Introduction to Rancher Desktop
summary
Rancher Desktop is an open‑source replacement for Docker Desktop that runs k3s on Windows, macOS or Linux, integrates with WSL, and ships Helm, kubectl and Skaffold so local workflows match production. It lets teams switch Kubernetes versions in 10–20s (it downloads ~200 MB per version), choose runtime (Moby/Docker or containerd), and exposes a built-in Traefik load balancer plus a GUI dashboard. Demos show Helm + Skaffold hot‑reload, pushing local images to remote clusters, and that the tool reliably works for developer parity.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:51What is SUSE and Rancher
- 10:34Kubernetes on the desktop
- 17:17Why Rancher Desktop was created
- 23:21Developer challenges with Kubernetes
- 26:55Rancher Desktop demo begins
- 36:09Developer workflows with Rancher Desktop
- 47:40Resources and closing
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