SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs

Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by mugsie on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:51AM (#23770417)

The real value is the Install / Life Cycle orchestration - vanilla K8S has really marked that firmly as "not their problem" - which is the correct thing for them to do.

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by AlphaSite on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:58PM (#23771778)

Cluster API should hopefully obsolete that problem, sooner rather than later.

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by mugsie on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:12PM (#23771890)

Hopefully, but Cluster API relies on something like Rancher (or AKS/EkS/GKE) to do the deployment underneath it - it still kind of outsources the life cycle.

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by tstyle on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:34AM (#23770903)

What does life cycle orchestration mean?

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by mugsie on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:45AM (#23771020)

Replacing nodes, helping repairing broken things, upgrading the control plane, upgrading etcd etc.

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by techntoke on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:23PM (#23774861)

All easily done using Helm and kubeadm.

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by mugsie on Thursday July 09, 2020 @06:35AM (#23778721)

Some of that is easily done with Helm and kubeadm, but not all of it, and definitely doesn't scale as you grow the number and size of the clusters running.

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Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs by techntoke on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:22PM (#23774852)

You clearly haven't used or heard of kubeadm, which is a certified installer and lifecycle tool from CNCF.

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