<p>I'm trying to dig into Rancher, and was wondering if having Rancher plugged in with Kubernetes has any additional benefits over Cattle which is Rancher's in home orchestration framework. So far, I haven't been able to figure out why someone would opt for Rancher with Kubernetes. Does it only help ease out the initial setup of Kubernetes? How do these options differ from a stand alone setup of Kubernetes ?</p>

<p>There is now a very good answer to this. Rancher just moved 100% into Kubernetes by announcing Rancher 2.0: <a href="http://rancher.com/announcing-rancher-2-0/" rel="noreferrer">http://rancher.com/announcing-rancher-2-0/</a>. It does not use Cattle anymore.</p>
