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Eliminate standing and excessive privileges in Rancher instances

Apply Just-in-Time and Just Enough Access to your Rancher instances

Rancher is an open-source platform that simplifies deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters across any environment, providing centralized control, security, and scalability for containerized applications.

Integration Overview

Apono helps organizations achieve Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) by eliminating permanent privileged access to systems, cloud environments, databases, developer tools, and other critical instances.

With Apono, all your Rancher clusters and projects are continuously discovered, enabling security teams to enforce granular, dynamic, time-bound, and context-aware access policies to your Rancher instances.

Through Just-in-Time (JIT) and Just-Enough-Access (JEA) provisioning, access to Rancher instances is provisioned only to authorized users when needed, and automatically revoked, thereby reducing over-privileged accounts, minimizing the attack surface, and maintaining operational agility without compromising security.

Use Cases

JIT and Just Enough Access

  • Provision real-time access to Rancher instances.
  • Ensure right-sized permissions and enforce strict controls on access provisioning to Rancher instances.
  • Minimize unauthorized access risk and reduce the blast radius of security breaches.

Operational Efficiency

  • Eliminate manual access requests and ticketing delays by automating access workflows for engineers.
  • Reduce coordination overhead across DevOps, security, platform, and development teams with self-service, policy-driven access.
  • Accelerate time-to-access for developers while ensuring security teams retain full oversight and control.

Risk and Compliance

  • Achieve Zero Standing Privilege by reducing over-privileged and unused permissions by over 96%.
  • Simplify audits with detailed reporting, anomaly detection, and full access logs.
  • Protect sensitive customer data (PII, PHI, PCI) from unauthorized access.
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Integrate Rancher with Apono in 3 easy steps

Just three simple steps are all it takes to enable Just-In-Time access with Just Enough permissions to your Rancher instances.

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Connect Apono to Rancher

Gain instant visibility into all your Rancher clusters and projects – continuously discovering new ones as they are deployed.

Discover why companies—from mid-sized enterprises to Fortune 500s—trust Apono for streamlined JIT and JEA access management to Rancher instances.

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Gain complete visibility into Rancher resources

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Automate and centralize access to Rancher instances

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