Rancher Prime
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.
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Enterprise Container Management
Modernize your enterprise with open cloud-native 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.
Strengthen your container security with Rancher Prime. Get full lifecycle security , advanced policy management, insights and observability metrics from the platform.
Accelerate development with Rancher Prime, our partners, and customer services. Simplify workflows and testing, enhance collaboration,and drive innovation for faster time-to-market.
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
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- Full Rancher Platform Experience
- Community Support
Rancher Prime
Experience the SUSE enterprise platform
- Up to 5 years of LTS Core support
- Observability
- SLSA certification
- Consistent release cycles
- Platform extensibility
- Curated App Collection
- Priority access
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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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Rancher Prime enables enterprises to extract more value from Rancher. Get access to 24x7 world-class support, training and professional services plus more from a Rancher Prime subscription. To learn more, get in touch via the form below:
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Detailed Comparison
| Full Featured Multi Cluster Management |
Rancher |
Rancher Prime |
Rancher Prime Hosted |
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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 | |||
| Up to 2 years enterprise lifecycle with proactive support | |||
| Up to 5 years enterprise lifecycle with proactive support for K3s and RKE2 | |||
| 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 | |||
SUSE recognized as Leader by Gartner®
SUSE named a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant, setting the standard in container management.
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Rancher Prime is recognised by G2 as an Enterprise Leader and High Performer.
Rancher Prime Highlights
100% Open, Secure, Interoperable Enterprise Container Management anywhere. It’s about choice, Integrate with almost everything out there, batteries included but optional
Enterprise Reassurance for Years
Align your infrastructure with the latest Kubernetes advancements through consistent four-month release cycles, backed by up to 5 years support for LTS Core 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.
Extensible platform with rich ecosystem
Boost Rancher Prime with Long Term Support, Observability, Container Security, Prime Priority, Application Collection, and much more. Our AI Assistant (EA) offers intelligent support, streamlining operations and enhancing decision-making.
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Consulting
Your modernization journey is as unique as your business. We work with you and your team to identify starting points, design solutions, implement best practices, and optimize for continual success.
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Training Services
If skills are inhibiting your transformation, SUSE Training is your answer. Our comprehensive portfolio of courses and certification paths provide the training that fits your needs, your schedule, and your business.
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Support Services
Extend your SUSE support with direct, named access to a resource who knows you, your team, and your infrastructure. Keep up with the pace of change and customer expectations, while still taking care of everyday business.
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