i’ve been using rancher 1.6 (mainly cattle orchestration) for local/remote development environment with docker under the hood. i know rancher 2.0 will be focusing with kurbenetes i’m still getting in the workarounds with kurbenetes though, i just want to know if rancher 1.6 wont be left behind in the development stage.
will the development of rancher 1.6 continue in the next coming years?
will rancher 1.6 have a major update? (hopefully)
should i move from rancher 1.6 to rancher 2.0? or stay with rancher 1.6?
is there a integration rancher-nfs with rancher 2.0 or equivalent?
My understanding is that Rancher 1.6 will be EOL’ed after 12 months or so. Personally, I would much prefer if it continued.
While K8s and Rancher 2 is great, and very powerful for large scale deployments, Rancher 1.6/Cattle, with its built-in Load Balancer, etc. is IMO just right for a 3-7 server cluster. Simple, reliable and self-contained.
As we’ve covered elsewhere, we will continue to support 1.6 with critical issue and security release until 4/2020, which is still a year and a half away. There will not be any more major features or enhancements from us. Beyond that, everything is still open-source so the community could conceivably continue to support it forever.
Kubernetes has clearly been the way the market is going for a while now; 1.x is not a great experience for k8s users and 2.0 was built to address that.
We (including specifically @ibuildthecloud and I) are still working on ways to expose a simpler, more opinionated experience to using containers with github.com/rancher/rio . It is in some ways more like 1.x/vanilla Docker UX, but powered by k8s under the hood.
I’m certainly not going to promise anything when you’re talking a year out, but one might infer something from me saying “specifically [Darren] and I” are working on it when we are the leads for backend and frontend design…
