Rancher Prime Platform
Scale your cloud native stack with Rancher Prime. A comprehensive management platform helping enterprises run Kubernetes everywhere.
Comprehensive Value From Platform to Support
Insure your workloads with the Rancher Prime subscription. Get more value from Rancher with enterprise support and additional platform additions strengthen your container strategy with exclusive access to professional services and our rich knowledge base.
Security, Policy Management & Compliance
Implement a security-first container strategy with Rancher Prime. Deploy Rancher from our trusted private registry. Minimize misconfigurations across your clusters with access to pre-written Kubewarden policies and get full lifecycle container security through NeuVector Prime.
Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Everywhere
Maintain your cluster’s operational reliability everywhere with Rancher Prime. Run Rancher across any certified Kubernetes distribution and ensure Day 2 cluster operations across any environment across on-premises, multi-cloud or at the edge.
Our Rancher Editions
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Rancher
The community’s favorite Kubernetes management platform — free forever
- 100% Open Source
- Full Rancher Platform Experience
- Community Support
Rancher
Prime
Get the same Rancher platform experience with added value from Rancher Prime
- 100% Open Source
- Full Rancher Platform Experience
- Enterprise Support
- Deploy from trusted private container registry
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Rancher
Prime Hosted
The premium white-glove service for managing Rancher Prime
- 100% Open Source
- Full Rancher Platform Experience
- Enterprise Support with expert-managed Rancher Prime control plane
- Deploy from trusted private container registry
- Expert-managed Rancher Prime control plane
Rancher Prime Hosted
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Detailed Comparison
Full Featured Multi Cluster Management |
Rancher |
Rancher Prime |
Rancher Prime Hosted |
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Full features of Rancher ECM platform | |||
Community training | |||
100% open-sourced code base & zero lock-in | |||
4 month release cycle, aligning to upstream Kubernetes | |||
18-month enterprise lifecycle with proactive support | |||
Trusted Delivery w/ 24x7x365 Product Support & Professional Services | |||
Delivery from a Trusted Rancher Hosted Container Registry | |||
SLA coverage across Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher & certified integrations | |||
Service continuity, troubleshooting & root cause analysis | |||
Professional services team | |||
Assigned CSM to aid with onboarding & deployment* | |||
Target response time as little as SEV-1 cases* | |||
Dedicated Slack channel with support team* | |||
Security, Policy Management & Compliance | |||
Built-in Rules for Policy Management with Kubewarden | |||
SLSA certification and sharable SBOM | |||
Application Collection for curated application delivery of common apps with minimal, hardened images with signatures and SBOMs | |||
OCI Prime Registry containing signed and trusted artifacts for Rancher Prime | |||
UI Extensions | |||
Integration options with SUSE’s entire portfolio of cloud-native technologies | |||
Easy integration with 3rd-party open source technologies | |||
Neuvector UI Integration and a new security dashboard | |||
General availability of Cluster API and new Cluster Classes | |||
Rancher Extensibility & Ecosystem | |||
Rancher Platform UI Extensions Framework | |||
Certified & Supported Rancher UI Extensions | |||
Certified & Supported Rancher Projects (Elemental, Kubewarden)* | |||
Rancher Knowledgebase: Onboarding, Training & Enablement | |||
Basic Documentation & Training | |||
On-Demand White Glove Getting-Started Guide | |||
Operating at Scale Documentation & Reference Architectures | |||
Day 2 Support & Support Posture Assessment | |||
SUSE Collective & Collaboration | |||
Invitation to Customer Advisory Boards | |||
Drive Rancher Product Roadmap | |||
Direct access to our teams to influence product direction | |||
Rancher Prime AI Assistant | |||
Early access to new features | |||
Rancher for the Edge | |||
OS Management with Elemental | |||
x86 Architecture | |||
Accelerated Time to Value | |||
Rancher Enterprise - a single subscription to the entire Rancher Prime portfolio | |||
Start with day 2 operations | |||
Lowered Total Cost of Ownership | |||
Scale on Demand |
Rancher Prime Capabilities
A comprehensive cloud native platform designed to simplify the management, deployment and operations of Kubernetes.
Simplified Cloud Native Infrastructure
Ensure business continuity and optimize infrastructure workflows with the Rancher Prime platform. Unify virtualized workloads with containers, navigate storage, deploy CI/CD workflows and OS management from a single platform.
Fortified Security and Observability
Strengthen your container security with Rancher Prime. Get full lifecycle security capabilities, advanced policy management and AIOps across insights and observability metrics from the platform.
Streamlined Application Development
Boost developer productivity and simplify application workflows with Rancher Prime. Enable local development and testing while enhancing collaboration between operators and developers.
Kubernetes Distributions
Run Rancher Prime on our certified and supported Kubernetes distributions built by the Rancher by SUSE team.
Features
Current Features
Simplified Cloud Native Infrastructure
Ensure business continuity and optimize infrastructure workflows with the Rancher Prime platform. Unify virtualized workloads with containers, navigate storage, deploy CI/CD workflows and OS management from a single platform.
Fortified Security and Observability
Strengthen your container security with Rancher Prime. Get full lifecycle security capabilities, advanced policy management and AIOps across insights and observability metrics from the platform.
Streamlined Application Development
Boost developer productivity and simplify application workflows with Rancher Prime. Enable local development and testing while enhancing collaboration between operators and developers.
Kubernetes Distributions
Run Rancher Prime on our certified and supported Kubernetes distributions built by the Rancher by SUSE team.
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