# Kubernetes in Rancher

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/kubernetes-in-rancher/4707>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [November 24, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/kubernetes-in-rancher/4707 "2016-11-24T13:42:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mreferre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@mreferre](https://forums.suse.com/u/mreferre)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/kubernetes-in-rancher/4707/1 "2016-11-24T13:42:53Z")

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Hey there. This isn’t really a question but more of a comment that hopefully may spin up a good debate.  
I am playing with the latest Rancher release (well, at least i pulled the latest from Docker hub) and I instantiated a K8s cluster. As I was playing with it I instantiated with kubectl (on my mac) a container (kubectl run mynginx --image=nginx). This showed up as a pod in Rancher. Good.

As I was trying to delete that pod (either from the UI or from the CLI) I noticed it kept recreating. After some digging I noticed that the CLI was considering it a “deployment” (and not just a “pod”). As soon as deleted the “deployment” the pod disappeared and never came back.

This reminded me that deployments / jobs have been recently introduced to K8s and perhaps the Rancher K8s distribution doesn’t yet support those (or at least they were not surfaced in the UI). Then I tried to run kubectl version and I noticed that the server version is v1.2.4-rancher10.

Let alone the micro issues I had … I am wondering if 1.2.4 isn’t realistically a too old version to play with? Is there any plan to upgrade to one of the latest K8s versions? The gap between 1.2.4 (May-ish) and the current latest official (1.4.6) seems to be fairly wide.

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![vincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/vincent/32/7156_2.png) [@vincent](https://forums.suse.com/u/vincent)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/kubernetes-in-rancher/4707/2 "2016-11-24T16:04:55Z")

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Rancher 1.2 builds include Kubernetes 1.4, and have UI for deployments.

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**Author:** ![mreferre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@mreferre](https://forums.suse.com/u/mreferre)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/kubernetes-in-rancher/4707/3 "2016-11-24T17:15:51Z")

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Nice. Thanks.

Do you have an ETA?

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**Author:** ![mreferre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@mreferre](https://forums.suse.com/u/mreferre)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/kubernetes-in-rancher/4707/4 "2016-11-25T09:43:44Z")

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@vincent, I am also playing with Swarm and it seems to be having similar “release problems”. I find myself in troubles trying to connect to the Swarm with this exact problem ([https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/4145](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/4145)). What I am getting from that thread is that Rancher is moving (rightly so) to supporting “Swarm mode” in Docker Engine 1.12+. When is this going to happen?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/kubernetes-in-rancher/4707/5 "2016-11-25T17:14:39Z")

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Swarm support is coming in 1.2, which is targetted for next week.

if you follow the announcements category in our forums, you’ll receive an email when it GAs.