SUSE® Rancher Manager Agent Options

Rancher deploys an agent on each node to communicate with the node. This pages describes the options that can be passed to the agent. To use these options, you will need to create a cluster with custom nodes and add the options to the generated docker run command when adding a node.

For an overview of how Rancher communicates with downstream clusters using node agents, refer to the architecture section.

General options

Parameter Environment variable Description

--server

CATTLE_SERVER

The configured Rancher server-url setting which the agent connects to

--token

CATTLE_TOKEN

Token that is needed to register the node in Rancher

--ca-checksum

CATTLE_CA_CHECKSUM

The SHA256 checksum of the configured Rancher cacerts setting to validate

--node-name

CATTLE_NODE_NAME

Override the hostname that is used to register the node (defaults to hostname -s)

--label

CATTLE_NODE_LABEL

Add node labels to the node. For multiple labels, pass additional --label options. (--label key=value)

--taints

CATTLE_NODE_TAINTS

Add node taints to the node. For multiple taints, pass additional --taints options. (--taints key=value:effect)

Role options

Parameter Environment variable Description

--all-roles

ALL=true

Apply all roles (etcd,controlplane,worker) to the node

--etcd

ETCD=true

Apply the role etcd to the node

--controlplane

CONTROL=true

Apply the role controlplane to the node

--worker

WORKER=true

Apply the role worker to the node

IP address options

Parameter Environment variable Description

--address

CATTLE_ADDRESS

The IP address the node will be registered with (defaults to the IP used to reach 8.8.8.8)

--internal-address

CATTLE_INTERNAL_ADDRESS

The IP address used for inter-host communication on a private network

Dynamic IP address options

For automation purposes, you can’t have a specific IP address in a command as it has to be generic to be used for every node. For this, we have dynamic IP address options. They are used as a value to the existing IP address options. This is supported for --address and --internal-address.

Value Example Description

Interface name

--address eth0

The first configured IP address will be retrieved from the given interface

ipify

--address ipify

Value retrieved from https://api.ipify.org will be used

awslocal

--address awslocal

Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4 will be used

awspublic

--address awspublic

Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4 will be used

doprivate

--address doprivate

Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/interfaces/private/0/ipv4/address will be used

dopublic

--address dopublic

Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/interfaces/public/0/ipv4/address will be used

azprivate

--address azprivate

Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance/network/interface/0/ipv4/ipAddress/0/privateIpAddress?api-version=2017-08-01&format=text will be used

azpublic

--address azpublic

Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance/network/interface/0/ipv4/ipAddress/0/publicIpAddress?api-version=2017-08-01&format=text will be used

gceinternal

--address gceinternal

Value retrieved from http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/network-interfaces/0/ip will be used

gceexternal

--address gceexternal

Value retrieved from http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/network-interfaces/0/access-configs/0/external-ip will be used

packetlocal

--address packetlocal

Value retrieved from https://metadata.packet.net/2009-04-04/meta-data/local-ipv4 will be used

packetpublic

--address packetlocal

Value retrieved from https://metadata.packet.net/2009-04-04/meta-data/public-ipv4 will be used