Deploy Rancher on Kubernetes

Projects: c2platform/ansible, c2platform.mw

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for deploying Rancher on MicroK8s Kubernetes on node gsd-rancher1. On this node Ansible will provision first MicroK8s and then deploy Rancher on it. The Kubernetes Dashboard will then be enabled. After provision Rancher will be available via https://rancher.c2platform.org  and the dashboard will be available via https://dashboard-rancher.c2platform.org  .

Overview

Prerequisites

Create the reverse and forward proxy c2d-rproxy1.

c2
unset PLAY  # ensure all plays run
vagrant up c2d-rproxy1

For more information about the various roles that c2d-rproxy1 performs in this project:

• Setup Reverse Proxy and CA server
• Setup SOCKS proxy
• Managing Server Certificates as a Certificate Authority
• Setup DNS for Kubernetes

Vagrant

Create and provision the node with the following command:

vagrant up c2d-rancher1

Verify

With the reverse proxy c2d-rproxy provisioned and successfully running see Getting Started you should be able to navigate to https://rancher.c2platform.org  or https://dashboard-rancher.c2platform.org  and login.

Links

• Setup Kubernetes
• Setup the Kubernetes Dashboard