Rancher

The SUSECON 2024 in Berlin

As part of the SUSE partner program, we were warmly invited to attend the SUSECON 24 in Berlin with my colleague Jean-Philippe Clapot. A two and half days event where we joined the SUSE family to learn more(…)

My first day at SUSECON 2024

It is mid-June, and I have the opportunity with my colleague Arnaud Berbier to go to Berlin. Not for visiting the city, not for sightseeing, but for a business conference. This year, SUSECON set its location in(…)

Rancher RKE2: Rancher roles for cluster autoscaler

The cluster autoscaler brings horizontal scaling into your cluster by deploying it into the cluster to autoscale. This is described in the following blog article https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/rancher-autoscaler-enable-rke2-node-autoscaling/. It didn’t emphasize much about the user and role configuration. With(…)

Rancher RKE2 templates – Assign members to clusters

When testing RKE2 templates, I faced an issue with member assignments. When creating the cluster, a management cluster name is generated with the format c-m-xxxxxxxx, but the ClusterRoleTemplateBinding requires the cluster name to work. After digging into Rancher source(…)

Rancher RKE2: Introduction on RKE2 cluster template for AWS EC2

In Rancher, you can preconfigure your clusters and node configuration. Then your team can start provisioning clusters, with consistency and no misconfiguration. For RKE, templates are easily comprehensible and seamlessly integrated into the Rancher UI, making it user-friendly. For(…)

Reestablish administrator role access to Rancher users

Introduction I came across a situation where there were no more Administrator users in Rancher. Therefore there was no access to the local (Rancher) cluster and administration of Rancher through the UI. No user could configure and reassign the(…)

Rancher autoscaler – Enable RKE2 node autoscaling

In Rancher, if you make use of node drivers to provision your RKE2 nodes, you can also make use of the cluster autoscaler. In this article, I will show you how simply you can configure the autoscaler for your(…)

Kubernetes is giving off good vibes

Kubernetes is the de facto standard when you think about container orchestration and scheduling, automation in software deployment, and maybe even more a whole ecosystem of tools and components orbiting around it. Since its origin in 2015, Kubernetes(…)

Do you know Rancher Desktop?

Today I stumbled across Rancher Desktop and thought I'll give it a try. If blogged about Rancher in the past but all those blogs talked about the full blown Rancher project. Rancher Desktop brings(…)

Rancher installation on RHEL 8 compatible Linux

This Blog is about the installation of Rancher Community on a RHEL 8 compatible Linux, for this Blog i choose AlmaLinux 8.4, but i will also work on Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Candidate. Base is an AlmaLinux / Rocky(…)