| Tool | Notes |
|---|---|
| Rancher Desktop | Desktop app bundling K3s with containerd or Moby; good for local dev |
| k3d | K3s in Docker — fast throwaway clusters for CI and testing |
| Hauler | Declarative manifests listing images/charts/files; produces a portable store to move across air gaps and serve as a registry |
| Rancher Turtles | Integrates Cluster API; v0.26 moved to CAPI v1.12 / v1beta2 contract |
| Rancher Backup | Operator to back up/restore Rancher's own resources |
| SUSE Observability | Prime-only topology-aware observability (from the StackState acquisition) |
| Kine | etcd-API shim over SQL; used by K3s |
| Spegel | P2P OCI registry mirror embedded in K3s/RKE2 |
| Epinio | App-PaaS ("push code, get app") — check project status before adopting |
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