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Workiva, a leading provider of enterprise productivity solutions in the United States, has put into use the open source enterprise Kubernetes management platform Rancher. By seamlessly connecting to Rancher, it exponentially reduces the time and effort required to build and deploy containers and Kubernetes services. This article will share the needs and pain points of Workiva, as well as their experiences.

Workiva is the leading cloud provider of connected data, reporting, and compliance solutions in the United States (NYSE: NYSE: WK). Workiva provides an intuitive cloud platform, Wdesk, that helps more than 3000 companies around the world modernize the way they work, including more than 70 percent of the FORTUNE 500 ®companies.

Needs and pain points

Built on the data management engine, Wdesk provides controlled collaboration, data connectivity, detailed permissions, and a complete audit trail, helping to reduce risk, improve productivity, and give users confidence in data-driven decisions. Coordinate and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters through Rancher, so that Wdesk can quickly meet the growing scale needs of customers.

When choosing a container management platform, Workiva needs a reliable solution to manage a large number of their production workloads and requires 100% zero downtime. At the same time, Workiva also needs enterprise solutions with complex, role-based access control functions to meet the complex requirements of governments and regulators. In addition, Workiva wants to reduce the time and effort required by internal development teams to build and deploy new services in Kubernetes.

Solution

"We have been using Docker for nearly 4 years before choosing the container management platform, and we have fully understood the advantages of containerized microservices," said Steven Osborne, senior product development manager at Workiva. "as we migrate the container environment to Kubernetes, we need an industrial orchestration layer. Rancher provides us with the orchestration of deploying micro-service containers to multiple Kubernetes clusters and allows us to view the health of these environments at any time. "

With Rancher, Workiva built a pre-production Kubernetes cluster with role-based access control and single sign-on support within two weeks. After the development team adopted Rancher, Rancher provided a reliable solution for Workiva with the same user-friendly experience as the internal platform previously built to manage the cluster. Rancher also provides enterprise-level role-based access control for multiple users to run Kubernetes in multiple environments, and crucially, Rancher saves development teams time and allows them to focus and accelerate their software development.

Add value to customers and keep moving

Matthew Sullivan, security architect at Workiva, stressed: "it was an easy decision for us to adopt Rancher. Rancher's ability to work with most of the major single sign-on providers is very attractive to us and saves us a lot of errands. I installed Rancher and clicked three buttons to complete the deployment, and the added value brought by Rancher was immediate."

"it is Rancher's goal as always to make it easy for companies like Workiva to manage everything they need to run Kubernetes in production," said Shannon Williams, co-founder of Rancher. "again and again, our solution has been recognized by customers, and it is also the value that customer-recognized Rancher brings to them, driving Rancher to develop better products and move forward."

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