Rancher addresses the needs of DevOps teams deploying applications with Kubernetes and IT staff delivering enterprise-critical services on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Rancher unifies these clusters to ensure consistent operations, workload management, and enterprise-grade security.

K3s is an official CNCF sandbox project that delivers a lightweight yet powerful certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads across resource-restrained, remote locations or on IoT devices. When used with Rancher, K3s is simple to install, lightweight, yet high availability Kubernetes distribution that can be easily managed within the Rancher orchestration platform.

Longhorn is an official CNCF project that delivers a powerful cloud-native distributed storage platform for Kubernetes that can run anywhere. When combined with Rancher, Longhorn makes the deployment of highly available persistent block storage in your Kubernetes environment easy, fast, and reliable.