[rjzzleep]

What's the state of Rancher these days? I was handing over a clients project and looking for someone to maintain it long term. I chose Rancher in my ignorance, but all Rancher did was tank the project.

They installed their own halfbaked inhouse CloudNative Storage Provider, then quoted the client 50k to try to stabilize it. Their sales people were also nonstop trying to sell them on more consulting hours on top of the 50k they were taking in license fee for a 3 node cluster.

The whole thing left such a bad taste in my mouth that whenever I see Rancher I tell my clients to look for other options and run away as far as possible.

Now that Suse owns them I'm a bit more open to it, but I imagine there are still a lot of old rancher people in there.

Can anyone enlighten me on the current state of affairs?

[bbunix]

The latest version 2.6 has an issue where it can lose track of the cluster state, rendering it useless. (You had one job Rancher).

[CasperDern]

UI looks nice but is janky. Documentation is lacking, but sufficient. Longhorn works great (if you ignore CPU usage due to syncing when there's a lot of IOPS). Overal though self-hosting it has been pretty great for us from a usability perspective. Not sure if it's as enterprise-ready as they say though. Also haven't had to deal with their sales/support (yet).

[arcastroe]

I self-host rancher 2.6 for personal use and maintain a 3-node cluster. I find it enjoyable to work with though I only host ~13 different web applications: private docker registry, gitea, drone, plex media server, sagemath through jupyter, and a few personal projects.

It's probably unnecessary/overkill for single-user like myself, but so far I like it

[qeternity]

We use rancher for a few clusters. The new UI a overhaul is atrocious and is very broken.