rancher/rancher
Complete container management platform observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 87
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0
- age_days: 4317
- days_rel: 7
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 84
Adoption not part of the score
25873 stars · 3217 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Rancher is an open-source container management platform for deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters across datacenters, clouds, and edge environments. It provides centralized multi-cluster management, RBAC, and integrated tooling for DevOps teams running containerized workloads in production.
Use cases
- manage multiple kubernetes clusters from one place
- centralize rbac and authentication across kubernetes clusters
- deploy kubernetes on-premises and in the cloud
- run kubernetes at the edge
- provide kubernetes-as-a-service to devops teams
- manage eks gke aks clusters alongside self-hosted clusters
When to avoid
- you run a single small cluster and a managed cloud service like EKS or GKE is sufficient
- you only need lightweight local Kubernetes development rather than fleet management
- you cannot run an additional management control plane alongside your clusters
Facets
application · maturity stable
container-orchestration auth authorization monitoring deployment self-hosted http-server cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code microservices self-hosted go self-hosted kubernetes-management multi-cluster rancher kubernetes-as-a-service rbac edge-computing hybrid-cloud containers devops docker kubernetes linux web-server
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/rancher/rancher · fetched 2026-08-28 · d487f5f8280d
- homepage: http://rancher.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · be082e1053a0
- site_page: https://rancher.com/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9b1019da1869
- site_page: https://www.rancher.com/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · da7a555213c4
- site_page: https://www.rancher.com/pricing · fetched 2026-08-29 · 06f1ef7b1600
- site_page: https://www.rancher.com/why-rancher/rancher-difference · fetched 2026-08-29 · 060d66033dec
- site_page: https://www.rancher.com/support · fetched 2026-08-29 · d579cda97486
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| rancher/rancher | main | 95 |
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