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Azure Container Instances vs. SUSE Rancher

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Container Instances
Score 5.9 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Container Instances allows developers to focus on building apps without managing virtual machines or having to learn new tools—it's just the application, in a container, running in the cloud.
$0.01
Per GB Per Hour
SUSE Rancher
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Developed by Rancher Labs and now from SUSE, Rancher is open-source software that enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes at scale, on any infrastructure across the data center, cloud, branch offices, and the network edge. Rancher centrally manages Kubernetes clusters across the organization in order to ensure security and accelerate transformation. Rancher is also available hosted. Hosted Rancher is a fully managed Rancher control plane - presented as the fastest, most cost…
$7,594.99
per year up to 500 nodes
Pricing
Azure Container InstancesSUSE Rancher
Editions & Modules
Memory
$0.00533
Per GB Per Hour
vCPU
$0.04860
Per vCPU
Subscription license
7,594.99
per year up to 500 nodes
Standard Subscription
11,234.99
per year 10 nodes
Priority Subscription
30,514.99
per year 10 nodes
Management Server Priority Subscription
41,830.99
per year 1 instance
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Container InstancesSUSE Rancher
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details——
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Community Pulse
Azure Container InstancesSUSE Rancher
Considered Both Products
Azure Container Instances

No answer on this topic

SUSE Rancher
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SUSE Rancher
SUSE Rancher is an excellent choice for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, especially when catering to different teams with distinct access rights and requirements. It allows us to deploy these clusters on-premises across various sites or in the cloud. However, if you’re …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SUSE Rancher
We started using SUSE Rancher in the early days and spent a large amount of time getting to know and love it. This was before the days of some of the likes of Amazon Web Services who may now provide a cheaper but less feature-rich alternative to SUSE Rancher, however we have …
Szymon Madej | TrustRadius Reviewer
Szymon Madej
DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices
Chose SUSE Rancher
That is the one of the greatest values of Rancher. You can choose to add new features and functionalities to your environment by implementing other projects from SUSE, but you not forced to. You can use Longhorn as Persistent Storage, but you can use any other i.e. VMware CSI, …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SUSE Rancher
While Tanzu has a deeper integration in an existing VMWare cluster, we decided for SUSE Rancher because of a more open approach.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SUSE Rancher
SUSE Rancher has the most complete Kubernetes GUI.
Marcello Teodori | TrustRadius Reviewer
Marcello Teodori
Senior Manager
Chose SUSE Rancher
As we use only AWS EKS Clusters originally we were using the AWS Console and CLI but that is too limited in scope. Also, we were using AWS IAM roles to provide access to users but that was lots of extra work to have them integrated into SSO while on Rancher we have just …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SUSE Rancher
I find SUSE Rancher easier to use and configure with the features I want to really use. I'm finding more people in the community to help in getting support for the product. The other competitors seem to lock you too much into their own ecosystems and keep many needed details …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SUSE Rancher
SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE Manager and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SUSE Rancher
lens installs locally and needs access (network) to the kube_api of the clusters. With Rancher, you need access to the rancher front end (UI / 443), and your clusters Kube API does not need to be exposed (even over a VPN or whitelisted ips). For security reasons, the rancher …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SUSE Rancher
We were looking for an open-source solution for simply deploying and managing K8s on bare metal in both big and small environments. SUSE Rancher was the easiest to install. Rancher Kubernetes Engine (2) and K3s will give you just a plain simple Kubernetes environment. The …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SUSE Rancher
SUSE Rancher has a great GUI, and seems to be a little bit mor open than the competitors.
Features
Azure Container InstancesSUSE Rancher
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Azure Container Instances
-
Ratings
SUSE Rancher
7.5
Ratings
3% below category average
Security and Isolation00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Container Orchestration00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Cluster Management00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Storage Management00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Discovery Tools00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure Container InstancesSUSE Rancher
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.8
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Container InstancesSUSE Rancher
Likelihood to Recommend
No answers on this topic
SUSE Rancher as a management tool becomes useful on a larger scale. Small deployments not so much. If someone also requires Kubernetes capacity or storage, Rancher is an excellent choice. Also, without Kubernetes' skills, it is unlikely that Rancher deployment is going to be a success. Then again if someone else is managing your Kubernetes capacity, setting up the software's capacity will yield greater control. Rancher is not a very integrated solution similar to others in the market.
Kim Aaltonen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kim Aaltonen
Managing Director
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Pros
No answers on this topic
  • Public and private cloud infrastructure providers based on K8s CAPI
  • REST API that can be used to integrate company services with Rancher
  • GUI that is easy to learn and use in daily operations
  • Builtin GitOps automation solution based on Fleet project
  • It is fully open source
Szymon Madej | TrustRadius Reviewer
Szymon Madej
DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices
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Cons
No answers on this topic
  • No possibility to snapshot Projects. You can snapshot and restore the whole Kubernetes cluster, but not a Project or Namespace. For this, you have to use external tools.
  • You cannot detach the Rancher-created Kubernetes clusters from Rancher management.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
No answers on this topic
Overall it deserves an 8 out of 10. The platform is very easy to use as long as the UI is stable. We have had a few buggy versions in the past. However the CLI is excellent and the platform is simple to manage and maintain. It is easy to deploy and offer for company wide use which increases utilization and ROI.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
The documentation is quite complete and there is a very active community that is willing to collaborate and answer questions for those who are just starting out.
Jose Manuel Ortega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jose Manuel Ortega
Software Engineer
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Alternatives Considered
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SUSE Rancher is an excellent choice for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, especially when catering to different teams with distinct access rights and requirements. It allows us to deploy these clusters on-premises across various sites or in the cloud. However, if you’re dealing with only one or a few Kubernetes clusters, using SUSE Rancher might introduce unnecessary complexity. This is where EKS wins, as its native cloud based abilities are better suited to scale, support higher complexity and larger demand.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
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  • Shortens "Time-to-Market" factor for new business applications or implementing new functionalities. From 1 to 50 microservices-based business applications in 6 years.
  • 24/7 availability, generates more money. There are many infrastructure components that are regularly powered-off for maintenance or upgrade, bur we rarely are turning off our downstream Kubernetes clusters where our business applications lives.
  • Single Point of Contact with platform maintenance and development Team, eases implementation of new business applications
Szymon Madej | TrustRadius Reviewer
Szymon Madej
DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices
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