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I believe Rancher desktop has more of an out-of-the-box focus on Kubernetes, it uses Rancher's k3s and whatnot. Podman desktop treats k8s as more of an optional
by slimsag 3y ago
I believe Rancher desktop has more of an out-of-the-box focus on Kubernetes, it uses Rancher's k3s and whatnot. Podman desktop treats k8s as more of an optional thing, e.g. you use Kind to create a cluster.
Of course there are also organizational differences, Podman seems to be more of a community led open-source project whereas Rancher is ultimately trying to sell enterprise kubernetes management software.
In my experience, k3s looks great on the surface but I ran into quite a few issues operating it in a single-node use case.
If I was looking into this today, I'd definitely explore Podman/Kind instead.
- stock_toaster 3y agoThat’s good info. Thanks!
- lbourdages 3y agoIt's one checkbox to disable k3s, I don't need it as the rare times I need to test something in k8s I do it in the dev environment. The main rationale for using Rancher is that the CLI is the same as Docker. No modification to any script was needed. Podman might be better, I can't say, but for what I use it for it doesn't really matter.