Whether you’ve run into scalability challenges with Rancher’s management server, or find that SUSE’s support is missing the mark, you might be feeling trapped.
Spectro Cloud Palette is the leading Rancher alternative — see how Palette compares versus Rancher for enterprise Kubernetes management.
Palette is natively multicluster, designed to scale to hundreds of thousands of clusters that you can manage consistently, in parallel. For example, you can apply patches and upgrades concurrently for massive time savings.
Our unique decentralized architecture doesn’t rely on management servers — each cluster enforces policy locally. This not only improves resiliency in real-world environments, but means you can add clusters without worrying about management servers becoming a bottleneck.
"We compared Palette to other solutions, like Rancher, and nothing came close. It’s one thing building a cluster, but quite another managing multiple production clusters on an ongoing basis. That’s where Palette excels.”
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Rancher used to have the best support in the industry — but we all know that’s no longer true. At Spectro Cloud we have an A-team of engineering ninjas at your disposal (some are even ex-Rancher), and we’re proud to say our customers love working with us.
We offer the premium 24x7 support you expect, and we even offer Solution Support to cover your full stack, not just the core Kubernetes components.
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Spectro Cloud Palette is a new generation of Kubernetes management platform to meet the needs of today’s enterprises like yours. Put us to the test and see the future for yourself.
Book a demoRancher was primarily designed to build the foundation of a Kubernetes cluster on a one-by-one basis. It has an App Catalog with some Helm charts that you can deploy into your cluster. All good, but it’s thinking too small.
Spectro Cloud Palette lets you build a library of Cluster Profiles, which are blueprints defining the full stack of a Kubernetes cluster, from OS to all the integrations and apps on top. We support more than 50 different integrations, from service mesh to monitoring, AI frameworks and security tools, with version control. You can update, clone and repeatably use these Profiles to build consistent new clusters.
And here’s the magic: that full stack is kept consistent with hourly reconciliation loops, so your clusters never become snowflakes.
Unlike Rancher, the Palette management platform natively supports deployment to single- and multi-node edge environments at scale, with the same management capabilities as in the cloud or data center.
With Palette you can of course provision clusters in all the major cloud hyperscalers, both IaaS and managed K8s services like EKS. We support virtualized data center environments, of course.
But there’s more: with us you can deploy on bare metal servers as easily as in the public cloud. We take care of bootstrapping bare metal servers and managing the OS, so you don’t have to.
Analysts at GigaOm rated us ‘leader’ and ‘outperformer’ on the 2024 Radar Reports for both Kubernetes for Edge Computing, and Managed Kubernetes.
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When you migrate from Rancher management server to Spectro Cloud Palette, you don’t have to start from scratch. We can import and manage Rancher-created clusters. You can continue to use RKE2 and K3s as distributions too when you build new clusters with Palette. We’re not opinionated!
Even if you use Rancher open source instead of its hosted Prime version, the service contracts cost real money — and so does every hour of your team’s time. Spectro Cloud Palette is a commercial product with simple, consumption-based pricing that:
If your Rancher contract is coming up for renewal, put us to the test. We think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Take 30 minutes with one of our experts to see Palette in action and learn why we’re the only management platform built for Kubernetes in production, at scale.
Contact us todayAt Spectro Cloud, we have more than a dozen ex-Rancher employees on our team. They know the inside story, they understand exactly what you're going through — and they can show you exactly what to do about it.
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Set up a call now and you'll also get a very special offer: six months free when you sign up to Palette.
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