Rancher is an open source project that provides a complete platform for operating Docker in production. It provides infrastructure services such as multi-host networking, global and local load balancing, and volume snapshots. It integrates native Docker management capabilities such as Docker Machine and Docker Swarm. It offers a rich user experience that enables devops admins to operate Docker in production at large scale.
- Beta & Stable - v1.5.3 -
rancher/server:stableandrancher/server:latest- Read the full release notes.
To get automated notifications of our latest release, you can watch the announcements category in our forums.
Rancher is deployed as a set of Docker containers. Running Rancher is as simple as launching two containers. One container as the management server and another container on a node as an agent. You can install the containers in following approaches.
- Supported Docker version
- Any modern Linux distribution with a supported Docker version. (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS 7 are more heavily tested.) Rancher also works with RancherOS.
- RAM: 1GB+
docker run -d --restart=unless-stopped -p 8080:8080 rancher/server
The UI and API are available on the exposed port 8080.
To learn more about using Rancher, please refer to our Rancher Documentation.
This repo is a meta-repo used for packaging. The source code for Rancher is in other repos in the rancher organization. The majority of the code is in https://github.com/rancher/cattle.
If you need any help with Rancher or RancherOS, please join us at either our Rancher forums, #rancher IRC channel or Slack where most of our team hangs out at.
Please submit any Rancher bugs, issues, and feature requests to rancher/rancher.
Please submit any RancherOS bugs, issues, and feature requests to rancher/os.
For security issues, please email security@rancher.com instead of posting a public issue in GitHub. You may (but are not required to) use the GPG key located on Keybase.
Copyright (c) 2014-2016 Rancher Labs, Inc., portions Copyright © 2017 Rancher Labs, Inc. and HNA Ecological Technology Group Co., Ltd. See copyright details.
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