Rancher and Canonical were partners for a while, and Rancher was supposed to be their frontend for a Kubernetes solution.
I was talking to both of them about on-prem solutions, and found the Rancher support covered Ubuntu hosts, and Canonical support covered Rancher. Was trying to understand which support contract we would need.
But something happened between the companies and they parted ways. And neither party would comment.
In the end, we ditched Rancher support. The price almost doubled from one year to another and covered very little. I was also unimpressed by the technical chops of the Rancher solutions architect they gave us, which didn't seem to know anything beyond the basic documentation on their site.
But we are using Rancher 2 and Rancher 1.6 in production and have been happy with the solution itself.
We are migrating our on-prem from VMware to OpenStack and may stick with Rancher as k8s provisioner if charmed k8s doesn't live up to the sales pitch.
We are a team of 4 people doing on-prem datacenters on 10+ sites around the world, so we need a little bit of plug and play.
I was talking to both of them about on-prem solutions, and found the Rancher support covered Ubuntu hosts, and Canonical support covered Rancher. Was trying to understand which support contract we would need.
But something happened between the companies and they parted ways. And neither party would comment.
In the end, we ditched Rancher support. The price almost doubled from one year to another and covered very little. I was also unimpressed by the technical chops of the Rancher solutions architect they gave us, which didn't seem to know anything beyond the basic documentation on their site.
But we are using Rancher 2 and Rancher 1.6 in production and have been happy with the solution itself.
We are migrating our on-prem from VMware to OpenStack and may stick with Rancher as k8s provisioner if charmed k8s doesn't live up to the sales pitch.
We are a team of 4 people doing on-prem datacenters on 10+ sites around the world, so we need a little bit of plug and play.