What is Pastures?
Pastures extends Rancher with capabilities that don’t exist in the base platform:- AI diagnostics grounded in 48,000+ real K3s, Rancher, RKE2, and Harvester issue resolutions
- Fleet intelligence with health scoring, drift detection, and version tracking
- GPU fleet management for AI/ML workloads across clusters
- Harvester HCI integration for VM lifecycle management
- Security posture via CIS benchmarks and NeuVector integration
- Operations tooling for etcd backup, upgrade risk assessment, and audit logging
How is Pastures different from Rancher Prime / Liz?
| Capability | Rancher Manager | Rancher Prime (Liz) | Pastures (Free) | Pastures + Oracle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cluster management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI diagnostics | — | Generic LLM | BYO model | 48K+ grounded fixes |
| Source citations | — | — | — | ✓ GitHub issues linked |
| Fleet correlation | — | — | — | ✓ Cross-cluster matching |
| Fix verification | — | — | — | ✓ Post-fix monitoring |
| GPU fleet intelligence | — | — | ✓ (demo) | ✓ |
| CIS benchmark scanning | — | — | ✓ (demo) | ✓ |
| Upgrade risk assessment | — | — | ✓ (demo) | ✓ |
| Harvester HCI management | — | — | ✓ (demo) | ✓ |
| etcd backup management | — | — | ✓ (demo) | ✓ |
| Audit logging | — | — | ✓ (demo) | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | — | ✓ Apache 2.0 | ✓ Extension is Apache 2.0 |
Open source
The extension is licensed under Apache 2.0. The repository is at github.com/pastures-farm/pastures-rancher. The Rancher Oracle backend service is a paid hosted offering. The extension itself is fully open and works with any OpenAI-compatible model provider.Quickstart
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