How to Manage Enterprise-wide Containerization
Containerization provides a consistent way to package application components and their dependencies into a single object that can run in any environment. Containers provide the flexibility needed for scaling applications and building workflows in hybrid on-premise and cloud environments. But with numerous containers deployed throughout your organization, you may start to feel that you have too much of a good thing. That’s when an Enterprise Container Management (ECM) tool becomes an essential part of your IT strategy.
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DISA Validates Rancher Government Solutions’ Security Technical Implementation Guide for the Rancher Multi-cluster Manager 2.6 for Kubernetes
In a major validation of Rancher Government Solutions https://rancher.com/government (RGS) security posture, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has announced that it has published and validated the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for the Rancher Multi-cluster Manager version 2.6 (MCM) for Kubernetes.
Read MoreLeveraging RKE2 with TLS Passthrough
Leveraging RKE2 with TLS Passthrough What did I do? As a new engineer at Rancher Federal (Suse Rancher Government Solutions) I wanted to setup Keycloak with TLS Passthrough on my shinny new RKE2 cluster. For the uninitiated TLS Passthrough is a way for the ingress or proxy to all TLS to passthrough. Meaning the pod a way for the ingress or proxy to all TLS to passthrough. Meaning the pod
Read MoreSUSE Rancher Government Solutions (RGS) Appoints Sima Shahin As New Regional Vice President of System Integrators
SUSE Rancher Government Solutions (RGS) Appoints Sima Shahin As New Regional Vice President of System Integrators SUSE RGS continues to accelerate its business offerings with the launch of its customer advisory board, designed to support operational & market development — WASHINGTON, D.C. – October 5, 2021 – SUSE Rancher Government Solutions (RGS®), a leader in
Read MoreStop Breaches and Secure Your Applications in the Cloud
SUSE One Partner, Crowdstrike, has an offering live in the SUSE Rancher Apps and Marketplace and we’ve invited Crowdstrike to author a guest blog so you can learn more about their breach prevention solution. ~Bret Guest Blog Author: Gabriel Alford, Senior Solution Architect, Crowdstrike How do you ensure your containers and microservices remain secure and
Read MoreEnhancing your Rancher monitoring experience with Grafana Loki
Monitoring and gathering metrics on your systems is an essential part of the lifecycle of any machine, application, or cluster. It provides us with the insight needed to be more proactive and less reactive to what our systems are doing. Gathering and viewing numerical data, like CPU load or memory usage, is something that is
Read MoreHow to monitor Kubernetes costs for on-premise clusters
To the uninitiated, Kubernetes does a fairly simple thing: it provides the scaffolding to effortlessly run applications with very complex architectures. Rancher has built on top of this scaffolding, making it easy not only to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters but also applications. With Kubernetes, a lot of established paradigms of software development are evolving
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Defense in Depth with RKE2 and Sysdig
With the widespread adoption of Kubernetes throughout the DevOps space it is important to prioritize security using principles like defense in depth to safeguard your technology stack. Kubernetes was created for developers to ease the friction of code deployment. Traditionally, additional security measures would mean additional time spent taking manual steps to enable and validate
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SUSE Rancher Government Solutions (RGS) launches with Industry veteran Lynne Chamberlain in Command
SUSE Rancher Government Solutions (RGS) Launches With Industry Veteran Lynne Chamberlain In Command As President of Regulated Markets & Government, Chamberlain Will Focus on Expanding Linux, Kubernetes & Edge Adoption to Accelerate the Pace of Innovation in the U.S. Government — WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 21, 2021 – SUSE Rancher Government Solutions (RGS®), a leader
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Hypergiant and SUSE RGS, taking Kubernetes to the final frontier
“We’re on course to put a Kubernetes cluster in space in 2021.” Bren Briggs, Director of DevOps and Cybersecurity, Hypergiant Industries. Hypergiant Industries focuses on solving humanity’s most challenging problems by delivering best-in-class artificial intelligence solutions and products in a host of sectors, including space science and exploration. Hypergiant’s SUSE RGS (Rancher Government Solutions)-supported SatelliteONE
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Using the new Rancher Backup Operator to protect your cluster
Introduction It goes without saying that backing up Kubernetes Components is an essential part of any Kubernetes Administrator, especially in production enviroments. While it has always been possible to write a home-grown solution, we here at Rancher want to make it as easy as possible to protect your Rancher-based clusters. Not only does backing up
Read MoreInstalling RKE Government in Air-gap Environments
Introduction There are many deployment environments where internet access is just not possible. RKE Government was designed from the ground up with cases like this in mind. Out of the box, RKE Government supports several ways of injecting its dependencies for easy installations and upgrades in air-gapped networks. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through a
Read MoreSUSE and Rancher – Enabling our Customers to Innovate Everywhere
In July, we announced SUSE's intent to acquire Rancher Federal, and now that the acquisition is final, today we embark on a new journey with SUSE. We couldn't be more excited about our future and what this means for our customers around the world. Just as Rancher made computing everywhere a possibility for our customers
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Mitigate the Docker Dilemma with a Proxy Cache
Mitigate the Docker Dilema with a Proxy Cache The Docker Dilemma For the better part of a decade, we developers and operators have relied on the Docker Hub and their image repository for our needs. This has been great for the growth of the technology, but this growth has necessitated a change to how Docker
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Implementing GitOps on Kubernetes Using AWS, K3s, Rancher, Vault, and ArgoCD
As Kubernetes continues to establish itself as the industry standard for container orchestration, finding effective ways to use a declarative model for your applications and tools is critical to success. In this write-up, I’m going to walk through setting up a K3s Kubernetes cluster in AWS, then implement secure GitOps using ArgoCD and Vault. Check
Read MoreIntroducing RKE Government: Security-Driven Kubernetes Engine
Rancher Federal is proud to announce RKE Government, a FIPS-140-2 secure distribution of Kubernetes for cloud-native government enterprises.
Read MoreWhy SUSE Acquired Rancher Federal
In order to meet the challenge of the ever-evolving mission landscape, our US Federal customers demand innovative solutions that can accelerate, not degrade, their mission velocity. Whether it’s civilian agencies looking to adopt cloud-native strategies, IC-partners looking to extend AI/ML pipelines to the tactical-battlefield or the USAF changing the conversation on how we all can
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Rancher Federal to be Acquired by SUSE
I’m thrilled to announce that Rancher Federal and Rancher have signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by SUSE. Rancher is the most popular Kubernetes Management platform in the world and has quickly become the choice of US government organizations building secure, scalable solutions on Kubernetes. SUSE is the largest independent open source software
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