# Rancher running on Elemental

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-running-on-elemental/45080>\
**Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\
**Created:** [February 5, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-running-on-elemental/45080 "2025-02-05T20:50:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobias.f](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@tobias.f](https://forums.suse.com/u/tobias.f)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-running-on-elemental/45080/1 "2025-02-05T20:50:02Z")

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Hello,

Can I run Rancher on Elementary?

I am new to Kubernetes and new to Rancher. For starting in my Home Lab I found with Rancher and k3S good solution to start with. I also like the concept of Elemental good to deploy the Linux OS of each node controlled by Rancher.

But is there also a way to use Elemental as underlaying of for Rancher? Or is this a bad idea?  
Otherwise I would go with openSUSE MicroOS.

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**Author:** ![kwk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/kwk/32/11997_2.png) [@kwk](https://forums.suse.com/u/kwk)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-running-on-elemental/45080/2 "2025-02-14T16:45:38Z")

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No, Rancher cannot manage itself (resp. the operating system layer it runs on) _yet_

See [this issue](https://github.com/rancher/elemental/issues/911) in the Elemental backlog on this topic.

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**Author:** ![tobias.f](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@tobias.f](https://forums.suse.com/u/tobias.f)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-running-on-elemental/45080/3 "2025-02-14T18:46:38Z")

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Tank you!  
This clearly answers my question.

So, in this case I believe going with openSUSE MicroOS is a good way to go.