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  Telstra Ventures Invests in Rancher!
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  Today, we announced our $40M funding round led by Telstra Ventures. We have been working with Telstra as a customer for many years. When Telstra Ventures, who was familiar with Telstra’s success in using Rancher and Kubernetes, approached us for a potential funding round, it was a no-brainer. A leading telco like Telstra exemplifies Rancher’s vision to Run Kubernetes Everywhere. We believe Kubernetes will be the standard compute platform from data center and cloud to the edge, and our unique vision has driven the company’s success including doubling our customer base and achieving 169% revenue growth in 2019.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/telstra-ventures-invests-rancher/
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  AI Meets Kubernetes: Install JupyterHub with Rancher
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  AI and Machine Learning are becoming critical differentiators in the technology landscape. By their nature, AI and ML are computation hungry workloads. They require best-in-class distributed computing environments to thrive. AI and ML present a perfect use case for Kubernetes, the distributed computing platform engineered at Google to run their massive workloads. What is JupyterHub? JupyterHub is a multi-user data exploration tool that is often key for data science and machine learning research and development.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/ai-meets-kubernetes/
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  Transforming Telematics with Kubernetes and Rancher
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  “As we extend our leadership position in Europe, it’s never been more important to put containers at the heart of our growth strategy. The flexibility and scale that Rancher brings is the obvious solution for high-growth companies like ours.” – Thomas Ornell, IT Infrastructure Engineer, ABAX Norwegian leader in fleet management, equipment and vehicle tracking, ABAX is one of Europe’s fastest-growing technology businesses. The company provides sophisticated fleet tracking, electronic mileage logs and equipment and vehicle control systems to more than 26,500 customers.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/transforming-telematics-with-kubernetes-and-rancher/
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  Running Containers in AWS with Rancher
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  This blog will examine how Rancher improves the life of DevOps teams already invested in AWS’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) but looking to run workloads on-prem, with other cloud providers or, increasingly, at the edge. By reading this blog you will also discover how Rancher helps you escape the undeniable attractions of a vendor monoculture while lowering costs and mitigating risk. Why is AWS EKS So Popular? AWS is the world’s largest cloud provider, with over a million customers and $10 billion in 2018 net income.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/running-containers-in-aws-with-rancher/
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  Kubernetes Drives Growth and Innovation in Financial Services
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  “Everyone’s done the ‘hello world’ foray into containers, but when it actually comes to production and release, it’s a different beast. Rancher is a really nice solution that fills all the gaps that you discover when deploying containers to production.” – Alison Johnston, CTO, Cardano Founded in 2000, the Cardano Group is a privately-owned, purpose-built risk and investment specialist — and a financial pioneer. It is widely recognized as a market leader in the provisioning of specialized services to private-sector and collective pension programs in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/cardano/
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  Enhancing Kubernetes Security with Pod Security Policies, Part 1
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  What is a Pod Security Policy? Kubernetes Pod Security Policies (PSPs) are a critical component of the Kubernetes security puzzle. Pod Security Policies are clusterwide resources that control security sensitive attributes of pod specification and are a mechanism to harden the security posture of your Kubernetes workloads. Kubernetes platform teams or cluster operators can leverage them to control pod creation and limit the capabilities available to specific users, groups or applications.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/pod-security-policies-part-1/
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  The GitOps Kubernetes Connection
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  In the first article in this series, we talked about making Kubernetes essential to your DevOps pipeline. We reviewed CI/CD and DevOps and why their relationship with Kubernetes is so powerful. In this article, I’m going to dive into another term in the application development and management mix: GitOps. We’ll cover what GitOps is, how it affects an organization and how it aligns with Kubernetes. What is GitOps? GitOps is a process that leverages the Git developer toolset for operations and management of cloud-native applications.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/gitops-kubernetes-connection/
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  Kubernetes Consolidation: What Does It Mean for Rancher Labs?
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  Kubernetes Consolidation: What Does It Mean for Rancher Labs? The last twelve months have seen the Kubernetes landscape change dramatically. With much consolidation occurring among leading players, it’s never been more important to give customers a credible open source alternative. To discuss the current market landscape, Rancher Labs Co-Founder and CEO Sheng Liang recently caught up with Swapnil Bhartiya, editor of technology news site TFiR (aka The Fourth Industrial Revolution).
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/kubernetes-consolidation-what-does-it-mean-for-rancher/
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  Running Containers in Azure with Rancher
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  Rancher allows enterprises to adopt container and Kubernetes-related technologies incrementally. It supports many scenarios ranging from, “we are just getting started with containers,” to, “we are running Kubernetes in production but are struggling to scale up operations.” However, as Microsoft’s hosted Kubernetes service grows in popularity, it is reasonable for our users to ask, “How does Rancher add value to running containers in Azure using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?”
