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This week we shipped Rancher v0.63. With this latest release, we are dramatically expanding the capabilities of Rancher, by including a complete distribution of Kubernetes as a container orchestration framework, within Rancher. Beginning with this release, when you create an environment, you’ll be able to launch a Kubernetes environment with a single click and you within 5-10 minutes have access to fully deployed Kubernetes cluster. The work we’ve done, however, goes beyond simply launching a Kubernetes cluster on top of the existing Rancher platform. Instead, we’ve incorporated Kubernetes as a key element within Rancher, integrating all of our core Rancher capabilities with Kubernetes. Specifically, Rancher’s support of Kubernetes includes all of the following features:
Today’s announcement is the first step in expanding Rancher’s capabilities to support multiple container orchestration frameworks. Today’s developers have the choice of a variety of container orchestration and scheduling frameworks as they develop containerized applications.
Large organizations today give developers a lot of freedom in choosing the best container orchestration framework for their projects. That’s why we designed Rancher from the ground up to support multiple frameworks.
Beyond an easy-to-use and consistent UI, Rancher provides an application catalog and a rich set of infrastructure and application services. We’ve added all of these capabilities to our Kubernetes environemnts. The Rancher Catalog enables users and application developers to create a repository of Docker Compose and Kubernetes templates. Rancher users can deploy a complex multi-node enterprise application with one click of a button. Application upgrades can be fully automated as new versions of the application templates are relased. Rancher Infrastructure Services provide consistent storage and networking implementation across any public cloud, private cloud, virtualization cluster, or bare-metal servers. By adding this support to Kubernetes, we’re making it possible to run multi-node, multi-cloud, clusters, and even deploy stateful applications. We’ve also added support for Rancher’s Application Services to Kubernetes. These services provides cloud-independent load balancer, DNS, and meta-data services. The scope of Rancher Application Services will continue to grow as the container ecosystem grows.
Like Kubernetes, Rancher is an open source platform, and setting up a Rancher environment is as easy as launching a Docker container. You can find more details on how to deploy your own Rancher deployment on our Github site. If you’d like to learn more about Rancher, please schedule a demo, or get started deploying the software. You can also register now for our next online meetup, which is happening later this month, to get a deep dive on our new support for Kubernetes.