# rancher/rancher

Complete container management platform

Repository: https://github.com/rancher/rancher
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rancher
Homepage: http://rancher.com
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: rancher, docker, kubernetes, orchestration, cattle, containers
Last push: 2026-08-26T23:27:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4317, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 84}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 25873, forks 3217 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:38.702208+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: container-orchestration, auth, authorization, monitoring, deployment, self-hosted, http-server
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code, microservices, self-hosted
- platform: go, self-hosted
- tags: kubernetes-management, multi-cluster, rancher, kubernetes-as-a-service, rbac, edge-computing, hybrid-cloud, containers, devops, docker, kubernetes, linux, web-server

## Member repositories
- rancher/rancher (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:38.702208+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:55:58.169759+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rancher/rancher (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:38.702208+00:00, sha d487f5f8280d)
  - homepage: http://rancher.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:34.461168+00:00, sha be082e1053a0)
  - site_page: https://rancher.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:34.472044+00:00, sha 9b1019da1869)
  - site_page: https://www.rancher.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:34.479436+00:00, sha da7a555213c4)
  - site_page: https://www.rancher.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:34.474080+00:00, sha 06f1ef7b1600)
  - site_page: https://www.rancher.com/why-rancher/rancher-difference (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:34.475854+00:00, sha 060d66033dec)
  - site_page: https://www.rancher.com/support (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:34.477719+00:00, sha d579cda97486)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.