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Add to SafariWhen comparing Rancher vs Kitematic, the Slant community recommends Rancher for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to Portainer?” Rancher is ranked 1st while Kitematic is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Rancher is:
Intuitive and easy to use web gui.
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Pros
Pro Web GUI cluster management
Intuitive and easy to use web gui.
Pro Mult-environment cluster system
- Cattle (Rancher default)
- Swarm
- Kubernetes
- Mesos
Pro Service catalog is easy
Rancher provides a catalog of application templates that make it easy to deploy complex stacks.
- Rancher certified catalog
- Community service catalog
Pro Self-service application stack for self-monitoring
Great contributions from the co community who build the service stack catalog.
One of them is the "Prometheus" template which deploys a collection of containers for monitoring a platform. It's capable of querying all aspects of your environment with some nice pre-built dashboards.
Pro Access control polices
Detailed role-based access control policies can be defined independently for each cluster.
Pro Bundled with Docker
Ships with Docker for Windows and Mac.
Pro Easy to use
You only need to find a Docker image on the Docker hub, click on it, and it will automatically be installed and will run inside the application.
Cons
Con Little change
Has seen little change since it's acquisition by Docker in 2015.
