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Rancher Prime is an enterprise computing platform for running Kubernetes on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. It addresses the operational and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters anywhere. Rancher Prime also provides IT operators and development teams with integrated tools for building, deploying, and running cloud-native workloads.
Rancher Prime deploys production-grade Kubernetes clusters from the data center to cloud and edge, and it unites them with centralized authentication, access control, and observability. Rancher Prime lets you streamline cluster deployment on bare metal, edge devices, private clouds, public clouds, and vSphere, and it secures the clusters by using global security policies. You can use Helm or the Rancher Prime catalog to deploy and manage applications across all these environments, ensuring multicluster consistency with a single deployment.
The following figure shows the Rancher architecture. For more details, see the Rancher Prime Technical Architecture Guide.