Sadly as usual it leads to "synergy" and therefore layoffs.. I think every move in this direction at SUSE led to layoffs in the past and I hope that's not the case now, specially in the middle of a Pandemic.
I have grown to dislike Rancher more and more. Their marketing statements vary from "could be" to outright lies. I hope their "marketing" department will get some of the SUSE culture (and lawyers that will keep them in check).
I gave it a brief try a few times along with CoreOS for setting up dedicated container hosts. Only got a few hours in before I decided it was going to be a lot less hassle to just go with a normal Ubuntu Server install with Docker sitting on top of it.
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Make sure you backup the rancher instance, or you won't be able to recover the cluster if something goes wrong.
Built in monitoring doesn't work very well on all hardware.
Mostly it's great, though.
If you can get away with just Docker, don't use Kubernetes.
If you can get away with just Docker, don't use Kubernetes.
Seriously.