2 years ago

Category: Business, Microsoft, Kubernetes, Infrastructure

The intention behind the creation of SUSE Rancher 2.6 was largely to help make it easier for DevOps teams to deploy and manage Kubernetes environments across different cloud environments. While offering “full lifecycle management support for clusters hosted across three major cloud providers” smacks of marketing speak, what SUSE otherwise means is that Rancher is now expanding beyond its Kubernetes pioneer roots as a container orchestrator geared particularly for edge applications. Rancher 2.6 is thus intended to replace many of the various tools required to get Kubernetes clusters up and running across Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Amazon Web Services‘ Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

The release of Rancher 2.6 follows SUSE’s purchase of Rancher last year, as both companies have said they seek to combine the best of SUSE Linux and Rancher Kubernetes orchestration tools and platforms.

Plus they can now import and manage existing clusters across the providers into SUSE Rancher or deploy new ones from SUSE Rancher.