VSHN – The DevOps Company
Adrian Kosmaczewski, Developer Relations
Rancher @ VSHN
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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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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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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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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 – –
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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!
[email protected]
vshn.ch [email protected]
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