Rancher
- This is a complete software stack for teams adopting containers.
- It addresses the operational and security challenges of multiple kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure
- Rancher in k8s
- Multi-Cluster Management
- Integrate tools
- Access control
- Security
- Easy Setup
- Extensible Catalog
- Customizable
- Unified Experience
- Rancher’s core philosophy
- Open source
- No lock ins
- Everything is a k8s object
- Everything is stateless
- controller model
Setup
- Ensure you have a linux host and Refer Here for installation requirements
- Install docker
https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/getting-started/installation-and-upgrade/installation-requirements/install-docker
- Run the rancher in docker
docker container run -d --restart=unless-stopped \
-p 80:80 -p 443:443 --privileged \
--name rancher \
rancher/rancher
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Rancher can help in Creating/Managing k8s clusters
- Cloud Providers
- Existing nodes
- Import existing cluster
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Rancher has 2 version of Kubernetes engins
- RKE
- RKE2
