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Rancher is the perfect blend between tutum and kubernetes. I highly recommend you check it out before going down the long winding road that is kubernetes.

crb 11y ago
The Kubernetes team would love to help you make the long road less winding. My contact details are in my profile!
andreis_ 11y ago
I was going to recommend the same. If you have a small number of servers and services, Rancher is the perfect solution.
lukebennett 11y ago
Agreed, we've been trying out Rancher since its early days and we're currently in their beta program, we've really enjoyed using it - hits that sweet spot between power and simplicity. Biggest frustration is the lack of a CLI which is preventing us from being able to proceed to production as we don't want to manually handcrank API calls. You'll actually be able to use Rancher to manage Kubernetes clusters[0] in the next few weeks, if you want the best of both worlds. [0] http://rancher.com/introducing-kubernetes-environments-in-rancher-recorded-online-meetup-february-2016/ http://rancher.com/introducing-kubernetes-environments-in-ra...
- stuff4ben 11y ago
  This is awesome, never heard of Rancher before! I like the simplicity, but I'm curious why you'd want to stand up Kubernetes on top of Rancher though? What is the benefits to doing so versus running Rancher by itself?
  - lukebennett 11y ago
    I'm equally curious to be honest :) It's not something we do ourselves, I just mentioned it given the context of this thread.
    - stuff4ben 11y ago
      In watching the video, it looks like it's a replacement for "cattle" which I guess is how nodes are scaled out. Interestingly they've made deployment of K8s extremely simple. I'm looking forward to playing with Rancher in some test environments.
zshev 11y ago
One more vouch for Rancher here. Very excited about the impending GA.
ossreality 11y ago
Rancher is an OS, not a deployment platform. I really don't get everyone's hand wavey about Kubernetes. It's not a "long winding road". It takes minutes to launch a managed cluster in GKE and minutes more to deploy full examples.

crb 11y ago

The Kubernetes team would love to help you make the long road less winding. My contact details are in my profile!

andreis_ 11y ago

I was going to recommend the same. If you have a small number of servers and services, Rancher is the perfect solution.

lukebennett 11y ago

Agreed, we've been trying out Rancher since its early days and we're currently in their beta program, we've really enjoyed using it - hits that sweet spot between power and simplicity. Biggest frustration is the lack of a CLI which is preventing us from being able to proceed to production as we don't want to manually handcrank API calls. You'll actually be able to use Rancher to manage Kubernetes clusters[0] in the next few weeks, if you want the best of both worlds. [0] http://rancher.com/introducing-kubernetes-environments-in-rancher-recorded-online-meetup-february-2016/ http://rancher.com/introducing-kubernetes-environments-in-ra...

stuff4ben 11y ago
This is awesome, never heard of Rancher before! I like the simplicity, but I'm curious why you'd want to stand up Kubernetes on top of Rancher though? What is the benefits to doing so versus running Rancher by itself?
- lukebennett 11y ago
  I'm equally curious to be honest :) It's not something we do ourselves, I just mentioned it given the context of this thread.
  - stuff4ben 11y ago
    In watching the video, it looks like it's a replacement for "cattle" which I guess is how nodes are scaled out. Interestingly they've made deployment of K8s extremely simple. I'm looking forward to playing with Rancher in some test environments.

zshev 11y ago

One more vouch for Rancher here. Very excited about the impending GA.

ossreality 11y ago

Rancher is an OS, not a deployment platform. I really don't get everyone's hand wavey about Kubernetes. It's not a "long winding road". It takes minutes to launch a managed cluster in GKE and minutes more to deploy full examples.