Rancher Labs is the creator of the most widely
adopted Kubernetes management platform and it more than doubled its commercial
revenue and enterprise customer base in 2019. This significant growth
demonstrates an accelerating demand for containers within the enterprise and,
specifically, containerized workloads running on Kubernetes.
The rapid adoption
of Kubernetes has been widely predicted. According to 451 Research, 76% of enterprises worldwide
will standardize on Kubernetes by 2022. Additionally, Rancher Labs' own
industry survey indicates multi-cluster environments
are the norm, hybrid cloud deployments are prevalent, and edge is emerging as
an important use-case.
"The Kubernetes
marketplace saw significant consolidation in 2019 with the acquisitions of
Heptio and Pivotal by VMware, and Red Hat by IBM," said Sheng Liang, CEO of
Rancher Labs. "Understandably, many organizations are concerned by the possible
consequences of this consolidation and are turning to Rancher as the only
vendor-neutral, multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes management platform."
Unique Approach to Managing Kubernetes
Rancher's unique Run
Kubernetes Everywhere strategy is built son three simple tenets:
● Certified Kubernetes Distributions - organizations need to
deploy certified Kubernetes distributions everywhere they need to compute - in
the datacenter, on multiple clouds, and across desktop, branch, and edge
locations. With the Q4'19 GA of K3s, a lightweight and certified Kubernetes
distribution purpose-designed for small footprint workloads, Rancher supports
the industry's broadest range of Kubernetes distributions including RKE, EKS,
AKS, and GKE.
● Central Control & Visibility
- IT operations teams need simple, consistent cluster operations for all
clusters running anywhere, as well as centralized security and policy
management across multi-cluster and multi-cloud environments. In Q4'19, Rancher Labs launched v2.3 of their flagship product, Rancher, which
is already the industry's most widely adopted Kubernetes management platform.
● Streamlined DevOps - any Kubernetes strategy must
make it easy for developers and DevOps teams to build, deploy, and manage
containerized applications at scale.
With the Q4'19 beta release of Rio, a new application
deployment engine for Kubernetes that delivers fully integrated deployment
experiences from operations to pipeline, DevOps teams can leverage an
opinionated application deployment engine that accelerates workload delivery to
any Kubernetes cluster.
Commitment to Open-Source Innovation
Illustrating Rancher Labs commitment to open-source
innovation, in 2019 the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted
Rancher's vendor-neutral container storage solution - Longhorn - as its latest Sandbox project. Longhorn joined 20 other
current projects and was accepted in recognition of the unique value it brings
to the cloud-native ecosystem.
Additionally,
Rancher Labs received a Firestarter Award by 451 Research, awarded to
the company for innovation, enterprise leadership, and its ‘trailblazing work
that made it possible to handle a range of Kubernetes implementations from a
common management platform.'
Gartner Research
also recognized Rancher Labs in 2019, citing the company in two of its
Container Industry reports and five different Gartner Hype Cycle reports.
World-Class Customer Experience
Rancher's customers
include many of the world's largest enterprises. As such, another key factor in
Rancher's continued growth is their commitment to a world-class customer
experience which includes onboarding services, certification programs,
professional and consulting services, and 24/7 support. Rancher's commitment to
their customers is reflected in the company's industry-leading
net-promoter-score of 70.
What Rancher's Customers Are Saying
One of the largest
commercial banks in the Netherlands is standardizing on Kubernetes and Rancher.
Erik van der Meijde, Platform Delivery Manager at de Volksbank comments: "Containers are now at
the heart of our growth and innovation strategy. In order to be competitive, we
need to increase the velocity of development through automation, while
maintaining reliability and security. Rancher represents ‘next level'
containerization that allows us to become more agile and innovative."
Netic is one of a group of companies creating the
first truly national and entirely digital health service in Denmark; making
Rancher an intrinsic part of its deployment plans. Kasper Kay Petersen, Sales
and Marketing Director at Netic comments: "For a hybrid environment, Rancher is
ideal for managing components across on-premise and the cloud. The ongoing
health of the Danish population relies on a healthcare infrastructure that is
‘always on' and completely reliable. As new applications are added to FUT the
volume of patients connecting to the service will quickly expand. Rancher
allows us to scale rapidly, develop and test new services concurrently securely
and in a stable way."