Orchestrating your containerised micro-services with ease
June 25, 2024

Orchestrating your containerised micro-services with ease

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Rancher

Modules Used

  • Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE)

Overall Satisfaction with SUSE Rancher

We use SUSE Rancher within our organisation to orchestrate Docker containers across a number of micro services. SUSE Rancher is great for managing connectivity between different components, and connecting multiple nodes together running these services. We have been using SUSE Rancher since v1 to run 100s of containers and workloads, from dev, test to production environments.

Pros

  • Orchestration
  • Security
  • Easy to manage

Cons

  • Setup process of SUSE Rancher v2 much more complex than v1
  • Less suited to small organisations
  • Steep learning curve
  • Allows for fast development process
  • Allows for multiple environments
  • Quickly add additional resources
  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Proxmox VE, Docker and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
We started using SUSE Rancher in the early days and spent a large amount of time getting to know and love it. This was before the days of some of the likes of Amazon Web Services who may now provide a cheaper but less feature-rich alternative to SUSE Rancher, however we have yet to explore this.

Do you think SUSE Rancher delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SUSE Rancher's feature set?

Yes

Did SUSE Rancher live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of SUSE Rancher go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SUSE Rancher again?

Yes

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Proxmox VE, Ubiquiti Wireless WAN, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM
SUSE Rancher is great for quickly deploying containerised workloads, version 2 of SUSE Rancher branched deeper into the Kubernetes ecosystem which has made the tool more powerful, with the slight drawback of increased learning curve for those less familiar with K8s. SUSE Rancher comes into its own when running a number of workloads and nodes and may be less suited to running more monolithic workloads.

SUSE Rancher Feature Ratings

Container Management
7.0
Security and Isolation
8
Container Orchestration
8
Cluster Management
6
Storage Management
5
Resource Allocation and Optimization
7
Discovery Tools
6
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks
8
Self-Healing and Recovery
8
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
7

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