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title: " Adding Support for Kubernetes in Rancher "
date: 2016-04-08
slug: adding-support-for-kubernetes-in-rancher
url: /blog/2016/04/Adding-Support-For-Kubernetes-In-Rancher
author: >
Darren Shepherd (Rancher Labs)
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Over the last year, we’ve seen a tremendous increase in the number of companies looking to leverage containers in their software development and IT organizations. To achieve this, organizations have been looking at how to build a centralized container management capability that will make it simple for users to get access to containers, while centralizing visibility and control with the IT organization. In 2014 we started the open-source Rancher project to address this by building a management platform for containers.
Recently we shipped Rancher v1.0. With this latest release, [Rancher](http://www.rancher.com/), an open-source software platform for managing containers, now supports Kubernetes as a container orchestration framework when creating environments. Now, launching a Kubernetes environment with Rancher is fully automated, delivering a functioning cluster in just 5-10 minutes.
We created Rancher to provide organizations with a complete management platform for containers. As part of that, we’ve always supported deploying Docker environments natively using the Docker API and Docker Compose. Since its inception, we’ve been impressed with the operational maturity of Kubernetes, and with this release, we’re making it possible to deploy a variety of container orchestration and scheduling frameworks within the same management platform.
Adding Kubernetes gives users access to one of the fastest growing platforms for deploying and managing containers in production. We’ll provide first-class Kubernetes support in Rancher going forward and continue to support native Docker deployments.
**Bringing Kubernetes to Rancher**
