Rancher

Rancher is a container management platform built for organizations that deploy containers in production. Rancher makes it easy to run Kubernetes everywhere, meet IT requirements, and empower DevOps teams.

→ rancher.com, docs

General idea

Rancher platform

Quick start

• Get Started with SUSE Rancher in 2 Easy Steps (see also Installing Rancher on a Single Node Using Docker)

# creates Rancher container
sudo docker run --privileged -d --restart=unless-stopped -p 80:80 -p 443:443 rancher/rancher

# manual: open http://localhost and follow instructions to login, at the end download the kubeconfig file

# sets kubectl to the Kubernetes cluster and displays the single node
export KUBECONFIG=local.yaml
kubectl get nodes