Rancher Desktop, A New Dev Tool
Docker has been a significant development tool for me for some time. The ease of spinning up a clean, standalone development environment for applications is a great benefit. The ability to switch seamlessly between different versions is a big benefit when testing. Another benefit is the ability to create demo environments for conference sessions and share them via GitHub for others to easily deploy samples.
But when Docker announced new licensing terms last year, it shook up the desktop development landscape. Rancher, who have a long history of expertise with Kubernetes, stepped into the desktop game by announcing Rancher Desktop. I was aware of the open source project last year, but when Daniel Nashed pointed out to me that 1.0 had recently been released, I decided it was time to give it a try.