7 Rancher Turtles #
See Rancher Turtles documentation at https://documentation.suse.com/cloudnative/cluster-api/
Rancher Turtles is a Kubernetes Operator that provides integration between Rancher Manager and Cluster API (CAPI) with the aim of bringing full CAPI support to Rancher
7.1 Key Features of Rancher Turtles #
Automatically import CAPI clusters into Rancher, by installing the Rancher Cluster Agent in CAPI provisioned clusters.
Install and configure CAPI controller dependencies via the CAPI Operator.
Manage installed CAPI provider dependencies via the
CAPIProviderAPI
7.2 Rancher Turtles use in SUSE Edge #
The SUSE Edge stack provides a rancher-turtles-providers helm chart that enables certain CAPI providers via the CAPIProvider API:
RKE2 Control Plane and Bootstrap provider
Metal3 (Chapter 10, Metal3) infrastructure provider
Metal3 (Chapter 10, Metal3) IPAM provider (currently not supported)
Fleet addon provider
Only the default providers installed via the wrapper chart are supported - alternative Control Plane, Bootstrap and Infrastructure providers are not currently supported as part of the SUSE Edge stack.
7.3 Installing Rancher Turtles #
Since Rancher 2.13, Rancher Turtles is enabled by default when installing Rancher.
Rancher Turtles Providers may be installed by following the Metal3 Quickstart (Chapter 1, BMC automated deployments with Metal3) guide, or the Management Cluster (Chapter 41, Setting up the management cluster) documentation.