How To Install and Use Rancher to Manage your Docker Applications on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04

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Ranvir Singh
May 17, 2018

In this guide, we shall be installing Rancher across Ubuntu 18.04 LTS servers. Rancher is a Docker management utility. It is built on top Docker itself, meaning that there’s a docker container inside which Rancher runs. But there’s more to it than just that. Rancher can manage your containers not on just one node but across multiple nodes thanks to its excellent support for Kubernetes.

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Ranvir Singh

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