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Test rancher pros/cons

If we choose to go to kubernetes, we will probably need to to manage several clusters to isolate the concerns. For example, we will need at least a production and staging cluster + some sandbox for the developers and tests.

Rancher is supposed to provide a easy way to centralize the cluster management but it need to be tested to see what it's possible. The firt step is to deploy a basic installation and ply with it but the goal is reply to the following points :

  • pro/cons compared to a manual installation
  • automation capabilities (are there any integration with terraform or puppet ?)
  • operation cost (cost of an upgrade ?)
  • ...

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