[jb_gericke]

Rancher price increases over the last few years have made it prohibitive for a good number of our customers. Personally, I don't think SUSE has done much to evolve the lifecycle side of Rancher - I want a platform that updates my node operating systems when I upgrade Kubernetes (this has been in OpenShift for years and is in Tanzu). Rancher OS was silently killed off, forcing us to rebase certain customer environments, at the time RKE and Micro OS didn’t play well together, that seems to have changed somewhat but the lifecycle side is still seemingly immature. Harvester looks interesting but we haven’t found many uses-cases for hyperconverged Kube (or perhaps more accurately, appetite within enterprises). Neuvector though is pretty damn awesome. I wonder how this plays out against the Red Hat foot gun, and if it’ll allow SUSE to aggressively go out to displace RHEL (My feeling is most of the high paying enterprise customers don’t really care about what Red Hat has done).