Rancher is lit, it is a pretty awesome piece of software!
One thing I would like to see built in (or as a plugin) is improved user access management. Right now it seems that once a user logs in that user has access to everything, with the exception of certain admin features. I would prefer for the admin to determine in a fine-grain detail which features other users or user groups have access to.
Using this approach, Rancher could be used as a PaaS or SaaS. For instance, end users would not need to worry about creating hosts or setting up infrastructure, that would be left up to DevOps. they would simply decide the application they would like to deploy, as determined by the admin, and run it (obviously, that’s when user sign up, billing, usage, etc. comes in). I understand that it currently has third-party access management but I’m not sure how fine grained an access level one could reach through that.
In fact, with the new Catalog feature, the admin could have the ability to even pre-determine which catalog item(s) a certain user role (group) could be allowed to deploy. In essence, a PaaS/SaaS.
Thanks