https://falcao.org/tags/on-premise/Recent content in On-Premise on Danilo Falcão da SilvaHugoen-usTue, 19 May 2026 12:30:00 -0300https://falcao.org/posts/rke2-on-prem-kubernetes/Tue, 19 May 2026 12:30:00 -0300https://falcao.org/posts/rke2-on-prem-kubernetes/<p>Most of the Kubernetes conversation in 2026 happens around managed services — <strong>EKS</strong>, <strong>GKE</strong>, <strong>AKS</strong> — and most of the rest happens around <strong>K3s</strong> for edge and homelab. Somewhere in the middle, on the hardware that lives in a rack in a datacenter you can drive to, there&rsquo;s a Kubernetes story that nobody talks about loudly enough.</p> <p>That story is <strong>RKE2</strong> — the Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2, SUSE&rsquo;s hardened, security-focused, single-binary distribution designed for on-premises production. I&rsquo;ve been running it for two years across two different employers and one home lab, and it&rsquo;s the rare piece of infrastructure that gets more impressive the longer you live with it.</p>