The cluster just went Active. You have not deployed anything, installed anything or configured anything, and the first screen already has an opinion about your nodes.

Mine said the pods bar was at 45 percent. On a cluster with nothing on it.

That number is the most useful thing on the page, and it is easy to scroll past, so this is a short guide to reading the first screen of a new cluster in SUSE Rancher for AWS before you put anything on it. Everything here is from two clusters created the same evening in eu-west-3 and eu-north-1, both on the Small preset.

SUSE Rancher for AWS manages Amazon EKS clusters only. If your fleet is mixed, self-hosted SUSE Rancher Prime is the better fit.

SUSE Rancher for AWS manages Amazon EKS clusters only. If your fleet is mixed, self-hosted SUSE Rancher Prime is the better fit.

Creating your first EKS cluster, and what it costs

You subscribed on AWS Marketplace. The 30-day trial clock is running. You log in expecting a dashboard, and instead the product asks you for something most SaaS never asks for: an IAM role inside your own AWS account. That is the right question to ask first. It is also the step that decides whether your […]

Do the arithmetic before you read the rest of this. Count the people on your team who need access to a cluster. Multiply by the number of clusters you run. That result is how many access decisions somebody is maintaining by hand today. Now add one cluster and run it again. The jump between those […]

At an AWS event recently, someone asked me a question I get constantly. He ran three Amazon EKS clusters. He wanted to know, plainly, whether a management layer on top was worth it or whether he was about to be sold something he did not need. I did not pitch him. I gave him the […]

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