
Comprehensive Value From Platform to Support
Insure your workloads with the Rancher Prime subscription. Get more value from Rancher with enterprise support and additional platform additions strengthen your container strategy with exclusive access to professional services and our rich knowledge base.
Learn more about Support Terms of ServiceSecurity, Policy Management & Compliance
Implement a security-first container strategy with Rancher Prime. Deploy Rancher from our trusted private registry. Minimize misconfigurations across your clusters with access to pre-written Kubewarden policies and get full lifecycle container security through NeuVector Prime.
Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Everywhere
Maintain your cluster’s operational reliability everywhere with Rancher Prime. Run Rancher across any certified Kubernetes distribution and ensure Day 2 cluster operations across any environment across on-premises, multi-cloud or at the edge.
Extensible and Interoperable Platform
Enrich your organization’s Kubernetes through Rancher Prime’s catalog of integrations and new UI extensions framework. Deploy tools from the Rancher app catalog or implement custom, peer-developed or built-in Rancher certified & supported extensions.
Our Rancher Editions
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Rancher
The community’s favorite Kubernetes management platform — free forever
- 100% Open Source
- Full Rancher Platform Experience
- Community Support
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Prime
Get the same Rancher platform experience with added value from Rancher Prime
- 100% Open Source
- Full Rancher Platform Experience
- Enterprise Support
- Access to Professional Services including Go-Live
- Deploy from trusted private container registry
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Prime Hosted
The premium white-glove service for managing Rancher Prime
- 100% Open Source
- Full Rancher Platform Experience
- Enterprise Support with expert-managed Rancher Prime control plane
- Deploy from trusted private container registry
- Expert-managed Rancher Prime control plane
Rancher Prime Capabilities
A comprehensive cloud native platform designed to simplify the management, deployment and operations of Kubernetes.

Simplified Cloud Native Infrastructure
Ensure business continuity and optimize infrastructure workflows with the Rancher Prime platform. Unify virtualized workloads with containers, navigate storage, deploy CI/CD workflows and OS management from a single platform.

Fortified Security and Observability
Strengthen your container security with Rancher Prime. Get full lifecycle security capabilities, advanced policy management and AIOps across insights and observability metrics from the platform.

Streamlined Application Development
Boost developer productivity and simplify application workflows with Rancher Prime. Enable local development and testing while enhancing collaboration between operators and developers.

Kubernetes Distributions
Run Rancher Prime on our certified and supported Kubernetes distributions built by the Rancher by SUSE team.
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