This is the 1.1.0 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to Mac, Windows, and Linux. The release contains some feature changes along with various bug fixes.
Important Updates & Fixes
- Kubernetes can be disabled to run just
containerd
ordockerd
by itself for reduced resource consumption. traefik
can be disabled to free up port 80 and 443 for alternate ingress configuration.- Internal container port forwarding support has been enabled again on Linux and macOS.
docker compose
is included whendocker
is selected in the "Supporting Utilities".- Improved support for DNS over VPN on Windows (tunnelling only, no split-DNS support yet).
host.docker.internal
is defined inside containers for compatibility.- Ports bound to
127.0.0.1
are no longer exposed externally.
You can connect with the developers via:
- The issue queue
- Rancher Users Slack in the #rancher-desktop channel
Changelog
The full version changelog, from v1.0.1, can be found using GitHub compare and the details of the release can be found in the v1.1.0 milestone.