing consistent visibility and diagnostics, and simplified version management and centralised audit capabilities across each environment.

Thirdly, SUSE Rancher provides robust security and risk management features. SUSE Rancher consolidates user management, policy and security requirements within the management platform helping operators to minimise user error whilst building robust templates and supportive environments for developers to build within. Lastly, it offers shared tools and services, with an expansive catalogue that will allow developers to confidently build, deploy, and scale any containerised applications, with tools including app packaging, monitoring, logging, CI/CD and service mesh.

The Main Features of SUSE Rancher

The SUSE Rancher’s market-leading advantage is made possible by these four key features;

1. Streamlined Day 2 Kubernetes Operations. SUSE Rancher is extremely easy to set up and use, helping you deal with all aspects of Day 2 operations in a centralised manner, from monitoring clusters in any location, upgrading Kubernetes versions, to backing up etcd and recovering degraded clusters – all from a single console.
2. Full Lifecycle Management for Hosted Kubernetes Clusters. Running on SUSE Rancher guarantees superior reliability and security for your mission-critical workloads and ensures full lifecycle management of the most popular cloud-hosted distributions including EKS, AKS and GKE. With it, you can provision, import, configure, secure and upgrade clusters across various providers directly using a unified, intuitive user experience — all, again, from a single pane of glass.
3. Centralised Kubernetes Security. SUSE Rancher allows admins and security teams to not only specify how users should interact with managed Kubernetes clusters but also how containerised workloads should operate. Once these policies are defined, they can be assigned instantaneously to any Kubernetes cluster to help them build secure, scalable environments for developers to build their cloud-native applications.
4. GitOps at Scale for Edge Clusters. SUSE Rancher incorporates Continuous Delivery to enable maximum cluster consistency everywhere, from the core to the cloud and to the edge. It can also support a large number of Kubernetes clusters through Fleet, architected specifically to manage millions of geographically distributed clusters and scale Kubernetes much farther than known standards. This streamlines application delivery across infrastructures, thus enabling and accelerating your CI/CD operations.

Leverage Rancher In Your Digital Future

A best-of-breed solution like Kubernetes deserves a best-in-class complement that is SUSE Rancher, the unifier of Kubernetes clusters and enabler of digital transformation. It goes without saying then that it is in your organisation’s best interest to deploy Kubernetes now and to unify it with SUSE Rancher before the march to digital leaves your business in the dust — light years behind those that have transformed digitally already.

To find out how you can do so, click here to visit the SUSE Rancher page. You can also click here to get started with SUSE’s pioneering Kubernetes management offering.

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