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title: Operating System Management with Elemental
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Elemental enables cloud-native host management. Elemental allows you to onboard any machine in any location, whether its in a datacenter or on the edge, and integrate them seamlessly into Kubernetes while managing your workflows (e.g., OS updates).
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## Elemental with Rancher
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Elemental in Rancher:
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- Is Kubernetes native, which allows you to manage the OS via Elemental in Kubernetes clusters.
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- Is nondisruptive from a Kubernetes operational perspective.
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- Is declarative and GitOps friendly.
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- Allows OCI Image-based flows, which are trusted, deterministic, and predictable.
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- Works at scale. It enables fleet-sized OS management.
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### When should I use Elemental?
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- Elemental enables cloud-native OS management from Rancher manager. It works with any OS (e.g., SLE Micro vanilla).
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- Elemental allows cloud-native management for machines in datacenters and on the edge.
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- Elemental is flexible and allows platform teams to perform all kind of workflows across their fleet of machines.
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## Elemental with Rancher Prime
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- Deeply integrated already as GUI Extension in Rancher.
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- Extends the Rancher story to the OS. Working perfectly with SLE Micro for Rancher today.
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