Choose freedom, choose control, choose SUSE Rancher Prime

Live from Atlanta for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, SUSE takes the spotlight with a record number of announcements that redefine enterprise value. SUSE Rancher Prime is expanding at an unprecedented pace, delivering breakthroughs across AI, observability, security, and application management. All while keeping the same predictable cost for customers.

Join us during KubeCon from Day 0, at our acclaimed SUSE Rancher Day for our latest hands-on session with some of our top experts. We’ll also be present at other co-located events, such as Kubernetes on Edge day.

Here’s a sneak peak of our latest wave of SUSE Rancher Prime announcements setting a new standard for what enterprise Kubernetes management can do today. Our KubeCon announcements directly address your biggest strategic risks like vendor lock-in, management sprawl, security, cost, developer velocity and skills gaps.

Unify simplicity, control and security at enterprise scale

SUSE Rancher Prime ensures that as your Kubernetes fleet grows, your governance, access management, and security posture remain consistent and seamless across every team and cluster. The result is centralized visibility, reduced compliance risk, and greater operational confidence.

At the center of this evolution are several standout innovations that exemplify SUSE’s mission to simplify Kubernetes management while maximizing flexibility and security. SUSE Rancher AI Assistant (Tech Preview) acts as an on-demand expert designed to cut cognitive load and bridge the skills gap. It securely democratizes Kubernetes knowledge with an RBAC-aware AI guide that simplifies complex tasks and reduces Mean Time To Context (MTTC) for every user. Acting as a force multiplier for platform teams, it empowers engineers at every level to solve problems faster and with confidence. → Read the full blog here

Equally transformative, SUSE Virtual Clusters, now generally available, provide the perfect balance of developer autonomy and platform control. They deliver fully isolated, CNCF-certified Kubernetes control planes within shared infrastructure, allowing teams to innovate freely while maintaining enterprise-grade governance. → Read the full blog here

Finally, the SUSE Application Collection continues to expand, now featuring more than 120 verified open source applications built on trusted SUSE Linux BCI base images. With new FIPS-validated content for regulated industries, this growing collection offers even greater choice, security, and reliability. → Read the full blog here

Build and modernize to increase developer velocity & escape proprietary traps

This year’s releases further extend SUSE’s leadership in hybrid operations to help you stop overpaying for foundational features. The newly enhanced SUSE Virtualization platform introduces NSX-like networking flexibility for software defined networking with expanded CSI storage support from partners like Dell Technologies, Hitachi, NetApp, and Pure Storage. Enterprises can manage containers and VMs together, achieving a clear migration path away from costly proprietary virtualization. → Read the full blog here

SUSE Rancher Developer Access puts trusted content directly in developers’ hands. Developers can now consume the trusted SUSE Application Collection directly from Rancher Desktop, one of the industry’s most widely adopted applications for local Kubernetes management. This integrates security into the earliest phase of development, right on their computer, bringing DevSecOps to life where it matters most. → Read the full blog here 

Meanwhile, SUSE Private Registry is now generally available. Secure your software supply chain at the source. This air-gapped registry ensures total image sovereignty and compliance for mission-critical and highly regulated environments to eliminate reliance on expensive public cloud repositories.  → Read the full blog here 

Building on that foundation of control, Elemental 1.7 introduces simplified OS management within SUSE Rancher Prime. It extends cloud native management all the way to the operating system layer, allowing platform teams to handle provisioning, lifecycle, and upgrades with familiar declarative tools. The new release adds cross-architecture image building for diverse hardware, stronger TLS enforcement for secure Rancher communication, and improved network configurators for stability and consistency across bare metal, edge, and multi-cloud environments.→ Read the full blog here

Secure and observe to shift left

SUSE continues to empower enterprises to operate securely and efficiently at scale.

With SSO/RBAC for Rancher Prime (General Availability), organizations can enforce unified Zero Trust security and least privilege access across their entire multi cluster fleet from a single console. Seamless integration with corporate identity providers (LDAP/SAML) reduces operational risk and slashes compliance audit time through centralized reporting.→ Read the full blog here

Additionally, with the new SUSE Security Admission Controller, security teams can enforce granular policies in real-time, automatically blocking insecure workloads before they are ever deployed. This critical ‘shift-left’ capability hardens cluster security posture from the start, ensuring compliance and preventing threats at admission. → Read the full blog here

Choose Freedom, Choose Control, Choose SUSE Rancher Prime

The industry is demanding more control, freedom, and power, all without the punitive proprietary cost structure. SUSE Rancher Prime delivers on all fronts. SUSE Rancher Prime delivers that balance, giving organizations the power to innovate securely and efficiently across every environment. Platform teams can cut infrastructure costs in half by consolidating test clusters onto shared hosts through Virtual Clusters, while unified governance and centralized SSO and RBAC reporting simplify compliance and slashing audit time. Developers can onboard in minutes, supported by an AI Assistant trained to guide Kubernetes operations with precision and speed. With Rancher Prime, SUSE is proving that open innovation and enterprise control are not opposites; they are the future of cloud native success.

Rancher Prime is the strategic choice for the modern platform team. It’s the single solution to manage any Kubernetes distribution, on any cloud, on any architecture.

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Want to hear more about how SUSE can support you to modernize your business with cloud native and AI solutions?

Get in touch with your local SUSE sales team and read about all the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 announcements.

Explore how SUSE Rancher Prime is redefining enterprise Kubernetes operations:

• Learn how SUSE Rancher Prime was recognized in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management
• Discover insights from the Forrester Wave™ Report on Kubernetes and hybrid cloud strategy
• Read IDC’s ROI study showing 258% ROI and multimillion-dollar benefits for SUSE Rancher Prime customers

Unify your identity. Secure your fleet. Choose Rancher Prime.