SUSE Rancher Prime: RKE2 (RKE2)

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SUSE Rancher Prime: RKE2, also known as RKE Government, is Rancher’s next-generation Kubernetes distribution.

It is a fully conformant Kubernetes distribution that focuses on security and compliance within the U.S. Federal Government sector. To meet these goals, SUSE Rancher Prime: RKE2 does provides defaults and configuration options that allow clusters to pass the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.6 or v1.23 with minimal operator intervention. It alsoe nables FIPS 140-2 compliance and regularly scans components for CVEs using trivy in our build pipeline.

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Advanced Options & Configuration

This section provides information about certificate rotation, containerd configuration, node labels & taints configuration, support for NVIDIA Container Runtime, additional logging, and more.

An introduction to SUSE Rancher Prime: RKE2

An introduction to SUSE Rancher Prime: RKE2, a fully conformant Kubernetes distribution focusing on security and compliance within the U.S. Federal Government sector.

Architecture

This section provides an overview of the architectural components under the hood.

Backing up and restoring an RKE2 cluster

This section describes how to create backups of the RKE2 cluster data and how to restore the cluster from backup.

Installation Guide

This section contains the prerequisites, quick start guide, high availability installation, air-gap installation, and uninstall procedures.

Known issues and Limitations

This section provides information about critical known issues and recommendations.

Networking configuration

This section covers networking-related topics such as basic networking options and services, installing & configuring CNI plugins, and more.

Reference

The reference section provides information about using the CLI tools shipped with RKE2, agent and server configuration options, and resource profiling.

RKE to RKE2 Replatforming Guide lock

This document recommends how to plan for and implement replatforming from Rancher-managed RKE clusters to Rancher-managed RKE2 cluster.

Securing your RKE2 cluster

This section describes the methodology and means of securing an RKE2 cluster, including secret encryption, hardening guides, certificate management and more.

Upgrades

This section covers the procedures for performing manual and automated upgrades.

Using Helm package manager

This section provides information about Helm for Kubernetes package management and configuration options to customize helm chart installations in a RKE2 cluster.

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