Rancher Desktop
Containers and Kubernetes on your desktop, free and open source
Rancher Desktop installs a local Kubernetes cluster (k3s) and a container engine on Windows, macOS and Linux. You can choose between containerd and dockerd (Moby), pick the Kubernetes version and use familiar tools such as docker, nerdctl, kubectl and helm.
It is a free alternative to Docker Desktop.
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Cloud drive download
Files are zip archives of the official installers; unzip before installing.
macOS
- CTFile639.8 MB.zip· arm64· v1.25.0 · Access code
6965
Official downloads
Direct links to the files published by the developers.
Windows
- Rancher.Desktop.Setup.1.25.0.msi678.0 MB.msi★ sha256:8e8a703c
macOS
- Rancher.Desktop-1.25.0.aarch64.dmg639.8 MB.dmg· arm64★ sha256:17b93863
- Rancher.Desktop-1.25.0-mac.aarch64.zip626.1 MB.zip· arm64 sha256:46f3e654
- Rancher.Desktop-1.25.0-mac.x86_64.zip679.4 MB.zip· x64 sha256:c6f5f569
- Rancher.Desktop-1.25.0.x86_64.dmg693.1 MB.dmg· x64 sha256:859c6384
Linux
- rancher-desktop-linux-v1.25.0.zip698.6 MB.zip★ sha256:fef23d9b
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