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Rancher on SLES 15 as a demo environment

If you followed the last posts (Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 1 – One node, Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 2 – Three nodes and Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 3 – Rancher setup) about Rancher, you know how to setup Rancher in a highly available RKE cluster. While this is the way to… 

Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 3 – Rancher setup

The is the next post in this little Rancher series. After we installed a single node RKE cluster and extended this configurtation to three nodes we will finally install Rancher in this post. As Rancher is installed with Helm we need to install that first: rancher@rancher1:~$ wget https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.5.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz rancher@rancher1:~$ tar axf helm-v3.5.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz rancher@rancher1:~$ sudo mv linux-amd64/helm /usr/local/bin/ rancher@rancher1:~$ sudo chown… 

Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 1 – One node

If you want to play with Rancher you have several options, as outlined in the documentation. There are quick starts for the major public cloud providers (using Terraform), you can install it on a Linux host by using the Rancher container or you can do it on your own. We’ll be doing it step by step, as I believe that…