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SUSE Rancher is a complete cluster and container management platform that resides on Kubernetes itself. The following figure shows the key functions of SUSE Rancher:
SUSE Rancher supports the management of certified Kubernetes distributions, such as:
For the public cloud, the following services are supported:
SUSE Rancher provides simple, consistent cluster operations including provisioning and templates, configuration, and life-cycle version management, along with visibility and diagnostics.
SUSE Rancher incorporates and uses various single sign-on services to automate processes and apply a consistent set of user access and security policies for all the managed clusters, no matter where they are running.
SUSE Rancher includes audit and security guideline enforcement, monitoring, and logging functions, along with user, network, and workload policies distributed across all managed clusters.
SUSE Rancher also provides a rich catalog of services for building, deploying, and scaling containerized applications, including application packaging, CI and CD, logging, monitoring, and service mesh.
The following sections of this chapter describe the recommended component layering approach for the deployment of SUSE Rancher on a Kubernetes platform.