cluster-capabilities-table
| Action | Rancher Launched Kubernetes Clusters | EKS, GKE and AKS Clusters\<sup>1\</sup> | Other Hosted Kubernetes Clusters | Non-EKS or GKE Registered Clusters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Using kubectl and a kubeconfig file to Access a Cluster | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Managing Cluster Members | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Editing and Upgrading Clusters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓\<sup>2\</sup> |
| Managing Nodes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓\<sup>3\</sup> |
| Managing Persistent Volumes and Storage Classes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Managing Projects, Namespaces and Workloads | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Using App Catalogs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Configuring Tools (Alerts, Notifiers, Logging, Monitoring, Istio) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Running Security Scans | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Use existing configuration to create additional clusters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Ability to rotate certificates | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| [Ability to backup and restore Rancher-launched clusters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓\<sup>4\</sup> | |
| Cleaning Kubernetes components when clusters are no longer reachable from Rancher | ✓ | |||
| Configuring Pod Security Policies | ✓ | ✓ |
Registered GKE and EKS clusters have the same options available as GKE and EKS clusters created from the Rancher UI. The difference is that when a registered cluster is deleted from the Rancher UI, it is not destroyed.
Cluster configuration options can't be edited for registered clusters, except for K3s and RKE2 clusters.
For registered cluster nodes, the Rancher UI exposes the ability to cordon, drain, and edit the node.
For registered clusters using etcd as a control plane, snapshots must be taken manually outside of the Rancher UI to use for backup and recovery.