# Rancher/RKE officially supported for ECK?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rancher-rke-officially-supported-for-eck/246317>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [August 25, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rancher-rke-officially-supported-for-eck/246317 "2020-08-25T15:49:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![BenB196](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/benb196/32/83401_2.png) [@BenB196](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BenB196)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rancher-rke-officially-supported-for-eck/246317/1 "2020-08-25T15:49:09Z")

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Hi All,

I was wondering if Rancher/RKE is officially support for ECK or not.

Looking at: [Support Matrix | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#matrix_kubernetes) its not directly listed, but it does state (Vanilla Kubernetes 1.12+) which RKE is for the most part.

Also, on the [ECK Github](https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/issues), the issue template contains:

> - Kubernetes distribution: Openshift / Rancher / PKS ?

So I wanted to confirm whether Rancher/RKE would be considered supported for ECK.

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**Author:** ![pebrc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pebrc/32/101790_2.png) [@pebrc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pebrc)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rancher-rke-officially-supported-for-eck/246317/2 "2020-08-31T11:38:23Z")

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Rancher Kubernetes Engine is a certified Kubernetes installer (no distribution) so this is covered under the definition of "Vanilla Kubernetes".

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**Author:** ![BenB196](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/benb196/32/83401_2.png) [@BenB196](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BenB196)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rancher-rke-officially-supported-for-eck/246317/3 "2020-08-31T13:38:07Z")

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Great. Thank you for this information.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rancher-rke-officially-supported-for-eck/246317/4 "2022-11-04T08:11:22Z")

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