TL;DR:
Rancher used only to deploy clusters or also as orchestration mechanism which uses k8s at the backend? Rancher+K8S Worth anything if we work with Rancher API/UI?
Hey all.
My team and I are looking for a good containers orchestration solution and we are very interested in Rancher.
We set up a k8s cluster with rancher and we started to play.
After 2 months of playing with Rancher, yet we don’t know if the developers teams should work with rancher API or with K8S?
It looks like any job done with Rancher, doesnt really effect K8S. for example, if we create container with Rancher, kubectl commands show that k8s isn’t really familiar with these containers. stacks is 100% Rancher thing and K8S doesn’t understands stack.
My question is:
Why should i work with Rancher over K8S cluster through Rancher API/UI? Is that how I should work with K8S+Rancher? Or Rancher should be used only to Deploy&Update K8S clusters and all the Developers work should be only through K8S.
Because when we worked through Rancher API/UI, it felt like it aimed 100% for cattle and has a little touch wik K8S abilities.
Thank you all and sorry for digging, im really tired of trying to get the idea of it.