Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement

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Rancher

Dropping by to express healthy interest in this project. Rancher have a pretty good track record so far: <pre><code> - the Rancher platform itself (https://rancher.com/) is a really powerful and user friendly way to manage container clusters of all sorts, giving you a self-hosted dashboard for both your cloud and on prem clusters, for a variety of Kubernetes distributions; you can even manage the available drivers and also create deployments graphically.

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k3s

- the K3s distribution (https://k3s.io/) is in my eyes one of the best ways to run Kubernetes yourself, both in development environments and production ones. I benchmarked K3s alongside Docker Swarm as a part of my Master's thesis and it was surprising to see that its overhead was actually very close to that of Docker Swarm (a more lightweight orchestrator that's included with Docker and uses the Docker Compose format), only exceeding it by a few hundred MB with similar deployments being active, making K3s passable for small nodes.

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Docker Hub

The problem with this is that if Docker Inc goes under, you can say goodbye to Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/ Sure, there are alternative repositories and for your own needs you can use anything from Sonatype Nexus, JFrog Artifactory, Gitlab Registry or any of the cloud based ones, but Hub disappearing would be a 100 times worse than the left pad incident in the npm world. Thus, whenever Docker Inc releases a new statement about some paid service that may or may not get more money from large corporations, I force myself to be cautiously optimistic, knowing that the community of hackers will pick up the slack and work around those tools on a more personal scale (e.g. Rancher Desktop vs Docker Desktop). That said, it might just be a Stockholm Syndrome of sorts, but can you imagine the fallout if Hub disappeared?

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Longhorn

They've also got Longhorn, a distributed container-attached storage solution that's very simple to understand and easy to deploy. Performance is another thing but that's the same with all of the general networked storage solutions (Ceph included). Rancher's got a well deserved good impression in my mind, though early on I avoided it since it seemed like they were building a walled garden. [0]: https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn.

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CapRover

It's always nice to see Docker Compose and tools that are built around it, same way as with Swarm! Here's a few other that occupy a similar space: <pre><code> - https://caprover.com/.

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