Suggestions on transitioning away from Rancher?

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  • rancher

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    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.

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  • 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

    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

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    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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