Rancher Labs Reviews

We use the solution for cluster availability, deployment, monitoring, administration, etc.

The solution is stable.

To implement deployments, you can initially start with yaml files instead of relying solely on the Linux command line interface. This approach could be more comfortable for users working with yaml files or similar interfaces using the AWS Management Console. It increases complexity and limited visibility compared to pure CLI commands.

I have been using Rancher Labs as a customer for two years.

I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.

A team of five people is using this solution.
I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten.

I have used the Linux command of Kubernetes. 

The initial setup is easy with the Kubernetes knowledge. You can learn using tools such as what the labs are composed of and how many workloads they have.

Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Rancher Labs is used to deliver containerized applications over a containerized architecture.

I have been using this solution for a couple of months.

The solution is stable.

Rancher Labs is scalable.

We have approximately 10 people using this solution in my organization.

We use engineers for the implementation and maintenance of the solution.

There is an annual subscription. The price of the solution should be cheaper and have better pricing flexibility.

We evaluated VMware Tanzu before choosing Rancher Labs.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Rancher Labs a seven out of ten.

We're not using it full-blown; the plan is you have the developers to be able to develop an on-prem and then move it over to the cloud. That was a scenario. We stood up these environments so that it would be easier for us to control our internal costs for development so that we're not spitting up these cycles in the cloud and causing more cost versus just building an on-prem and then moving it to the cloud.

So far, we are in the POC stage. Overall, it is working well and we are happy with its capabilities.

The product has been quite stable.

They come out with versions regularly and they are pretty simple to update and the updates are pretty straightforward. You don't have to go through a lot of stuff to go through with the gap. You have a rolling upgrade which is nice. The key part about Ranger is that it has a good relation to storage. It has a great feature for persistent storage for Kubernetes and they work extremely well with one another. Otherwise, you've got OpenShift that uses Cipher and that's yet another infrastructure you have to build out. 

The scalability potential is very good.

We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated. When you're dealing with Kubernetes, it is easier, however, there's still a lot of convoluted types of commands. 

The situation goes pretty deep and when things go South, you spent a lot of time trying to figure things out, and it takes a certain amount of skillsets. To ramp up those skillsets takes time. Unfortunately, we don't have the time to ramp up those skillsets to bring those things in. There are other solutions out there such as HashiCorp, which offers its own version of managing containers. It doesn't use Kubernetes; is a different way of doing it.

The product could use just a little bit more Federation-type capabilities going forward when you're going to the cloud. That's the kind of stuff I can use. You've got different regions within the cloud, and just from that, we that kind of support.

I've been using the solution for about a year now.

The stability of the solution has been good overall. It's reliable and offers good performance. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

The solution will scale well. That said, we haven't tested it, however, it's pretty straightforward. You just run a couple of commands to build out another node and you scale.

Currently, we don't have too many people on the product. It's just a very few people, just the Unix team, which is about six people right now.

Technical support is very good. They're very helpful and responsive. We are quite please with the level of assistance we receive.

The initial setup wasn't simple. It was a bit difficult and a bit complex. We had to get a little help from the Rancher folks to set it up initially, as we really didn't know what the hell we were doing.

The solution doesn't need a lot of maintenance; we have a team of six people working on the solution currently and any one of us could handle it.

Rancher helped us a lot at the outset. We didn't know how to manage the initial setup by ourselves.

I don't handle contracts or licensing costs. I can't speak to how much the solution costs.

That said, it is my understanding that the pricing is very comparable to what else is in the market.

We're starting to look at Amazon EKS. We haven't begun to work with it, however, since we use Kubernetes, it may be an option in the future.

We're using the latest version of the solution at this time. I can't recall the exact version number, however.

Currently, the solution not fully in production just yet. It's still kind of like a POC. The value it brings to us is that it's a great tool. We're able to use it. It seems to be able to do the job, however, we are still looking around.

I have no negative thoughts about Rancher. It's a great product for what it is. As far as getting support, the support has been very good. There are some good price points. Ever now since they were acquired by SUSE there's been plenty of opportunities there as well.

In general, I would rate the product at a seven out of ten.

We use the product to manage Kubernetes licensing, the flow of the containers, and monitoring purposes.

The product is simple to use for a beginner. It has an efficient log management feature.

They should improve application visibility along with code visibility.

We have been using Rancher Labs for four years.

It is a stable platform. I rate its stability a seven out of ten.

A team of ten DevOps executives uses Rancher Labs in our organization.

We used Ansible platform. We switched to Rancher Labs as it is simpler to use.

It is easy to install and integrate with VMware and OpenShift. It takes around a few minutes to complete the process.

I rate Rancher Labs an eight out of ten.