Rancher Rodeo Zurich 2020

Presentation shown at the Rancher Rodeo 2020 in Zürich, Switzerland

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1. VSHN – The DevOps Company
   Adrian Kosmaczewski, Developer Relations
   Rancher @ VSHN
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2. VSHN – The DevOps Company
   Pronounced ˈvɪʒn – like "vision"
   Founded 2014
   Switzerland’s leading DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes,
   Rancher, OpenShift and 24/7 cloud operations partner
   First Kubernetes Certi ed Provider in
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4. VSHN – The DevOps Company
   42 VSHNeers
   350+ di erent customers partners
   1’500+ servers
   Di erent cloud providers
   On-premises
   88’000+ services
   Some Figures
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5. Howdy!
   Welcome to VSHN Rancher
   Use a Local User
    English 
   Remember
   Username
   e.g. jsmith
   Password
   Log In with OpenLDAP
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   For us: manage as many K8s clusters as possible
   Wherever they are located
   Public cloud
   Private cloud
   Hybrid cloud
   Fast deployment
   Rancher for VSHN
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   Very popular K8s management option for customers
   "We are providers of providers"
   Some of our customers want to provide K8s for their
   customers and themselves
   Rancher for Customers
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   Greatly simpli es management
   Common interface to all clusters
   Built-in monitoring
   User management
   Very easy to use
   Particularly adapted for dev & test clusters
   Customers love GUI
   GUI brings 80-90%…
   …the rest through kubectl apply
   Added Value
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   Hundreds available
   Great added value
   Plugins
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    Scaling clusters in AKS & EKS doesn’t work (for the
    moment)
    Works with Hetzner, Cloudscale, Exoscale
    For AKS / EKS we use Terraform
    Then import the cluster into Rancher separately
    Some Limitations
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    Used in production Preferred to
    Minikube
    Currently under
    evaluation
    Other Rancher Products
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    Used for production
    With pre-provisioned VMs
    With tools like Puppet, etc.
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    8 x Orange Pi WinPlus
    10 X Kingston microSDHC UHS-I with Adapter (16GB,
    Class 10)
    1 x Waveshare Display 7inch HDMI LCD ©, 1024×600,
    IPS
    …
    tobru.ch/kubernetes-on-orangepi-arm64
    github.com/tobru/appuioli-ansible
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    docs.syn.tools
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    Currently in development
    We’re evaluating it as a solution for updates in our
    OpenShift clusters
    Replacing our current Ansible playbooks!
    System Upgrade Controller for
    Kubernetes
    github.com/rancher/system-upgrade-controller
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    Conclusion
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    Adrian Kosmaczewski, Developer Relations:
    VSHN AG – Neugasse 10 – CH-8005 Zürich – +41 44 545 53 00 – –
    Rancher and the cow logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Rancher Labs, Inc. in the
    United States and other countries. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identi cation
    purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holder(s).
    Thanks!
    adrian@vshn.ch
    vshn.ch info@vshn.ch
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