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rancher/rancher

Complete container management platform observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/rancher/rancher · homepage · Go · Apache-2.0 (permissive) 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

Full methodology

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

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Member repositories

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