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Rancher Desktop

Rancher Desktop is an open-source desktop application that provides Kubernetes and container management on your local machine.

  • virtiofs as Mount type for better FS performance
  • VZ as Virtual Machine Type with Rosetta enabled to run x86_64 images

Use cases​

  • Local development and testing of Kubernetes clusters
  • Managing containerized applications on a desktop environment
  • Simplifying the setup of Kubernetes for developers