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SUSE Rancher

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4.5
Market Presence: Cloud Management Tooling (Transitioning to Cloud Financial Management Tools), Container Management

Overview

Product Information on SUSE Rancher

Updated 13th October 2025

What is SUSE Rancher?

SUSE Rancher is a software platform designed for managing and deploying Kubernetes clusters across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. The software provides centralized control over multiple clusters and enables organizations to automate cluster provisioning, upgrades, and configuration. It includes features for security policy management, access controls, monitoring, and application catalog integration, supporting diverse infrastructure requirements. SUSE Rancher addresses the business problem of simplifying Kubernetes operations, allowing for consistent management, scalability, and compliance across mixed environments. The software also facilitates integration with existing tools and streamlines application deployment, helping organizations maintain reliable container orchestration and resource utilization.

SUSE Rancher Pricing

SUSE Rancher software uses a subscription-based pricing model, where organizations pay an annual or multi-year fee based on the number of managed clusters or nodes. The software provides support and feature access at different tiers corresponding to specific needs, with pricing varying according to deployment size and included support options.

Overall experience with SUSE Rancher

DevOps engineer
<50M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Rancher - an actually good cluster management platform”

4.0
Nov 8, 2023
My experience ranges from exceptional to poor, where it heavily depends on what you are trying to achieve. Installation is smooth, cluster deployment varies on the platform, CNI and CSI you are tying to use, workload management is satisfactory, cluster extensions management is hit or miss, depending on the version and support for it on Rancher. But overall it is still my go-to platform for cluster management, since it has broad support for many enterprise solutions out of the box.
Head of Dynamic Computing Operations
250M - 500M USD, Telecommunication
CRITICAL

“If you are looking for containers for your VI, Rancher is an option to evaluate!!!”

3.0
Feb 25, 2021
When looking for a product that we could integrate with our virtualization platform, we discovered that Rancher was the best option in economic and technical terms, so we decided to do a proof of concept that has gone very well.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 22nd February 2024

Founded as a global entity, SUSE is focused on the provision of enterprise-grade, open-source solutions. These solutions are recognized for their innovative, dependable, and secure features, and are utilized extensively across several industries. SUSE is known for its proficiency in Linux for critical businesses, Management of Enterprise Containers, and Edge solutions. By working in collaboration with communities and other entities, the company enables its clientele to pioneer developments everywhere – from data centers to the cloud and beyond. SUSE is dedicated to maintaining the principles of open source, thus providing its customers with the flexibility to address current innovation challenges and adapt their strategies and solutions in the future. With a multinational team of over 2,000 professionals, SUSE operates globally.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Year Founded
1992
Head office location
Nürnberg, Germany
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
http://www.suse.com

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Performance of SUSE Rancher Across Market Features

SUSE Rancher Likes & Dislikes

Like

That it supports vanilla K8S, has built-in integration with private code repositories and LDAP servers, has a large and active community, and supports many deployment options, both for the software itself and for the clusters as well.

Like

Easy integration with our virtualization platform

Like

SUSE team hit on things we needed without us even asking about them. The implementation with SUSE went very smooth and the software immediately gave us an effective and affordable way to keep track of our software licences, track how those licences are allocated and utilized across the business, and improved ability to monitor our computers.

Dislike

Support for new cloud provider functions sometimes lag a month or two behind, debugging cluster bootstrap is sometimes opaque and hard to understand, node IP management for certain providers needs to be handled manually or with scripts.

Dislike

Rancher need to have access to internet so they need to have option to acces central repository instead that the only option is intenet

Dislike

If you only have to manage one or some few Kubernetes clusters, it would surely be too much overhead to use SUSE Rancher.

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Peer Discussions

SUSE Rancher Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 71 ratings and reviews for Cloud Management Tooling (Transitioning to Cloud Financial Management Tools) market. View all 125 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.5

(71 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
54%
4 Star
44%
3 Star
3%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • DevOps engineer
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Rancher - an actually good cluster management platform

    4.0
    Nov 8, 2023
    My experience ranges from exceptional to poor, where it heavily depends on what you are trying to achieve. Installation is smooth, cluster deployment varies on the platform, CNI and CSI you are tying to use, workload management is satisfactory, cluster extensions management is hit or miss, depending on the version and support for it on Rancher. But overall it is still my go-to platform for cluster management, since it has broad support for many enterprise solutions out of the box.
  • Vice President Information Technology
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    The dashboard and the setup was very intuitive and SUSE was the most transparent vendor

    5.0
    Oct 9, 2023
    Asset management platform that is cloud-based and affordable with an ease of use that we are yet to find in another software. With SUSE Rancher, its all in one place where we can easily see and track each device and robust incident management, in addition to asset management led to even more benefits for our company.
  • IT ARCHITECT
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Orchestrate Kubernetes everywhere

    4.0
    Aug 29, 2023
    We managed to standardize and orchestrate all our our Kubernetes clusters with SUSE Rancher.
  • DEVOPS ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Best solution for managing multiple K8s Clusters

    4.0
    Mar 17, 2023
    Rancher is Very useful for managing multiple Kubernetes Clusters in a single UI
  • CONTAINER COMPUTE ENGINEER
    1B-10B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Great Kubernetes orchestrator with not so great TechSupport

    4.0
    Oct 21, 2022
    Rancher is a great Kubernetes orchestrator; we've been working with it for a couple of years now and overall, it has been a nice experience we have had some issues with it but when we started considering and evaluating other options like Spectro Cloud we realized how much of a help Rancher is.
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