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Rancher Desktop is an open source container management and Kubernetes desktop app. https://rancherdesktop.io/ https://rancherdesktop.io/ Disclosure: I work on

by mfer 5y ago

Rancher Desktop is an open source container management and Kubernetes desktop app. https://rancherdesktop.io/ https://rancherdesktop.io/ Disclosure: I work on Rancher Desktop. Feedback welcome.

kristjansson 5y ago
Seems interesting, but the name conflict with https://rancher.com/ https://rancher.com/ is _very_ confusing. Is Rancher Desktop associated with the linked company?
- mfer 5y ago
  Rancher Desktop is being build by Rancher (which is now part of SUSE).
  - kristjansson 5y ago
    Thanks - that wasn't obvious from the Rancher Desktop site.
adolph 5y ago
Ok, I gave it a try. It's given me two K8s errors before any meaningful container work can be done. Not going to waste further time given a first run experience this bad. I'm interested in investing in my tools, not alpha-testing.
- athorax 5y ago
  Probably shouldn't run tools in alpha status then
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
emptysongglass 5y ago
You guys (by you guys I mean you and Docker, Inc) would do yourselves a huge favor not spiting the Linux devs who invented the technologies you build your tools on. Where's the Linux version? Give it to me in Snap, AppImage, Flatpak, deb, or rpm, whatever you want. Just offer something. We'll take care of the rest.
- 41209 5y ago
  It’s open source, you could probably port it yourself. I somewhat agree with your viewpoint, but given Windows 10 is generally just Windows 10 , OSX is OSX… But Linux could be anything from Redhat to Alpine to a raspberry pi , I understand why devs wouldn’t support it
- mfer 5y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. A Linux version is in the roadmap for this fall. I've had several discussions on it in the past week. Part of this was due to priorities and part of it was technicalities. For example, do we put it in a VM so that way someone can easily blow things away and we don't touch the base system? We had to come to some direction on what we wanted to do there. Now that we have that idea we need to finish up one thing on Mac that will translate over to Linux. The Linux side will be based on Lima[1] just as the Mac side is. Earlier today I had a discussion on the packaging format. [1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
  - emptysongglass 5y ago
    Thanks for the update! It's refreshing to see more turnkey GUI competitors in this space coming from larger corporate names.
- naikrovek 5y ago
  I installed this and could not get networking going again in WSL 2 until I uninstalled it. I was sad.
- mikl 5y ago
  The whole reason this (and Docker Desktop) are used is that Docker and K8s does not run natively on macOS and Windows. If you’re using Linux already, most of this stuff is as useful as nipples on a breastplate. You could theoretically run an emptied out husk of the app on Linux, but there are much better tools for working with the tools directly. So I’d be greatly surprised if any Linux kernel hackers are miffed about this.
dwaite 5y ago
I'm hitting https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/562 https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/56... but will look again in the future.
thegagne 5y ago
Feedback: 1. There's very little "getting started" info here, you seem to assume everyone already runs kube everywhere else and already has workloads ready to go. 2. Not sure if this is feasible, but I'm looking for something that solves the Docker Desktop problem! I want something that can port map to a local port for testing, I want something that I can map a local folder to in order to store job input/output. 3. I tried starting it, and I'm already running Docker Desktop. It didn't seem to start a healthy kube cluster, and actually did nothing for me but just said it was waiting for the cluster. It might have been attempting to connect to old Docker kube clusters that I'm no longer running. Did I just need to wait longer? It wasn't clear.
aranw 5y ago
Does this work with Docker compose files? For local development at the moment I mostly use docker-compose and for production using AWS Fargate so the kubernetes functionality is a bit wasted on me really
GordonS 5y ago
Can I run Docker Compose and Docker Swarm with this, or is only Kubernetes supported?

by mfer 5y ago

Rancher Desktop is an open source container management and Kubernetes desktop app. https://rancherdesktop.io/ https://rancherdesktop.io/ Disclosure: I work on Rancher Desktop. Feedback welcome.

kristjansson 5y ago

Seems interesting, but the name conflict with https://rancher.com/ https://rancher.com/ is _very_ confusing. Is Rancher Desktop associated with the linked company?

mfer 5y ago
Rancher Desktop is being build by Rancher (which is now part of SUSE).
- kristjansson 5y ago
  Thanks - that wasn't obvious from the Rancher Desktop site.

adolph 5y ago

Ok, I gave it a try. It's given me two K8s errors before any meaningful container work can be done. Not going to waste further time given a first run experience this bad. I'm interested in investing in my tools, not alpha-testing.

athorax 5y ago
Probably shouldn't run tools in alpha status then
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]

emptysongglass 5y ago

You guys (by you guys I mean you and Docker, Inc) would do yourselves a huge favor not spiting the Linux devs who invented the technologies you build your tools on. Where's the Linux version? Give it to me in Snap, AppImage, Flatpak, deb, or rpm, whatever you want. Just offer something. We'll take care of the rest.

41209 5y ago
It’s open source, you could probably port it yourself. I somewhat agree with your viewpoint, but given Windows 10 is generally just Windows 10 , OSX is OSX… But Linux could be anything from Redhat to Alpine to a raspberry pi , I understand why devs wouldn’t support it
mfer 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback. A Linux version is in the roadmap for this fall. I've had several discussions on it in the past week. Part of this was due to priorities and part of it was technicalities. For example, do we put it in a VM so that way someone can easily blow things away and we don't touch the base system? We had to come to some direction on what we wanted to do there. Now that we have that idea we need to finish up one thing on Mac that will translate over to Linux. The Linux side will be based on Lima[1] just as the Mac side is. Earlier today I had a discussion on the packaging format. [1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
- emptysongglass 5y ago
  Thanks for the update! It's refreshing to see more turnkey GUI competitors in this space coming from larger corporate names.
naikrovek 5y ago
I installed this and could not get networking going again in WSL 2 until I uninstalled it. I was sad.
mikl 5y ago
The whole reason this (and Docker Desktop) are used is that Docker and K8s does not run natively on macOS and Windows. If you’re using Linux already, most of this stuff is as useful as nipples on a breastplate. You could theoretically run an emptied out husk of the app on Linux, but there are much better tools for working with the tools directly. So I’d be greatly surprised if any Linux kernel hackers are miffed about this.

dwaite 5y ago

I'm hitting https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/562 https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/56... but will look again in the future.

thegagne 5y ago

Feedback: 1. There's very little "getting started" info here, you seem to assume everyone already runs kube everywhere else and already has workloads ready to go. 2. Not sure if this is feasible, but I'm looking for something that solves the Docker Desktop problem! I want something that can port map to a local port for testing, I want something that I can map a local folder to in order to store job input/output. 3. I tried starting it, and I'm already running Docker Desktop. It didn't seem to start a healthy kube cluster, and actually did nothing for me but just said it was waiting for the cluster. It might have been attempting to connect to old Docker kube clusters that I'm no longer running. Did I just need to wait longer? It wasn't clear.

aranw 5y ago

Does this work with Docker compose files? For local development at the moment I mostly use docker-compose and for production using AWS Fargate so the kubernetes functionality is a bit wasted on me really

GordonS 5y ago

Can I run Docker Compose and Docker Swarm with this, or is only Kubernetes supported?