A Buyer’s Guide to Enterprise Kubernetes Management Platforms

Despite massive adoption of Kubernetes, relying on upstream Kubernetes often isn’t enough for teams deploying Kubernetes into production. Vanilla Kubernetes installations are plagued by a lack of central visibility, inconsistent security practices and complex management processes. Therefore, Kubernetes management platforms are adopted by enterprises to deliver consistent cluster operations, security policy & user management, and shared tools & services. 

In this whitepaper, Rancher Labs used these categories to evaluate the four leading Kubernetes Management Platforms:

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5 
• VMware Tanzu 1.0 
• Google Anthos 1.4 
• and Rancher 2.5