Rancher Labs,
a provider of container management software, today announced support
for all leading Kubernetes services in China. The only enterprise
Kubernetes platform that manages both self-hosted and cloud-hosted
Kubernetes clusters, Rancher has now added support for Huawei Cloud
Container Engine (CCE), Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes
(ACK) and Tencent Kubernetes Engine (TKE).
"Rancher
continues to be the unequivocal choice for enterprises running
containers and Kubernetes in production," said Sheng Liang, CEO and
co-founder of Rancher Labs. "As enterprises continue to adopt Kubernetes
at a global level, it is vital that we continue to expand our support.
We're pleased to be the only Kubernetes management platform to support
cloud-hosted Kubernetes clusters from all of the leading cloud
providers."
Expanded support for Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud
Rancher is
an open source Kubernetes management platform that allows organizations
to deliver Kubernetes-as-a-Service to their employees and centrally
manage all Kubernetes clusters, regardless of how the cluster was
deployed, or where it is running. With Rancher 2.0, the company
introduced the first platform to manage hosted Kubernetes services from
Google (GKE), Amazon (EKS) and Azure (AKS), enforcing consistent
security policies, and providing an intuitive user experience across any
cluster. Now with expanded support, organizations can accelerate the
adoption of Kubernetes in China and deploy applications consistently
anywhere in the world.
This latest product update includes:
- Self-service
provision of Kubernetes clusters in Huawei CCE, Alibaba ACK, and
Tencent TKE. Users can create and upgrade CCE, ACK, and TKE clusters
from Rancher UI and API.
- Integrated
cloud infrastructure management and cluster scaling. Users can
configure CCE, ACK, and TKE clusters, including the number of nodes in
the clusters, from Rancher UI and API.
- Centralized
user authentication across on-premise and CCE, ACK, and TKE clusters.
Enterprise users can sign in to their CCE, ACK, and TKE clusters using
their Active Directory and LDAP credentials.
- Unified
access control policy across all your Kubernetes clusters. Enterprise
IT administrators can configure and enforce consistent access control
policies across CCE, ACK, and TKE clusters.
"Huawei
CCE is the first cloud managed Kubernetes service in China," said Mr.
Liao ZhenQin, Huawei Cloud BU PaaS product department general manager.
"We welcome Rancher users to take advantage of the world-class
Kubernetes support offered by Huawei cloud."
"As
the largest public cloud service provider in China, and one of the
world's top three IaaS providers, Alibaba Cloud is dedicated to
empowering enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation with
cloud native approach and open container technologies," said Mr. YiLi,
director of engineering for Alibaba Cloud Container Technologies. "We
are delighted to support Rancher through Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes
Service (ACK). Available in sixteen regions around the world, we
strongly believe ACK will boost the cloud migration and multi-cloud
management with Kubernetes."
"Born
out of the open source Kubernetes system, Tencent Kubernetes Engine
(TKE) provides container-centric, highly scalable and high-performance
container management services," said Mr. Liang WenJie, Tencent Cloud
PaaS product manager. "Rancher support for Tencent Kubernetes Engines is
very helpful. Rancher users will now be able to leverage the richest
set of features offered by TKE."
The
integration will be available in Rancher 2.2, scheduled to ship in
early 2019. Rancher Labs will demonstrate the integration with Huawei,
Alibaba and Tencent at KubeCon Shanghai in booth P9.