[allyant]

I choose Rancher 1.x for a large project at my last place, it allowed Researchers to run their algorithms wrapped up in containers. From the start Rancher was the perfect solution that checked all the boxes: really easy to use web interface, LDAP Authentication, automatic deployment of hosts, easy to wrap up deployments into catalog items. But after a few months it was just so unbelievably buggy due to the products maturity.

It's good to see they have got their focus right with version 2.

[shengliang]

Thanks for using Rancher 1.x, which definitely went through growing pains. The latest Rancher 1.x release, 1.6.17, is actually quite mature and solid. But as much as we like 1.6, the container industry is very different now from the days we built 1.x. With Kubernetes available everywhere, we no longer need to write our own orchestration engine and worry about networking and storage integration, we can focus on things Rancher does well, as you pointed out, things like the web interface, authentication, node (host) management, and the catalog.