Rancher 2.0 is an enterprise container management platform that makes it easy to deploy, manage and secure Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure. It provides multi-cluster management, centralized policy management, and a workload management UI to run Kubernetes anywhere with no vendor lock-in. Key features include logging, CI/CD, alerting, networking, security, and infrastructure management.

1. May 14, 2018
Presented by:
Lou Sarris (lou.sarris@rancher.com)
Ryan Holt (ryan@rancher.com)
Unified Cluster Management
with Rancher 2.0

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What is Rancher?
Enterprise Kubernetes Made Easy
Rancher is an enterprise container management platform that
makes it easy for organizations to adopt Kubernetes.
With Rancher, IT organizations can deploy, manage and secure
any Kubernetes deployment regardless of where it is running.
Rancher is intuitive to use, and built to support DevOps teams,
as they use containers to automate operations and move to
continuous delivery.

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Rancher Leadership
Sheng Liang
CEO
Darren Shepherd
Chief Architect
Shannon Williams
VP Sales and Marketing
Will Chan
VP Engineering
• Started Cloud.com in 2008, built CloudStack
• Cloud.com acquired by Citrix in 2011
• Started Rancher Labs in 2014
• Founding member of Openstack
• Founding member of Cloud Native Computing
Foundation (CNCF) and Open Container
Initiative (OCI)
• Major committer to the open source Docker
and Kubernetes projects

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What Rancher 2.0 is about
Multi-Cluster
Management
Run Kubernetes
Anywhere
Centralized
Policy Management
Workload
Management UI
No Vendor
Lock-In

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Logging CI/CD
Alerting
Networking Security

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Infrastructure
Team n
Container ManagementDevelopment Pipelines
Team 2
Team 1
Central IT
InfrastructureInfrastructure
Identity/RBAC
Cloud Credentials
Ops & Monitoring
Security Policies
Kubernetes
Dev
Staging
Prod
Kubernetes
Dev
Staging
Prod
Kubernetes
Dev
Staging
Prod

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App Catalog
CI/CD
Monitoring & Logging
Access Control
Orchestration & Scheduling
Container Engine
Network & Storage
Cloud Integration
Config DB
Secrets and Security
Registry
Rancher & CNCF

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High Level Architecture

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Demo

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Reference
Documentation:
• Rancher 2.0 Documentation (https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/)
• Quick Start (https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/quick-start-guide/)
• Rancher Labs on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh5Xtp82q8wjijP8npkVTBA)
• Webinars, Meetups, Demos, Walkthroughs
Tools and other resources:
• Rancher (https://github.com/rancher/rancher)
• RKE (https://github.com/rancher/rke)
• Rancher Kubernetes Engine, an extremely simple, lightning fast Kubernetes installer that works everywhere.
• RancherOS (https://github.com/rancher/os)
• Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker containers
• Longhorn (https://github.com/rancher/longhorn)
• Longhorn is a distributed block storage system for Kubernetes
• norman (https://github.com/rancher/norman)
• An API framework for Building Rancher Style APIs backed by K8s CustomResources.
• install-docker (https://github.com/rancher/install-docker)
• Scripts for docker-machine to install a particular docker version

13. Thank you
@Rancher_Labs https://slack.rancher.io/
http://rancher.com
https://forums.rancher.com/c/rancher-2x