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Rancher Labs Launches Rancher 2.0, the First Container Management Platform to Work with Any Kubernetes ClusterRancher Labs, a provider of container management software, today announced the availability of the technical preview of Rancher 2.0. This latest release makes it possible to manage all Kubernetes clusters under a single Rancher instance. Users can stand up and manage new Kubernetes clusters using the Rancher Kubernetes distribution or import existing Kubernetes clusters, including hosted container services such as Google (News - Alert) Container Engine. "Rancher is a key piece of our platform strategy, enabling us to take full advantage of the benefits of both Docker and Kubernetes," said Brad Linder, Cloud Native and Big Data Evangelist at SlingTV. "With Rancher 2.0, we are thrilled that the full Rancher experience will now extend to Kubernetes, allowing us to easily leverage all innovations, as well as the Kubernetes ecosystem, without the overhead of a full Platform Engineering organization." Moving from an architecture built on Docker to Kubernetes Rancher 1.0 is currently powering more than ten thousand Docker clusters, over a thousand of which are running Kubernetes. Beginning with Rancher 2.0, every cluster will now be based on Kubernetes. This makes it even easier for users to take advantage of the power of Kubernetes, as well as its rapidly growing ecosystem. By providing a simple and intuitive user experience built on Kubernetes, Rancher 2.0 will accelerate adoption of Kubernetes within the enterprise. "The environment in which enterprises have to operate their applications gets more complex by the day," said Holger Muller, VP and principal analyst for Constellation Research. "The complexity is furthered by their desire to build with new technologies - most prominently microservices and containers - and move to the public cloud. A solution making it easier for enterprises to manage the process as well as accelerate the adoption of these tools, is highly welcome and will catch the attention of DevOps teams and CxOs trying to address these challenges." New features in Rancher 2.0 include:
"With Canonical's experience deploying Kubernetes on Ubuntu (News - Alert) in the enterprise, we see first-hand the tremendous opportunity for Rancher 2.0 to solve container management at scale," says Dustin Kirkland, VP of Product Development at Canonical. "We're delighted to partner with Rancher Labs in combining Rancher, Kubernetes, and Ubuntu into an open application development platform for the agile, cloud native developer." For additional information on Rancher 2.0, and to learn more about Rancher Labs and the company's suite of open source products, please visit www.rancher.com. Supporting Resources About Rancher Labs Rancher Labs builds innovative, open source software for enterprises leveraging containers to accelerate software development and improve IT operations. The flagship Rancher container management platform allows users to easily manage all aspects of running containers in production, on any infrastructure. RancherOS is a simplified Linux distribution built from containers for running containers. For additional information, please visit www.rancher.com. Partner Quotes
"We are thrilled to work with Rancher on their 2.0 release, which
greatly simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes. With
Anchore's integration with Kubernetes, provided by Rancher, users can
confidently deploy cloud native workloads that are certified for
security and operational practices with policies defined by their users."
"Containers should be portable across clouds and stacks. By partnering
with Rancher, we can help customers operating in heterogeneous
environments gain cross-platform container management, orchestration and
security."
"Dell (News - Alert) Technologies and Rancher Labs share a common vision of innovation
and driving adoption of container technologies with enterprise
customers. Through tools like REX-Ray (developed by {code}, Dell
Technologies' Open Source (News - Alert) organization) designed to provide persistent
storage across container technology, Dell Technologies is addressing
emerging customer challenges by providing solutions that maximize
datacenter efficiencies. Rancher Labs and Dell Technologies are also
aligned around our embrace of Kubernetes and its robust ecosystem.
Rancher's 2.0 release provides a compelling aggregation point for
multiple Kubernetes deployments."
"We see increasing demand for time series platforms driven by the
movement to containerization and virtualization. We are excited to
partner with Rancher in addressing our joint customer needs for
monitoring, visibility and control as they build their applications on
Kubernetes."
"Rancher 2.0 means that customers have a choice in deploying and
managing containers. At JFrog, we know our customers want us to stay on
the cutting edge of containerization and DevOps technology, and we see
that our integration and innovation with Rancher will continue to grow."
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