By acquiring Rancher Labs, SUSE will gain two footholds in the Kubernetes ecosystem: users and innovation. Rancher’s software is used by 16% of the 1,197 Kubernetes users surveyed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2019. This user base has grown rapidly and appears to be satisfied with Rancher’s technical prowess and support. SUSE’s professional enterprise sales teams are probably chomping at the bit to up-sell managed services and support to users of Rancher Kubernetes and the Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE).
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