SUSE published Open application rancher Desktop 0.6.0 providing a graphical interface to create, start and control containers based on the Kubernets platform. The program is written in JavaScript using the Electron platform and extends under the Apache 2.0 license. Initially, Rancher Desktop was supplied only for MacOS and Windows, but in the release of 0.6.0 implemented experimental support for Linux. To install, ready-made packages in DEB and RPM formats are proposed. Another important improvement was the support of the CONTAINERD namespace, which was separated from the space of the name Kubernets.
In its destination Rancher Desktop is close to the proprietary product Docker Desktop and differs mainly using the CLI interface Nerdctl and Runtime Containerd to create and run containers, but in the future Rancher Desktop plan to add support for Docker CLI and Moby . Rancher Desktop makes it possible on its workstation through a simple graphical interface to test the developed containers and applications designed to work in containers before deploying them in working systems.
Rancher Desktop allows you to select a specific version of KUBERNETES to use, test the operation of your containers with various versions of Kubernets, instantly run containers without registering in KUBERNETES services, collect, get and place images of containers and deploy a developed application in a container on a local system (Network ports Container-related available only with LocalHost).