SUSE Rancher Prime
Everything organizations need to to securely deploy, run, and manage their containerized workloads anywhere. Streamlining cluster deployment, SUSE Rancher Prime offers centralized authentication, access control and observability across the entire infrastructure.
Available on the cloud
Enterprise Reassurance for Years
Align your infrastructure with the latest Kubernetes advancements through consistent four-month release cycles, backed by up to 5 years support for LTS Core, ensuring long-term stability and performance.
Trusted delivery
Built in security critical to enterprises including on-demand Secure Level Software Artifacts (SLSA) certification, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) available, and an OCI Prime Registry containing signed and trusted artifacts.
Curated Application Delivery
A trusted, enterprise-grade distribution platform, called Application Collection, provides minimal, hardened images of key cloud-native applications complete with signatures and SBOMs.
Extensible platform with rich ecosystem
Boost SUSE Rancher Prime with Long Term Support, Container Security, Prime Priority, Application Collection, and much more. Our AI Assistant (EA) offers intelligent support, streamlining operations and enhancing decision-making.
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- Up to 5 years of LTS Core support
- Consistent release cycles
- Platform extensibility
- Curated App Collection
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Fully-managed service to save more time
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- Enterprise Support with expert-managed SUSE Rancher Prime control plane
- Deploy from trusted private container registry
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Detailed Comparison
| Full Featured Multi Cluster Management |
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SUSE Rancher Prime |
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| Full features of Rancher ECM platform | |||
| Community training | |||
| 100% open-sourced code base & zero lock-in | |||
| 4 month release cycle, aligning to upstream Kubernetes | |||
| Up to 2 years enterprise lifecycle with proactive support | |||
| Up to 5 years enterprise lifecycle with proactive support for K3s and RKE2 | |||
| Trusted Delivery w/ 24x7x365 Product Support & Professional Services | |||
| Delivery from a Trusted Rancher Hosted Container Registry | |||
| SLA coverage across Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher & certified integrations | |||
| Service continuity, troubleshooting & root cause analysis | |||
| Professional services team | |||
| Assigned CSM to aid with onboarding & deployment* | |||
| Target response time as little as SEV-1 cases* | |||
| Dedicated Slack channel with support team* | |||
| Security, Policy Management & Compliance | |||
| Built-in Rules for Policy Management with Kubewarden | |||
| SLSA certification and sharable SBOM | |||
| Application Collection for curated application delivery of common apps with minimal, hardened images with signatures and SBOMs | |||
| OCI Prime Registry containing signed and trusted artifacts for Rancher Prime | |||
| UI Extensions | |||
| Integration options with SUSE’s entire portfolio of cloud-native technologies | |||
| Easy integration with 3rd-party open source technologies | |||
| Neuvector UI Integration and a new security dashboard | |||
| General availability of Cluster API and new Cluster Classes | |||
| Rancher Extensibility & Ecosystem | |||
| Rancher Platform UI Extensions Framework | |||
| Certified & Supported Rancher UI Extensions | |||
| Certified & Supported Rancher Projects (Elemental, Kubewarden)* | |||
| Rancher Knowledgebase: Onboarding, Training & Enablement | |||
| Basic Documentation & Training | |||
| On-Demand White Glove Getting-Started Guide | |||
| Operating at Scale Documentation & Reference Architectures | |||
| Day 2 Support & Support Posture Assessment | |||
| AI Assistant | |||
| SUSE Collective & Collaboration | |||
| Invitation to Customer Advisory Boards | |||
| Drive Rancher Product Roadmap | |||
| Direct access to our teams to influence product direction | |||
| Rancher Prime AI Assistant | |||
| Early access to new features | |||
| Rancher for the Edge | |||
| OS Management with Elemental | |||
| x86 Architecture | |||
| Accelerated Time to Value | |||
| Rancher Enterprise - a single subscription to the entire Rancher Prime portfolio | |||
| Start with day 2 operations | |||
| Lowered Total Cost of Ownership | |||
| Scale on Demand | |||
SUSE Rancher Prime Highlights
Open, Secure, Interoperable Enterprise Container Management anywhere
Simple, Consistent Multi-Cluster Management
SUSE Rancher Prime support for Any Certified Kubernetes Distribution: Whether it's public cloud offerings like EKS, AKS, and GKE, or on-premises deployments with Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 (RKE2) and K3s, SUSE Rancher Prime provides support for any CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution. SUSE Rancher Prime streamlines cluster operations, offering provisioning, version management, monitoring, and centralized audit capabilities. With SUSE Rancher Prime you can automate processes and enforce consistent security policies across all clusters, regardless of their location.
Curated Application Delivery
The SUSE Rancher Prime Application Collection is a trusted, enterprise-grade distribution platform providing minimal, hardened images with signatures and SBOMs. Application Collection is SLSA Level 3 compliance, provides an SBOM and performs daily patches and rebuilds with all zero or near-0 CVEs within hours since official provider updates. The Application Collection provides all the necessary features that give platform engineers confidence to provide internal development teams the use of publicly available open source cloud-native applications.
Simplified Cloud Native Infrastructure
Ensure business continuity and optimize infrastructure workflows with the SUSE Rancher Prime platform. Unify virtualized workloads with containers, navigate storage, deploy CI/CD workflows and OS management from a single platform.
Fortified Security and Observability
Strengthen your container security with SUSE Rancher Prime. Get full lifecycle security capabilities, advanced policy management and AIOps across insights and observability metrics from the platform.
Streamlined Application Development
Boost developer productivity and simplify application workflows with SUSE Rancher Prime. Enable local development and testing while enhancing collaboration between operators and developers.
Kubernetes Distributions
Run SUSE Rancher Prime on our certified and supported Kubernetes distributions built by the Rancher by SUSE team.
Features
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Simple, Consistent Multi-Cluster Management
SUSE Rancher Prime support for Any Certified Kubernetes Distribution: Whether it's public cloud offerings like EKS, AKS, and GKE, or on-premises deployments with Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 (RKE2) and K3s, SUSE Rancher Prime provides support for any CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution. SUSE Rancher Prime streamlines cluster operations, offering provisioning, version management, monitoring, and centralized audit capabilities. With SUSE Rancher Prime you can automate processes and enforce consistent security policies across all clusters, regardless of their location.
Curated Application Delivery
The SUSE Rancher Prime Application Collection is a trusted, enterprise-grade distribution platform providing minimal, hardened images with signatures and SBOMs. Application Collection is SLSA Level 3 compliance, provides an SBOM and performs daily patches and rebuilds with all zero or near-0 CVEs within hours since official provider updates. The Application Collection provides all the necessary features that give platform engineers confidence to provide internal development teams the use of publicly available open source cloud-native applications.
Simplified Cloud Native Infrastructure
Ensure business continuity and optimize infrastructure workflows with the SUSE Rancher Prime platform. Unify virtualized workloads with containers, navigate storage, deploy CI/CD workflows and OS management from a single platform.
Fortified Security and Observability
Strengthen your container security with SUSE Rancher Prime. Get full lifecycle security capabilities, advanced policy management and AIOps across insights and observability metrics from the platform.
Streamlined Application Development
Boost developer productivity and simplify application workflows with SUSE Rancher Prime. Enable local development and testing while enhancing collaboration between operators and developers.
Kubernetes Distributions
Run SUSE Rancher Prime on our certified and supported Kubernetes distributions built by the Rancher by SUSE team.
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