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  Rancher 2.5 Delivers On "Computing Everywhere" Strategy
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  Despite the lockdown restrictions of the last six months, I'm delighted to announce that we've released Rancher 2.5 on schedule today. This latest release represents another major milestone of Rancher's "Computing Everywhere" strategy by delivering management capabilities that match the extraordinary popularity of Amazon EKS and our lightweight Kubernetes distribution, K3s. When we released Rancher 2.4 in March 2020, we announced a series of significant under-the-hood changes that would pave the way for Rancher to support apps deployed across up to one million clusters.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/rancher-2-5-delivers-computing-everwhere-strategy/
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  Rancher 2.5 Embraces GitOps at Scale with Rancher Continuous Delivery
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  The ability of Kubernetes to easily deploy and manage containerized software has given organizations tremendous capabilities in their cloud services, with clusters multiplying into the hundreds or thousands and extending out to the edge for any number of purposes. But its growing popularity has also led to challenges in managing complexity in an environment that is conducive to cluster sprawl. Rancher 2.5 simplifies deployment and management with Rancher Continuous Delivery, a new capability that adopts a GitOps approach toward streamlining the process across any infrastructure—private, public, hybrid or multi-cloud environments—by using a Git repository to store and manage application and configuration information automatically, ensuring consistency in deployments while taking a lot of the load off of the customer.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/rancher-2-5-embraces-gitops-at-scale-rancher-continuous-delivery/
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  Rancher 2.5 Delivers Enhanced Full Lifecycle Management of EKS Clusters
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  Amazon EKS is the most popular managed Kubernetes solution. DevOps teams can quickly spin up clusters in the cloud and get started with Kubernetes in a few clicks. As organizations embrace Kubernetes in the cloud, the challenge becomes managing clusters across multiple regions or accounts. At that point, organizations struggle to visualize all of their clusters. Additionally, security and operations teams have difficulty rolling out a consistent set of policies and configurations across the environment.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/rancher-2-5-delivers-enhanced-full-lifecycle-management-eks-clusters/
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  Gain Better Visibility into Kubernetes Cost Allocation
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  The Complexity of Measuring Kubernetes Costs Adopting Kubernetes and service-based architecture can bring many benefits to organizations – teams move faster and applications scale more easily. However, visibility into cloud costs is made more complicated with this transition. This is because applications and their resource needs are often dynamic, and teams share core resources without transparent prices attached to workloads. Additionally, organizations that realize the full benefit of Kubernetes often run resources on disparate machine types and even multiple cloud providers.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/gain-better-visibility-kubernetes-cost-allocation/
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  Connecting the World’s Travel Trade with Kubernetes
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  “With Rancher and Kubernetes, we’ve started moving to a microservices architecture. What this means is our teams don’t have to know Kubernetes inside out, just the projects they’re working on. Rancher simplifies Kubernetes for technicians, which results in greater agility and innovation.” Tertius Wessels, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Entersekt We’ve all heard about high-profile security hacks and have no doubt been the recipient of phishing emails. So, when it comes to financial services, you want to be sure that your privacy and security are never compromised.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/securing-financial-transactions-rancher/
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  Faster Kubernetes Development with Rancher, DevSpace and Loft
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  Introduction Today, Kubernetes is getting more and more important, not only in the world of operations but also in the world of development. Knowledge in Kubernetes is a highly sought after skill. Yet the question remains whether developers should get access to Kubernetes and if they even need to know about Kubernetes at all. A common approach to circumvent this problem is to abstract the complexity of Kubernetes away from the developer by providing a platform, or CI/CD pipelines, that make it easier for a developer to test an application within Kubernetes without a direct access to Kubernetes.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/faster-kubernetes-development-rancher-devspace-loft/
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  Continental Evolves Manufacturing with Kubernetes
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  “Transforming large manufacturing organizations like Continental is a huge technical and philosophical challenge. The emphasis is on finding the most intuitive and efficient way to modernize while maintaining competitive advantage. Kubernetes and Rancher will help us achieve this.” Roland Paxián, Manufacturing Infrastructure Team Lead, Continental When you think of Continental, you might think of tires – but this nearly 150-year-old company has come a long way since its origins as a rubber products manufacturer.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/continental-evolves-manufacturing-kubernetes/
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  Monitor Etcd with Prometheus and Grafana using Rancher
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  Introduction This article is a follow up to What Is Etcd and How Do You Set Up an Etcd Cluster. In this article, we will install an Etcd cluster and configure monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana, all with the help of Rancher. We’ll see how easy it is to accomplish this without the need of dependencies, as we can take full advantage of Rancher’s App Catalog. We won’t need:
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/monitor-etcd-prometheus-grafana-rancher/
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  Rancher Recognized as a Leader in Latest Forrester Wave
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  The enterprise Kubernetes management space has definitely become a lot more crowded over the past two years as traditional vendors and startups alike attempt to grab a slice of this massive market. The increasingly competitive vendor landscape makes Forrester’s recent recognition of Rancher Labs that much more meaningful. This week, Forrester Research named Rancher Labs a "Leader" in The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Development Platforms, Q3, 2020 report. The report explains how cloud-native technologies like containers and Kubernetes are becoming the preferred tools to build new software experiences and modernize existing apps at scale and across clouds.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/rancher-recognized-as-leader-latest-forrester-wave/
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  Is Kubernetes Delivering on its Promise?