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/running-containers-in-azure-with-rancher/
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  Citrix and Rancher Integration: Cloud-Native Stack on Kubernetes
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  Kubernetes and containers are changing how applications are built, deployed and managed. Rancher makes application deployment simple and easily portable regardless of location or infrastructure. At Citrix, we operate on the same core principle. We provide application delivery and load balancing solutions for a high-quality user experience, to any device, across any network, for your web, traditional and cloud-native applications regardless of where they are hosted. Citrix is excited about our collaboration with Rancher Labs to deliver our cloud-native stack on their complete Kubernetes management platform.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/citrix-rancher-integration/
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  Migrate Your Windows 2003 Applications to Kubernetes
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  Introduction There’s no one-size-fits-all migration path for moving legacy applications to the cloud. These applications typically reside on either physical servers, virtual machines or on premises. While the goal is generally to rearchitect or redesign an application to leverage cloud-native services, it’s not always the answer. Re-architecting an existing application to a microservice architecture or to cloud native presents several challenges in terms of cost, complexity and application dependencies.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/migrate-windows-to-kubernetes/
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  Transport Layer Security Termination In Rancher 2.x, Part Two
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  Introduction In this blog series, we’ll explore a few ways that Rancher uses of TLS certificates. TLS, or Transport Layer Security, is a cryptographic protocol used to secure network communication. It is the successor to the now-deprecated Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. You can expect to walk away with an understanding of how TLS integrates into various Rancher components, and how you can prepare your environment to properly leverage TLS in Rancher.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/transport-layer-security-p2/
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  Make Kubernetes Essential to Your DevOps Pipeline
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  Kubernetes has seen an incredible rise over the past few years as organizations leverage containers for complex applications, micro-services and even cloud-native applications. And with the rise of Kubernetes, DevOps has gained more traction. While they may seem very different — one is a tool and the other is a methodology — they work together to help organizations deliver fast. This article explains why Kubernetes is essential to your DevOps strategy.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/create-kubernetes-devops-pipeline/
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  Rancher Ranked #3 in 2020 Customer Happiness Awards
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  Our customers are happy! Based on our average NPS* score of 77, Nicereply ranked us 3rd in its Customer Loyalty category in the 2020 Customer Happiness Awards. Delivering the best possible customer support is at the heart of everything we do, so this recognition is particularly gratifying. The adoption of Kubernetes is accelerating digital transformation in the enterprise, but it’s complex. Rancher eases the learning curve and enables Kubernetes adoption by ITOps and DevOps teams.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/customer-happiness-awards/
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  Transport Layer Security Termination In Rancher 2.x, Part One
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  Introduction In this blog series, we’ll explore a few different ways that Rancher uses TLS certificates. TLS, or Transport Layer Security, is a cryptographic protocol used to secure network communication. It is the successor to the now-deprecated Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. You can expect to walk away with an understanding of how TLS integrates into various Rancher components, and how you can prepare your environment to properly leverage TLS in Rancher.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/transport-layer-security/
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  Rancher vs. OpenShift – A Consultant’s View
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  In any rapidly emerging market, consultants can be a great source for vendor-neutral insights, as they typically work with multiple technologies to help their customers make informed decisions. In that vein, Derya (Dorian) Sezen of kloia, a new-era consulting organization that provides services toward transition of legacy workloads to frontline technologies in Cloud, DevOps and Microservices, recently wrote a blog summarizing his experience with Rancher and Red Hat OpenShift. In his blog, Dorian compared and scored the two Kubernetes management tools across 13 categories including installation easiness, CNCF/industry standards, open-source, licensing, multi-cluster, upgrades, Kubernetes version, vendor-lock, Windows container support, support, sales, partner ecosystem and bundle options.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/rancher-vs-openshift/
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  Find Security Vulnerabilities in Kubernetes Clusters
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  Security is one of the most talked-about topics for Kubernetes users. Google “Kubernetes security” and you’ll find a huge number of articles, blogs and more. The reason is simple: you need to align your container and Kubernetes security with your organization’s existing security profile. Kubernetes has some strong security best practices for your cluster—authentication and authorization, encryption in secrets and objects in the etcd database—to name a few. However, you need to be aware of other risks, such as privilege escalation and secrets obtained.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/kubernetes-security-vulnerabilities/
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  Rancher Security: 2019 Recap
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  It’s that time of year again, the time for retrospective articles and “Top 10 of the Year” posts. We decided to focus our recap on how CVEs and changes in the threat landscape affected Kubernetes in 2019, and what changes that brought about inside of Rancher. Throughout 2019, solutions across the CNCF stack prioritized security and brought it to the forefront of both mind and action. The Kubernetes project published the initial results of its security review and presented its plan for moving security forward in the project.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2019/rancher-security-2019-recap/
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  Rancher 2.3: Istio and Kiali
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  Rancher is a single point of control to manage all your kubernetes clusters anywhere. Rancher 2.3.x was released a few weeks back and it came with huge updates. Top Features included Istio and Windows nodes support. In this article, we will mainly discuss Istio support offered out of the box through the Rancher UI, see an example deployment, and visualize it via the Kiali dashboard. Prerequisites: Kubernetes Cluster up and running Rancher Installation and importing the cluster In this example, we will use a Large k3s managed cluster by CIVO cloud with Rancher App Installed (Rancher Application from the marketplace will install Rancher on the cluster and import it as well).
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/rancher-istio-kiali/
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  7 Days with Rio
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  I’m back from KubeCon, and I want to bury myself in Rio. No, not Carnivale - the application deployment engine for Kubernetes. We can do that, right? For 7 days I learned everything I could about using Rio for application deployment in Kubernetes, and in these videos I share with you what works, what doesn’t, and how you can get started using this amazing tool. Day 0 For the next 7 days I’m going to learn everything I can about using Rio for application deployment in Kubernetes, and I’ll share with you what works, what doesn’t, and how you can get started using this amazing tool.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2019/7-days-with-rio/