Rancher Prime

Name: Rancher Prime
Brand: SUSE

Leveraging SUSE's rich 30-year history of innovation, the Rancher Prime platform delivers stress-free infrastructure to securely deploy, run, and manage modern workloads anywhere.

Rancher Prime offers centralized authentication, access control, observability, and built-in security across your entire stack.

Available on the cloud

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Enterprise Container Management

Modernize your enterprise with open cloud-native infrastructure

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Empower all skill levels to solve problems not infrastructure

Ensure business continuity with Rancher Prime’s unified platform. Streamline operations with container management, optimized storage, seamless CI/CD, and comprehensive OS management—granular control all from a single interface.

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Secure and observe the whole stack

Strengthen your container security with Rancher Prime. Get full lifecycle security capabilities, advanced policy management and insights and observability metrics from the platform.

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Going the extra step to make cotidian ops easier

Accelerate development with the Rancher Prime platform, partners, and customer services. Simplify workflows and testing, enhance collaboration, and drive innovation for faster time-to-market.

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Curated Application Delivery

Enable secure, self-service open source and streamline app delivery with the Rancher Prime Application Collection. A secure (SLSA 3), OCI-compliant, distribution platform offering minimal, trusted artifacts with signatures and SBOMs, to ensure reliable deployments, empowering development teams to innovate.

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Rancher Prime

Experience the SUSE enterprise platform

SLSA certification
Consistent release cycles
Enterprise lifecycle
Platform extensibility
Curated App Collection
Priority access

Rancher Prime Hosted

Fully-managed service to save more time

Full Rancher Platform Experience
Enterprise Support with expert-managed Rancher Prime control plane
Deploy from trusted private container registry
Expert-managed Rancher Prime control plane

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Full features of Rancher ECM platform
Community training
100% open-sourced code base & zero lock-in
4 month release cycle, aligning to upstream Kubernetes
18-month enterprise lifecycle with proactive support
Trusted Delivery w/ 24x7x365 Product Support & Professional Services
Delivery from a Trusted Rancher Hosted Container Registry
SLA coverage across Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher & certified integrations
Service continuity, troubleshooting & root cause analysis
Professional services team
Assigned CSM to aid with onboarding & deployment*
Target response time as little as SEV-1 cases*
Dedicated Slack channel with support team*
Security, Policy Management & Compliance
Built-in Rules for Policy Management with Kubewarden
SLSA certification and sharable SBOM
Application Collection for curated application delivery of common apps with minimal, hardened images with signatures and SBOMs
OCI Prime Registry containing signed and trusted artifacts for Rancher Prime
UI Extensions
Integration options with SUSE’s entire portfolio of cloud-native technologies
Easy integration with 3rd-party open source technologies
Neuvector UI Integration and a new security dashboard
General availability of Cluster API and new Cluster Classes
Rancher Extensibility & Ecosystem
Rancher Platform UI Extensions Framework
Certified & Supported Rancher UI Extensions
Certified & Supported Rancher Projects (Elemental, Kubewarden)*
Rancher Knowledgebase: Onboarding, Training & Enablement
Basic Documentation & Training
On-Demand White Glove Getting-Started Guide
Operating at Scale Documentation & Reference Architectures
Day 2 Support & Support Posture Assessment
AI Assistant
SUSE Collective & Collaboration
Invitation to Customer Advisory Boards
Drive Rancher Product Roadmap
Direct access to our teams to influence product direction
Rancher Prime AI Assistant
Early access to new features
Rancher for the Edge
OS Management with Elemental
x86 Architecture
Accelerated Time to Value
Rancher Enterprise - a single subscription to the entire Rancher Prime portfolio
Start with day 2 operations
Lowered Total Cost of Ownership
Scale on Demand

*Available as a separate add-on. Subject to additional fees.

Rancher Prime is recognised by G2 as an Enterprise Leader and High Performer.

Rancher: Leading Open-Source Kubernetes

Creators of robust solutions like K3s, RKE2, Harvester, Longhorn and more.

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Rancher Prime Highlights

100% Open, Secure, Interoperable Enterprise Container Management anywhere

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Enterprise Lifecycle Management

Align your infrastructure with the latest Kubernetes advancements through consistent four-month release cycles, backed by eighteen months of support, ensuring long-term stability and performance.

Secure Supply Chain Management

Strengthen your enterprise's security with on-demand SLSA and comprehensive SBOMs, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Base Container Images, ensuring transparency and integrity in your software supply chain.

Customize with Open Source Interoperability and UI Extensions

Integration with the entire SUSE secure, open cloud native portfolio, including tooling that enables self-service and integrated Neuvector Prime Extension providing best-in-class threat detection and security.

Extend your Prime platform with Integrated Solutions at Enterprise Scale

Boost Rancher Prime with NeuVector Prime, Prime Priority, Application Collection, and much more. Our AI Assistant (EA) offers intelligent support, streamlining operations and enhancing decision-making.