Rancher Everywhere – at the Edge, in the Core, and in the Cloud

However, Kubernetes and the associated innovation do not have to be a “Do it yourself Exercise”! That is one reason why FullStackS relies on the best Kubernetes management platform on the market: the Rancher ecosystem.

Consisting of:

And more recently also a “purpose build” Operating System for the operation of containers – especially in the edge – SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro.

By the way, we are not alone in this view – leading analysts share it:

Rancher helps organizations build this foundation necessary for innovation through a coordinated stack of solutions (“puzzle pieces”) and complete coverage of Day 1 to Day 2 Actions for the smooth operation of this platform.

With Rancher, you operate your Kubernetes clusters everywhere – but you need a foundation to start with: the Rancher Management Cluster.

At FullStackS, we have pursued the goal of installing Rancher – as a management platform for your innovation – everywhere and automatically via our Infrastructure as Code approach. In the area of “Infrastructure as Code”, Hashicorp’s Terraform is the de facto standard.

Using this approach, we can roll out Rancher and Kubernetes in any environment. Automated, customizable, repeatable, and even from pipelines for different environments such as development, test, or production environments, including best practices and our experience since 2014.

This is how we create your individual foundation for innovation. Fast, guaranteed, and efficient.

At the current time, FullStackS supports the following environments for the provision of a Rancher Management Cluster installation:

The actual Kubernetes clusters managed by Rancher (so-called “downstream clusters”) can be operated on any type of infrastructure (VM, Bare-Metal, Cloud).

What Does a Typical Rancher Rollout Look like?

Day Zero: Initial workshop with the FullStackS RAID Log approach

Day one:

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Infrastructure as Code – What should I Imagine it to be?

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the management and provisioning of infrastructure via code instead of a manual process. With IaC, the desired infrastructure is described in a declaration. This declaration – with all associated specifications – enables a repeatable provision of the infrastructure. Through abstraction, a declaration can be used virtually anywhere, e.g. on-premises (VMware vSphere) or in the cloud (hyperscalers). Through the code approach, the infrastructure can be managed, versioned and edited by teams in source code management systems (e.g. GIT) (scaling).

All infrastructure projects of FullStackS GmbH are carried out according to the IaC approach “Everything as Code” – the customer receives this at the end of the project.