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Ryan Lewis has been selected as the chief executive officer at Rancher Government Solutions. RGS said Monday Lewis’ appointment aligns with the company’s significant growth driven by government agencies’ need for modern, open-source, container and Kubernetes technologies for their modernization initiatives.
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