Secure, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Everywhere
Scale containers with confidence with Rancher. Get more value with Rancher Prime and securely manage your Kubernetes clusters anywhere.
Comprehensive Value Across Entire Subscription
Ensure your workloads with the Rancher Prime subscription. Extract more value from Rancher with enterprise support. Strengthen your container strategy with exclusive access to professional services and our rich knowledge base.
Security, Policy Management & Compliance
Implement a security-first container strategy with Rancher Prime. Deploy Rancher from our trusted private registry. Minimize misconfigurations across your clusters with access to pre-written Kubewarden policies.
Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Everywhere
Maintain your cluster’s operational reliability everywhere with Rancher Prime. Run Rancher across any certified Kubernetes distribution and ensure Day 2 cluster operations with certified support and value-adding services available with Rancher Prime.
Clone of Extensible Platform with Shared Tools & Services
Enrich your organization’s Kubernetes through Rancher’s catalog of integrations and new UI extensions framework. Deploy tools from the Rancher app catalog or implement custom, peer-developed or built-in Rancher certified & supported extensions.
Our Rancher Editions
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Rancher
The community’s favorite Kubernetes management platform — free forever
- 100% Open Source
- Full Rancher Platform Experience
- Community Support
Rancher
Prime
Get the same Rancher platform experience with added value from Rancher Prime
- 100% Open Source
- Full Rancher Platform Experience
- Enterprise Support
- Access to Professional Services including Go-Live
- Deploy from trusted private container registry
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Prime Hosted
The premium white-glove service for managing Rancher Prime
- 100% Open Source
- Full Rancher Platform Experience
- Enterprise Support with expert-managed Rancher Prime control plane
- Deploy from trusted private container registry
- Expert-managed Rancher Prime control plane
Features & Capabilities
Get more value from your Kubernetes deployments with Rancher Prime. Fully supported and backed by a team of world-class experts, start scaling your clusters with confidence.
Secure Container Management
Build resilience across production container supply chain from Day One by deploying Rancher from our trusted private registry available only through Rancher Prime.
Day Two Kubernetes Operations
Centralized console designed for simple cluster operations. With access to our onboarding services, operators can quickly learn how to manage, upgrade, back up, define policies and recover clusters.
Unify your hybrid and multi-cloud workloads
Implement best practices from our team of experts and minimize configuration drift with Rancher Prime’s full lifecycle management capabilities across any workloads including Amazon EKS, Microsoft AKS and Google GKE.
World class support and service from our team of experts
Ensure your mission-critical workloads with Rancher Prime Support. Troubleshoot roadblocks from implementation to expansion with our Kubernetes experts and guarantee continuity across your business.
Features
What's New in the Latest Release
User Interface (UI) Extensions Framework
Build a tailored Rancher platform custom to your environment with the new UI Extensions Framework. Make changes and create enhancements to your UI functionality independent of Rancher releases.
Built-In Rancher Extensions Available Now
In Rancher 2.7.2, users have access to Rancher’s built-in UI extensions, including Kubewarden, Harvester and Elemental. Users can immediately deploy these free extensions across their Rancher clusters.
Expanding our Rancher Prime coverage
Rancher Prime subscription now provides certified technical support for built-in Rancher UI extensions, project Elemental and CNCF project Kubewarden. In addition, Rancher Prime customers also have access to pre-written plug-and-play Kubewarden policies to deploy across their clusters.
New Knowledgebase & SUSE Collective
Rancher Prime customers can solve business challenges efficiently with SUSE Collective, a rich exclusive knowledgebase that provides access to peers and business value-adding materials to help our customers build resilience across their Kubernetes environment.
Current Features
Secure Container Management
Build resilience across production container supply chain from Day One by deploying Rancher from our trusted private registry available only through Rancher Prime.
Day Two Kubernetes Operations
Centralized console designed for simple cluster operations. With access to our onboarding services, operators can quickly learn how to manage, upgrade, back up, define policies and recover clusters.
Unify your hybrid and multi-cloud workloads
Implement best practices from our team of experts and minimize configuration drift with Rancher Prime’s full lifecycle management capabilities across any workloads including Amazon EKS, Microsoft AKS and Google GKE.
World class support and service from our team of experts
Ensure your mission-critical workloads with Rancher Prime Support. Troubleshoot roadblocks from implementation to expansion with our Kubernetes experts and guarantee continuity across your business.
Join our Community
Connect with your peers and learn more about Kubernetes. Rancher is 100% open source backed by our enormous community of users.
Connect with fellow users and the Rancher team. Hang out with us, ask questions or troubleshoot problems with your peers.
Check out Rancher on GitHub. Submit a feature request or give us feedback via our repo.
Learn the latest tips from our engineers and keep up to date with all things Rancher.
We host free meetups and master classes regularly. Check out our event calendar.
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