Run Rancher, the open-source Kubernetes management platform from SUSE, in your own AWS account or GCP project. Create new clusters, import the ones you already run, and manage users, access and apps across all of them from one dashboard.
Rancher is an Apache 2.0, open-source container management platform that addresses the operational and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters. It suits platform and DevOps teams that run more than one cluster, across clouds or on-premises, and want one place to control them.
Create RKE2 and K3s clusters, or hosted EKS, AKS and GKE.
Bring clusters you already run under one dashboard.
Active Directory, LDAP, GitHub and SAML sign-in.
Permissions across users, groups, projects and clusters.
Prometheus-based monitoring with alerting built in.
A Helm chart catalog, plus Fleet to deploy from Git.
The AMI ships Rancher running on a K3s cluster on Ubuntu, so the dashboard is ready when the stack finishes.
Subscribe on AWS Marketplace and launch the CloudFormation stack with your domain and admin password. Allow 5-10 minutes.
Create a Route 53 A record for your domain with the PublicIp from the stack outputs.
Open the DashboardUrl, enter the AdminPassword you set, and confirm the server URL.
Create a new cluster or import an existing one, such as Amazon EKS, from the Rancher home page.
An AMI on AWS Marketplace, launched into your own AWS account with a CloudFormation stack.
Launch on AWS 
The same Rancher server as a Google Cloud Marketplace image, installed with the official Helm chart on K3s and deployed into your own GCP project.
Launch on Google Cloud | Rancher | Red Hat OpenShift | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Apache 2.0, open source | Subscription |
| Kubernetes clusters | RKE2, K3s, EKS, AKS, GKE and imported clusters | OpenShift clusters |
| Multi-cluster management | Built in | Advanced Cluster Management add-on |
| Managed service on AWS | No, runs in your own AWS account | Yes, ROSA |
| Self-managed option | Yes | Yes, self-managed editions |
An open-source platform from SUSE for creating, importing and managing Kubernetes clusters from one dashboard, with central authentication, role-based access, monitoring and an app catalog.
Yes. Rancher is Apache 2.0 licensed. You pay for the server and any Meetrix software fee shown on the AWS or Google Cloud listing. SUSE sells Rancher Prime separately, with 24x7 support.
RKE2 and K3s clusters it provisions, hosted Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS, Azure AKS and Google GKE, and existing clusters you import.
Open your Rancher domain and enter the admin password you set at launch, the AdminPassword stack parameter on AWS or the Admin password field in the Google Cloud deployment form, then confirm the server URL.
Yes. The image requests a Let's Encrypt certificate for your domain, on AWS automatically when the domain is hosted on Route 53. If that fails, a script on the server generates the certificate manually.
t3a.large on AWS or e2-standard-2 on Google Cloud is the recommended starting point. Size up if Rancher will manage many clusters or nodes.
Back up your server data, remove the old deployment and launch the new version from AWS Marketplace or Google Cloud Marketplace.
Rancher is open source and manages many Kubernetes distributions, including EKS, AKS and GKE. OpenShift is a subscription platform with its own clusters, and its multi-cluster management is an add-on.
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