Top 10 Rancher Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Rancher Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

#1

Portainer
By Portainer
(240)4.9 out of 5
Portainer is a universal container management platform to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and secure containerized applications across cloud, data center, edge, and Industrial IoT use cases. Portainer is trusted by customers across various industries, including financial services, information technology, manufacturing, energy, automotive, and healthcare, to simplify container adoption securely and with exceptional speed. Portainer offers the perfect blend of infrastructure versatility, self-service freedom, and compliance guardrails to deliver containerized applications in a way that suits every part of the organization. Portainer provides extensive support for container orchestrators across every deployment scenario and helps bridge the knowledge gap within every organization.
Categories in common with Rancher:
• Container Management
• IoT Edge Platforms
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Reviewers say compared to Rancher, Portainer is:
Easier to set up
Better at support
Easier to do business with
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#2

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
By Amazon Web Services (AWS)
(331)4.4 out of 5
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a container management service that supports Docker containers and allows users to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
Categories in common with Rancher:
• Container Management
Reviewers say compared to Rancher, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is:
Better at meeting requirements
Better at support
Easier to do business with
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#3

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)
By Mirantis
(281)4.4 out of 5
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise) is the world's leading software container platform to build, ship, and run any app anywhere.
Categories in common with Rancher:
• Container Management
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Reviewers say compared to Rancher, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise) is:
Better at meeting requirements
Easier to do business with
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#4

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
By Google
(261)4.5 out of 5
Google Kubernetes Engine is a managed, production-ready environment for deploying containerized applications at scale.
Categories in common with Rancher:
• Container Management
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Reviewers say compared to Rancher, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is:
Slower to reach roi
Better at meeting requirements
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#5

Red Hat OpenShift
By Red Hat
(238)4.5 out of 5
Red Hat OpenShift is a platform for creating and deploying any application, quickly and easily, on virtually any infrastructure.
Categories in common with Rancher:
• Container Management
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Reviewers say compared to Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift is:
Slower to reach roi
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
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#6

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
By Microsoft
(193)4.4 out of 5
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a solution that optimizes the configuration of popular open-source tools and technologies specifically for Azure, it provides an open solution that offers portability for both users containers and users application configuration.
Categories in common with Rancher:
• Container Management
Reviewers say compared to Rancher, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is:
Easier to set up
Easier to do business with
Better at meeting requirements
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#7

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
By Amazon Web Services (AWS)
(148)4.6 out of 5
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes clusters. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Categories in common with Rancher:
• Container Management
Reviewers say compared to Rancher, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is:
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
More expensive
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#8

Kubernetes
By The Linux Foundation
(139)4.6 out of 5
Kubernetes is a Linux container management tool.
Categories in common with Rancher:
• Container Management
Reviewers say compared to Rancher, Kubernetes is:
Better at meeting requirements
Better at support
Easier to do business with
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#9

AWS Fargate
By Amazon Web Services (AWS)
(121)4.5 out of 5
AWS Fargate is a technology for Amazon ECS and EKS that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. AWS Fargate removes the need for you to interact with or think about servers or clusters.
Categories in common with Rancher:
• Container Management
Reviewers say compared to Rancher, AWS Fargate is:
Better at meeting requirements
More expensive
Easier to do business with
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#10

Cloud Foundry
By Cloud Foundry
(19)4.0 out of 5
Cloud Foundry: Industry's Open Platform As A Service. Deploy and scale applications in seconds, without locking yourself into a single cloud.
Categories in common with Rancher:
• Container Management
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