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On October 9, 2019, Rancher Labs (hereinafter referred to as Rancher), a leading provider of container management software, officially released Rancher 2.3 GA. This version is by far the most important version update for Rancher Labs. Rancher 2.3 is the industry's first GA Kubernetes management platform that supports Windows containers, formally integrates Istio, and introduces an innovative "cluster template" function to enhance the security of enterprise clusters. These new functions will undoubtedly greatly help enterprises to make full use of the transformative power of Kubernetes, and provide a more convenient way for enterprises to land Kubernetes in production, thus further realizing the concept and strategy of "Run Kubernetes Everywhere" of Rancher.

"Gartner predicts that by 2022, more than 75 percent of global organizations will run containerized workloads in production," said Liang Sheng, co-founder and CEO of Rancher Labs. "Rancher 2.3 extends our market leadership by introducing the benefits of Kubernetes into Windows applications and providing enterprises with global control and visibility into containers running anywhere (data centers, clouds, edge scenarios, etc.)."

The first GA Kubernetes management platform that supports Windows containers

Today, 70% of local workloads are running on the Windows Server operating system, so support for Windows containers has been one of the most needed technologies in the Kubernetes ecosystem in recent years.

"in March this year, Microsoft announced that the Windows Server container in Kubernetes 1.14 was ready for production, which was an important step in enabling developers and operators to containerize Windows Server-based applications." Taylor Brown, PM manager of Microsoft Container platform, said, "We are working closely with a number of partners, including Rancher. Rancher 2.3 is one of the first solutions on the market to manage Windows Server-based containers, which allows Windows developers to further benefit from the advantages of Kubernetes and its powerful and diverse ecosystem."

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Introducing all the advantages of Kubernetes to Windows,Rancher 2.3 greatly reduces the complexity of enterprises using Windows containers and provides a quick way to modernize Windows-based legacy applications, whether they run locally or in a multi-cloud environment. In addition, Rancher 2.3 can containerize them and transform them into efficient, secure, and portable multi-cloud applications, eliminating the need to rewrite applications.

Formal integration of Istio

Rancher has a rich and powerful ecosystem of Kubernetes services, including Service Grid (Service Mesh). Istio, as the industry's leading service grid, allows developers to enable key features of Kubernetes without writing specific code, including fault tolerance, canary publishing, A / B testing, monitoring and metrics, tracking and observability, and authentication and authorization. Rancher 2.3 officially completed the integration of Istio, greatly simplifying the installation and configuration of Istio, and now has built-in support in Rancher:

Kiali dashboard for flow and telemetry visualization

Jaeger for tracking

Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and observability

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Rancher 2.3 also officially supports Kubernetes v1.15.x and Docker 19.03.

"Standardization on Kubernetes is a major trend of global enterprise IT, and nowadays, as more and more old Windows-based workloads are constantly updated and modernized, a container management platform that supports Windows and professional mature Kubernetes is very important and key to the cloud and digital transformation of enterprise IT." Sriram Subramanian, director of research at IDC, said, "Rancher has demonstrated their advanced vision and correct ideas with forward-looking and innovative products; Rancher has truly fulfilled its mission of enabling users to run Kubernetes anywhere, and we have also seen that Rancher helps customers achieve portability and interoperability of workloads across heterogeneous environments."

Enhance Kubernetes security

Because most enterprises need to manage multiple clusters at the same time, security is a top priority for all enterprises. Therefore, Rancher 2.3 introduces the innovative "cluster template" function. It enables enterprises to implement consistent cluster configurations throughout the infrastructure, which in turn helps enterprises reduce security risks. Specifically, by using the cluster template:

Operators can create, save, and safely use well-tested Kubernetes configurations in all their cluster deployments.

Administrators can enable configuration enforcement to suppress configuration drift or improper configuration errors. If you create more clusters, these misconfigurations may pose security risks.

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The fastest-growing and best-performing company growth report

In August 2019, Rancher released a quick report for the first half of 2019, with revenue up 161 per cent and the number of customers up 52 per cent year-on-year in the first half of 2019. Rancher software downloads have already exceeded 100 million, with more than 40000 enterprise deployments worldwide and more than 11000 Star on GitHub. Rancher is undoubtedly the most widely used Kubernetes management platform in the industry.

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In addition, Rancher has also been recognized by many international authoritative technical research and consulting organizations, including:

In Forrester New Wave's Enterprise Container platform report, Rancher was rated as the "outstanding leader" in the first quadrant

At the same time, he was selected into 5 Gartner technology maturity curve reports and was rated as "representative manufacturer".

Recognized as "Firestarter" by 451 Research in the third quarter of 1919

Over the past year, Rancher has also achieved rapid growth in Greater China, with business growth of 300%. So far, China has 16700 enterprise deployments and more than 120 paying corporate customers. At the same time, Rancher is the only enterprise-level open source Kubernetes management platform that has partnered with all the leading cloud providers in China (Aliyun, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Baidu Intelligent Cloud, Ping an Cloud, etc.) to support its hosted Kubernetes cluster.

"We are more confident than ever that Kubernetes will become the basic platform for enterprise applications, and Rancher will help enterprises make Kubernetes a reality." Qin Xiaokang, general manager of Rancher Greater China, said, "Rancher hopes to become the de facto standard in the field of container hybrid cloud, helping enterprises to transform digitally."

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