2022 A Buyer’s Guide to Enterprise Kubernetes Management Platforms Red Hat OpenShift 4.9, VMware Tanzu 1.4, Google Anthos 1.10 and SUSE Rancher 2.6 A Buyer’s Guide to Enterprise relationships with global enterprises, Red Hat has been successful 1 “The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Development Platforms, Q3 2020” by Dave Bartoletti, Charlie Dai with Lauren Nelson, Duncan Dietz Bill Nagel, Forrester – Download Report 2 "Gartner Forecasts Strong Revenue Growth for Global Container Management Software and Services Through 2024” by Susan Moore, Gartner – View Press Release A

Competitor Analysis: KubeSphere vs. Rancher and OpenShift September 2021 2 Table of Contents Competitor Analysis: KubeSphere vs. Rancher and OpenShift........................................1 I. Overview ......18 3 I. Overview 1.Metrics Comparison 1.1 Features Benchmarking Features KubeSphere OpenShift Rancher Monitoring ※※※※※ ※※※※ ※※※ Logging ※※※※※ ※※※ ※※※ Events ※※※※※ ※※※※ ※※※ Auditing ※※※※※ ※※※※※ ※※ Windows Container ※ ※※※※ ※※※※ 5 Support Commercial Services and Support ※※※※※ ※※※※ ※※※※ 1.2 Metrics Details Product Overview Overview Product name KubeSphere OpenShift Rancher Company

Cloud-Native Contrail Networking is supported on the following: • (Upstream) Kubernetes • Red Hat Openshift • Amazon EKS • Rancher RKE2 Contrail Networking is an SDN solution that automates the creation Networking (CN2) brings this rich SDN feature set natively to Kubernetes as a networking platform and container network interface (CNI) plug-in. Redesigned for cloud-native architectures, CN2 takes advantage Kubernetes offers, from simplified DevOps to turnkey scalability, all built on a highly available platform. These benefits include leveraging standard Kubernetes tools and practices to manage Contrail throughout

................................................................................... 6 1.3.5 Container Management and Scaling ........................................................................ .................................... 9 2.4 How Rancher Extends Kubernetes for User-Friendly Container Management ............14 2.4.1 Infrastructure Visibility .................................. .......................................................................................34 4 Container Operations ....................................................................................

of PowerFlex CSI driver 1.4 for persistent volume, for customers requiring an on-premises container platform solution. This white paper also explains how to protect the above Kubernetes workloads with Kubernetes cluster .............................................................. 13 PowerFlex Container Storage Interface driver ...................................................................... RKE Kubernetes cluster using CSI Driver on DELL EMC PowerFlex White Paper Executive Summary Container technologies enable development teams to quickly provision isolated applications. Customers who

Dev Datacenter Branch Cloud Edge Support & Services Catalog Security Storage Governance The platform for managing all Kubernetes distributions Linux SLE Desktop / POS SLE Server SLES for SAP Applications Datacenter Edge Block Storage Container Security I.a.a.S Copyright © SUSE 2021 5 Source: IDC Drivers and Inhibitors Driver: Public Cloud Adoption “Eventually, container infrastructure software as transformations will become increasingly difficult for remaining apps Inhibitor: Time and Effort to re-platform The evolution to cloud-native may require customers to completely re- invent themselves Inhibitor:

address: Networking, Security, Scheduling, Automation, etc? 6 Why Kubernetes ? Common compute platform across any infrastructure DEV DATA CENTER CLOUD BRANCH 5G / EDGE ✔ Common API & Packaging Recovery ✔ Autoscaling ✔ Service Discovery ✔ Networking ✔ RBAC & Access Control Common compute platform across any infrastructure & a consistent set of infrastructure capabilities Kubernetes architecture teams • Different hardware • Different locations • Edge devices SUSE Rancher - the industry’s only platform to manage all Kubernetes distributions Applications 1 Applications 3 Applications 2 Rancher

Kubernetes services via Docker containers. Configuration is defined by arguments passed to the container at the time of initialization, not via configuration files. Scoring the commands is different in --audit-log-path argument is set as appropriate (Scored) Notes This path is the path inside of the container. It's combined with the RKE cluster.yml extra- binds: option to map the audit log to the host maintain a configuration file for kube-apiserver. All configuration is passed in as arguments at container run time. Result: Pass (Not Applicable) 1.4.2 - Ensure that the API server pod specification file

Kubernetes services via Docker containers. Configuration is defined by arguments passed to the container at the time of initialization, not via configuration files. CIS Benchmark Rancher Self-Assessment maintain a configuration file for the API server. All configuration is passed in as arguments at container run time. 1.1.2 Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root maintain a configuration file for the API server. All configuration is passed in as arguments at container run time. 1.1.3 Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to

Kubernetes services via Docker containers. Configuration is defined by arguments passed to the container at the time of initialization, not via configuration files. CIS 1.5 Benchmark - Self-Assessment maintain a configuration file for the API server. All configuration is passed in as arguments at container run time. 1.1.2 Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root maintain a configuration file for the API server. All configuration is passed in as arguments at container run time. 1.1.3 Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to