SUSE Rancher Prime (Rancher Manager)

SUSE's Cloud Native product family introduces additional value with greater security assurances, extended lifecycles, access to focused architectures and Kubernetes advisories. It will also offer options to get production support for innovative Cloud Native projects. With SUSE's Cloud Native, installation assets are hosted on a trusted registry owned and managed by SUSE.

SUSE Rancher Prime is a complete container management platform for Kubernetes, giving you the tools to successfully run Kubernetes anywhere.

SUSE Rancher Prime can provision Kubernetes from a hosted provider, provision compute nodes and then install Kubernetes onto them, or import existing Kubernetes clusters running anywhere. It adds significant value on top of Kubernetes, first by centralizing authentication and role-based access control (RBAC) for all of the clusters, giving global admins the ability to control cluster access from one location.

SUSE Rancher Prime enables detailed monitoring and alerting for clusters and their resources, ships logs to external providers, and integrates directly with Helm via the Application Catalog. To automatically deploy and upgrade workloads you can either plug-in an existing CI/CD systems or use SUSE Rancher Prime: Continous Delivery.

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About Rancher

Covers Kubernetes concepts, what is SUSE Rancher Prime, difference between Rancher and Rancher Prime, Rancher Architecture, and more.

Installation and Upgrades

Provides steps, guides to get you up and running with SUSE Rancher Prime.

Rancher Administration

Covers topics related to administering SUSE Rancher Prime. You can learn about authentication configuration, project and user management, migrations, backup and more.

Cluster Deployment

Covers topics to create and import clusters.

Cluster Administration

Provides guides and procedures to help you access and scale clusters, setup and configure networking, backup and restore clusters, and more.

Security

Covers information and guidance on securing your Kubernetes clusters in SUSE Rancher Prime.

Integrations

Provides information about various integrations with SUSE Rancher Prime, such as SUSE Virtualization, SUSE Storage, SUSE Security, etc.

Observability

Covers features that help you monitor your Kubernetes clusters, configure logging, manage alerts, and more.

API

Provides information on how to access SUSE Rancher Prime resources via API.

Troubleshooting

Contains information to help you troubleshoot issues when using Rancher.

FAQ

Covers frequently asked questions and their answers related to various areas of SUSE Rancher Prime.

Cluster Autoscaler lock

Overview of the Cluster Autoscaler Prime-only feature available in Rancher v2.13.1 and higher.

Alibaba Hosted Clusters lock

Steps to set up and configure Rancher to deploy Alibaba hosted clusters (ACK).

IPv4/IPv6 Dual-Stack lock

Additional limitations regarding IPv6 and dual-stack support.

Migrating to SUSE Rancher Prime lock

Covers migrating from Community Rancher Manager to SUSE Rancher Prime and includes a list of Frequently Asked Questions about the migration process.

Operating at Scale lock

Learn about how you can scale your SUSE Rancher Prime cluster to have as many as 300 pods per node.

Replacing the Restricted Admin Role lock

Guides you through how create a custom role to replace the deprecated restricted admin role.

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