Suggestions on transitioning away from Rancher?

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  • rancher

    Complete container management platform

    Adding to this, my company also thinks about ditching Rancher. We are for example waiting for an explanation why Editing support for RKE1, the actual production engine, was lost https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/36595.

  • kubermatic

    Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform - the Central Kubernetes Management Platform For Any Infrastructure

    Check out kubermatic https://www.kubermatic.com/

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • kubespray

    Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

    We also evaluated Rancher but ended up spinning up our cluster using kubespray. I did spend some time understanding do they use kubeadm under the hood but so it worked fine for on-prem clusters.

  • community-edition

    Discontinued VMware Tanzu Community Edition is no longer an actively maintained project. Code is available for historical purposes only. (by vmware-tanzu)

    Tanzu Community Edition (https://tanzucommunityedition.io/) with "unmanaged clusters" is a fully free + OSS solution for using the cluster and package management tools of vmware's Tanzu without being locked in to other parts of the vmware stack. I honestly don't know all the details but there's a way of buying a support contract also.

  • community

    Kubernetes community content

    Sure. Perhaps Rancher's namesake has been absorbed under SUSE LLC in the grander picture of companies committing to Kube and other projects as reported by the CNCF at https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/9/companies-table?orgId=1, but it's worth noting that going back 5 years does not yield a commit under the Rancher name. Additionally, you mentioned "committee chair and everything between". According to the CNCF, the only thing SUSE is reported to be co-chairing is the Docs SIG. Even if we were to assume that Rancher's commits now fall under SUSE LLC, that still means a company that is not in the business of selling a Kube distro, is investing more in Kube, than Rancher + SUSE. https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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