Rancher Desktop
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FEATURE 1: Local Kubernetes cluster
Rancher Desktop uses Lima. This VM runs everything :
- k3s with containerd → Kubernetes version can be selected to match prod!
- Traefik, for the ingress
FEATURE 2: GUI
Out of the box.
(Minikube does not provides this out of the box)
FEATURE 3: Manage container images (build,...)
Since Rancher can replace Docker, Kim (Kubernetes Image Manager) can be used in order to build and manage container images, evenif Kim is still a bit green.
Note: in order to build container images inside Kubernetes, Kim is gread in dev... but Kaniko is preferable for prod.