The Best of Both Worlds: Managing AKS, EKS, & GKE with Rancher
By Behrouz Hassanbeygi
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The Best of Both Worlds: Managing AKS, EKS, & GKE with Rancher
Aug. 11, 2025
/By Behrouz Hassanbeygi
Why not just use the "easy button" and go with a managed Kubernetes service like Amazon EKS, Google GKE, or Azure AKS? The cloud providers promise to handle the complexity for you. So, how does a self-hosted platform like Rancher stack up against the cloud giants?
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Rancher RKE2 or Vanilla Kubernetes? What We Learned Building Both
July 21, 2025
/By Behrouz Hassanbeygi
When it came time to build a secure, production-ready Kubernetes environment, we put Rancher RKE2 (with Rancher Manager) head-to-head against vanilla Kubernetes in a hands-on PoC. From cluster setup and authentication to monitoring, upgrades, and disaster recovery, we documented it all. The results? Rancher cut our operational effort in half while delivering baked-in security and lifecycle management.
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OpenShift: Secure OpenShift with Kube-bench and Falco
Nov. 25, 2021
/By Brandon Tsai
kube-bench is a Go application that can verify if an Openshift cluster is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
Falco can be used for Openshift runtime security.
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OpenShift: Route & Deployment Strategies
Nov. 25, 2021
/By Brandon Tsai
OpenShift already provides a default built-in solution similar to Kubernetes Ingress for the external traffic called `Route`. The developers can use `Route` to expose a service directly without any complicated setup. The article will discuss how to use the OpenShift route and the related deployment strategies.
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Enhance Kubernetes cluster with NetworkPolicy
Aug. 31, 2021
/By Brandon Tsai
In Kubernetes, all Pods are accessible from other Pods and network endpoints by default. To isolate and restrict traffic to pods in the cluster, we can install Calico and create `NetworkPolicy` objects to indicate the allowed incoming connections.
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OpenShift Concept and CodeReady Installation
March 7, 2021
/By Brandon Tsai
Although Kubernetes has became the most widely used orchestration platform nowadays, there is still a huge lack of enterprise solutions for the large-scale companies which care the security and durability much more than portability and flexibility. That is where Red Hat OpenShift comes in.
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