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Rancher Labs pros and cons

Vendor: Rancher Labs
4.2 out of 5

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PROS

Rancher Labs is highly scalable.
Rancher Labs is stable and supports comprehensive integration services.
Initial setup of Rancher Labs is simple and straightforward.
Rancher Labs is an open-source tool, easy to deploy, and not vendor-locked, allowing usage across various resources.
Rancher Labs offers customized deployment processes and facilitates the management of multiple clusters across different locations.

CONS

Rancher Labs could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security.
The auto-secure feature doesn't always work reliably, especially with business-critical applications.
Improvements are needed in observability and microservice monitoring tools.
There needs to be a proper upgrading plan and migration process.
Rancher Labs should enhance application visibility along with code visibility.
 

Rancher Labs Pros review quotes

DK
Solution Architect | Head of BizDev at Greg Solutions
Apr 28, 2022
A great UI with very good integrations.
reviewer1506420 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 5, 2021
The scalability potential is very good.
Absar Shaik - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 17, 2021
The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access.
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Lokman Demirci - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Team Leader at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 26, 2022
This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us.
Gogineni Venkatachowdary - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Operations Center Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 11, 2022
The initial setup is simple and straightforward.
Vanny Yang - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Server Engineer at Cellcard
Apr 12, 2023
The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy.
Claudio Kuenzler - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at Infiniroot
May 30, 2023
The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment.
Prebin Alex - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager IT at Veoneer
Jun 29, 2023
Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool.
Joshua Kurian - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technical Architect at StarOne IT Solutions
Oct 9, 2023
The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration.
HD
Automation Engineer at FPT Telecom
Oct 13, 2023
The product is simple to use for a beginner.
 

Rancher Labs Cons review quotes

DK
Solution Architect | Head of BizDev at Greg Solutions
Apr 28, 2022
Could be more intuitive.
reviewer1506420 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 5, 2021
We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated.
Absar Shaik - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 17, 2021
The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit.
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Lokman Demirci - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Team Leader at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 26, 2022
We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications.
Gogineni Venkatachowdary - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Operations Center Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 11, 2022
We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default.
Vanny Yang - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Server Engineer at Cellcard
Apr 12, 2023
There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs.
Claudio Kuenzler - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at Infiniroot
May 30, 2023
The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan.
Prebin Alex - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager IT at Veoneer
Jun 29, 2023
I can't migrate to the newer version.
Joshua Kurian - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technical Architect at StarOne IT Solutions
Oct 9, 2023
One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect.
HD
Automation Engineer at FPT Telecom
Oct 13, 2023
They should improve application visibility along with code visibility.