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  A headline in a recent Register article jumped off my screen with the claim: “No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. Good luck avoiding lock-in, too.” Well, that certainly got my attention…for a couple of reasons. First, the emphasis on an absolute claim was quite literally shouting at me. In my experience, absolutes are rare occurrences in software engineering. Second, it was nearly impossible to imagine what evidence this conclusion was based on.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/kubernetes-app-portability-lockin/
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  Integrate AWS Services into Rancher Workloads with Triggermesh
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  Many businesses use cloud services on AWS and also run workloads on Kubernetes and Knative. Today, it’s difficult to integrate events from AWS to workloads on a Rancher cluster, preventing you from taking full advantage of your data and applications. To trigger a workload on Rancher when events happen in your AWS service, you need an event source that can consume AWS events and send them to your Rancher workload.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/integrate-aws-service-with-triggermesh/
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  Driving Kubernetes Adoption in Finance with Rancher
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  Driving Kubernetes Adoption in Finance with Rancher  “Our portfolio is geared toward creating long-term digital business models in the financial industry. Inventx is the enabler for continuous business transformation. Rancher brings the flexibility and openness that helps us achieve true transformation in the most agile and efficient way.” Domenic Mayer, Senior Cloud Engineer and Solution Architect, Inventx Supporting Microservices and Cloud Native In Switzerland, Inventx is the IT partner of choice for financial and insurance service providers.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/driving-kubernetes-adoption-finance-rancher/
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  Multi-Cluster Vulnerability Scanning with Alcide and Rancher
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  Kubernetes provides the freedom to rapidly build and ship applications while dramatically minimizing deployment and service update cycles. However, the velocity of application deployment requires a new approach that involves integrating tools as early as possible in the deployment pipeline and inspecting the code and configuration against Kubernetes security best practices. The Challenge: Automate and Unify Security Guardrails Across Multiple Clusters Kubernetes has many security knobs that address various aspects required to harden the cluster and applications running inside.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/multi-cluster-vulnerability-scanning-alcide-rancher/
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  Deploying Citrix ADC with Service Mesh on Rancher
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  Introduction As a network of microservices changes and grows, the interactions between them can be difficult to manage and understand. That’s why it’s handy to have a service mesh as a separate infrastructure layer. A service mesh is an approach to solving microservices at scale. It handles routing and terminating traffic, monitoring and tracing, service delivery and routing, load balancing, circuit breaking and mutual authentication. A service mesh takes these components and makes them part of the underlying infrastructure layer, eliminating the need for developers to write specific code to enable these capabilities.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/deploying-citrix-adc-service-mesh-rancher/
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  Upgrade a K3s Kubernetes Cluster with System Upgrade Controller
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  Kubernetes upgrades are always a tough undertaking when your clusters are running smoothly. Upgrades are necessary as every three months, Kubernetes releases a new version. If you do not upgrade your Kubernetes clusters, within a year, you can fall far behind. Rancher has always focused on solving problems, and they are at it again with a new open source project called System Upgrade Controller. In this tutorial, we will see how to upgrade a K3s Kubernetes cluster using System Upgrade Controller.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/upgrade-k3s-kubernetes-cluster-system-upgrade-controller/
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  Achieving Major Efficiencies through Migration from OpenShift to Rancher
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  “It’s more efficient for us to run a Kubernetes cluster with managed Kubernetes than in OpenShift. OpenShift has so many processes and additional tooling that add complexity. In managed Kubernetes, I just click an API and that’s it. Overall, running in Rancher equates to half the effort – and cost.” Michael Schmid, Head of Technology, amazee.io Sometimes technology partnerships are greater than the sum of their parts. That’s the case with two Swiss companies who have come together to deliver Kubernetes solutions to their customers.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/achieving-major-efficiencies-migration-openshift-to-rancher/
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  Competition or Coopetition in the Persistent Storage Market?
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  Rancher Labs’ recent launch of Longhorn was in response to DevOps’ distress call for a cloud-native persistent storage solution for Kubernetes. At the time, industry pundit Chris Mellor posted that the company had entered into direct competition with its partners Portworx and Storage OS. A healthy dose of coopetition may be more like it. From the perspective of Rancher Labs CEO Sheng Liang and Portworx CEO, Murli Thirumale, the secret to the evolution of the storage market, in this container-centric landscape, is collaboration, rather than all-out competition.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/competition-coopetition-persistent-storage-market/
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  The Power of Open Source Software: Rancher Academy Issues 1,000th Certificate
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  The Rancher Academy launched on May 15, 2020. Here we are, 94 days later, and we’ve issued our 1,000th certificate to a graduate of the Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1 course. Rancher is open source software, so anyone can download it and use it. With that freedom, though, comes a cost: we all learn how to use it according to how we need to use it. Through this lens, the actual potential of Rancher becomes distorted, and the experience of each individual varies widely.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/power-open-source-rancher-academy-issues-1000th-certificate/
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  Creating Memorable Gaming Experiences with Kubernetes
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  “Every technology decision is designed to make the experiences of players more satisfying. It’s not just the quality of the games, it’s how we create the responsive, rewarding and engaging services that surround them. Rancher is essential to this.” Donald Havas, Senior Cloud Services Manager, Ubisoft If you’re a gamer, you probably know how immersed you can get in your favorite game. Or if you’re the parent or partner of a gamer, you probably know what it’s like to try to get the attention of someone who is in “gaming mode.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/ubisoft/
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  Disaster Recovery Preparedness for Your Kubernetes Clusters
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  Introduction In the pre-Kubernetes, pre-container world, backup and recovery solutions were generally implemented at the virtual machine (VM) level. That works for traditional applications when an application runs on a single VM. But when applications are containerized and managed with an orchestrator like Kubernetes, this system falls apart. That means effective disaster recovery (DR) plans for Kubernetes must be designed for containerized architectures and natively understand the way Kubernetes functions.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/disaster-recovery-preparedness-kubernetes-clusters/