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It is impossible to remain indifferent towards Rancher.
Either one loves and accepts him in his entirety, or hates him precisely for what it is .... and it is open, good, versatile, with huge possibilities and potential to use :)
Its main advantages in my opinion are openness, massive community support, freedom to change and adapt to the required needs.
In addition, its well-thought-out design and well-directed development fits the needs of the market and the changing IT environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The environment is developing intensively all the time and releasing new functionality, so all possible problems and shortcomings are a natural consequence of such development, especially since it is a platform for managing entire ecosystems in all infrastructure varieties. Fortunately, everything is addressable with the support of the community and SUSE company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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It is a great tool where you can check logs status and more in GUI interface.
(i)User-friendly interface or ease of use.
(ii)Comprehensive management capabilities.
(iii)Compatibility with various container orchestration platforms.
(iv) Can get many extentions.
(v)Extensive documentation and customer and community support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Here if the container didn't start we cannot logged into container or check the exact issue, for that we need to check it from cli of kubernetes.
(i)Occasional complexity in setting up and configuring the cluster.
(ii)Performance issues in large-scale deployments.
(iii)Limited customization options for specific use cases.
(iv)Dependency on Kubernetes for some features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part about rancher is when you are working in a team it's easy to manage the resources as it provides the good GUI. Also it's open source so we have the customization feature over there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes deployments of new setup takes much time than expected also while creating or editing the configrations it refresh the site which help to the preview stage also you can face some bugs which might be fixed in upcoming version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Rancher is indeed a powerful tool for managing clusters efficiently. Its intuitive interface simplifies complex tasks, offering seamless control over Kubernetes clusters. With Rancher, you can easily deploy, scale, and monitor your applications, ensuring optimal performance and resource utilization. Overall, leveraging Rancher for cluster management can significantly enhance your workflow and streamline operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
While Rancher offers robust cluster management capabilities, it has faced criticism for occasional complexities in setup and configuration, which can be daunting for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I was stunned to use rancher in my workplace through which we can implement security container strategy very easily in just click of a button. Very easy to use and Comfortable UI whivh is very helpful for me in my beginning stage of this application. Best Feature i loved is the live logs and REST APIs which we can consume to use rancher with integration of our services.Its Multilingual Support was very helpful in our Workplace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Rancher can increase the time limit for the logging out of the app it is a bit annoying,they can also introduce k8s solutions which is missing in the rancher. Sometime i face reload issue reloads take a lot of time to load the application and also Multi- tenancy Feature is a must which must be improved a bit. Backing Up can be confusing on the Rancher sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rancher is the best ever platform which helps to manage the teams their Kubernetes. The most important thing I like in Rancher is centralized authentication and do the deployments on the clouds independently. Also it allows to optimize the reliable infrastructure that has helped a lot to our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is some steep curve here in Rancher which doesn't support much to nre comers. Also Rancher is best wherever I found to be perfect. Only support that it needs is to elevate use of ease for new joiners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rancher makes handling containers simple by integrating with several platforms. Rancher Desktop made it straightforward to switch from Docker Desktop to a containerd-based one. It also improves our understanding of our container configuration by masking the more technical portions of Kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I haven't discovered any major issues yet, however it does log me out by itself after a while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
My first approach to Rancher were when I have almost 5 years of expertise in building and maintaining Kubernetes-based platforms at large enterprise scale (multiple cluster, tens of projects, 300 Namespaces, 500 applications developers and administrators, thousands of Business users and clients etc.)
What I noticed the most is how complete the vision of this product is. We also considered two other main market competitors of Rancher. From the great three, only Rancher has very soft dependencies with other SUSE products. You can choose to use them (for example: Longhorn, NeuVector, KubeWarden, Harvester) but you are not forced to do so to gain full functionality of Rancher.
Rancher is like Kubernetes on steroids: easy to install and learn, hard to master but have very high ROI. Some functionalities takes months to master, but will return that time when there is high Frequency of use of them in Day-2 operations (i.e. good configuration of some infrastructure providers takes months and requires implementing changes at infrastructure layer, but when finished gives possibility to create dozens of downstream clusters in minutes).
I love it's simple subscription model, as much as I cherish that it is fully open source. If you don't know what I mean then try to "install to learn" approach with two main Rancher's market competitors... it's not possible, the closest you get is "try and buy", yuck!
Rancher provides a very well documented REST API, so it can be easily integrate your services with it i.e. We have implemented self-service of Namespace lifecycle (create/quota mgmt/delete) that integrates Rancher's authentication and authorization model wth our corporate propetriary IAM solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Rancher has well-known roadmap with many functionalities planned, but some of them are neverending stories (i.e. We are waiting for "Projects 2.0" feature with implementation of hierarchical namespaces for over 1,5 year and it still will be available "soon").
Some internal modules are more mature than other. That is well seen on Rancher's drivers for different infrastructure and cloud providers.
Rancher is easy to implement within public cloud, but it's implementation in secure corporate air-gapped on-premise environment is uneven (some things are easy and well documented, some will bring one a lot of new grey hairs).
The multiple speeds of development of different Rancher's functionalities can lead to many breaking changes between releases, so administrators have a lot of work with every upgrade. Rancher is stable corporate-grade sofware, but every company that want to implement it at scale must have a very professional and well educated team of administrators and/or devopses.
That last but not least, the Customer Support is... the same as everywhere else in the world. Don't hesitate to open support tickets (that's the main reason you bought the subscriptions, right?), but also don't assume that they will resolve all of your problems in no time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Good UI with detailed attention to every kubernetes manifest feature in the UI, ability to import multiple types of cluster be it k3s, AKS , EKS etc. central management of cluster with inbuilt fleet for GitOps and even integration of Elemental OS, Longhorn, partner helm chart and Harvestor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
fleet that comes inbuilt into it is not as mature as ArgoCD Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
1. rancher makes it easy to set up kubernetes clusters in a variety of settings.
2. it makes centralized access control and authentication easier.
3. the integration of helm and app catalog makes it easy to deploy and manage apps.
4. this streamlines devops processes, making sure they are all the same and cutting down on deployment mistakes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
rancher can be a very useful tool, but it has a steep learning curve for beginners. my understanding of how to use all of its features correctly took some time to develop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We often used Docker earlier but when it was no more open source we want some good reliable alternative, we found rancher the best fit, we can have customizable installation process, it really helped us to run the same docker command, which I loved the most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I feel when rancher desktop run for couple of hour it really took really good amount of ram which cause some slowness. So we can optimize the memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.