Introduction
Starting with Turtles |
SUSE® Rancher Prime Cluster API is a Kubernetes Operator that provides integration between Rancher Manager and Cluster API (CAPI) with the aim of bringing full CAPI support to Rancher. With SUSE® Rancher Prime Cluster API, you can:
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Automatically import CAPI clusters into Rancher, by installing the Rancher Cluster Agent in CAPI provisioned clusters.
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Configure the CAPI Operator.
Demo
This demo shows how to use the Rancher UI to install SUSE® Rancher Prime Cluster API, create/import a CAPI cluster, and install monitoring on the cluster:
Prerequisites
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Kubernetes cluster |
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Helm |
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Rancher |
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Using helm based installation on any kubernetes cluster directly or on a newly created Amazon, Azure or Google service based options. Additional feature gate modifications are required. |
Cert-manager |
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Using helm based installation or via kubectl apply. |
Cluster API Operator |
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Using Rancher UI (recommended) or Helm install (for development use cases) |
Cluster API |
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SUSE® Rancher Prime Cluster API |
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Using Rancher UI (recommended) or Helm install (for advanced use cases) |
Reference Guides
This section focuses on implementation details including architecture, how SUSE® Rancher Prime Cluster API integrates with Rancher, and Helm Chart configuration values.
Tasks
In this section we cover additional operational tasks including basic CAPIProvider
installation, an example AWS infrastructure provider install using CAPIProvider
, and upgrade instructions for early adopters of SUSE® Rancher Prime Cluster API.
Security
SUSE® Rancher Prime Cluster API meets SLSA Level 3 requirements as an appropriate hardened build platform, with consistent build processes, and provenance distribution. This section contains more information on security-related topics: