The documents in this section contain resources for less common use cases.
Advanced
- Overview
- Rancher Deployment Quick Start Guides
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Installing/Upgrading Rancher
- Installation Requirements
- Install/Upgrade Rancher on a Kubernetes Cluster
- Other Installation Methods
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Resources
- About Custom CA Root Certificates
- Choosing a Rancher Version
- Installing Docker
- Adding TLS Secrets
- Helm Version Requirements
- TLS Settings
- Upgrading Cert-Manager
- Updating a Private CA Certificate
- Enabling Experimental Features
- Setting up Local System Charts for Air Gapped Installations
- Troubleshooting the Rancher Server Kubernetes Cluster
- Advanced
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Don't have a Kubernetes cluster? Try one of these tutorials.
- About High-availability Installations
- Set up K3s for Rancher
- Set up RKE2 for Rancher
- Set up RKE Kubernetes
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Infrastructure Tutorials
- Set up Infrastructure for a High Availability K3s Kubernetes Cluster
- Set up Infrastructure for a High Availability RKE2 Kubernetes Cluster
- Set up Infrastructure for a High Availability RKE Kubernetes Cluster
- Setting up Nodes in Amazon EC2
- Setting up a MySQL Database in Amazon RDS
- Setting up an NGINX Load Balancer
- Setting up Amazon ELB Network Load Balancer
- Best Practices Guide
- Backups and Disaster Recovery
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Authentication, Permissions and Global Configuration
- Configuring a Global Default Private Registry
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Authentication
- Users and Groups
- Configuring Google OAuth
- Local Authentication
- Configuring Active Directory (AD)
- Configuring OpenLDAP
- Configuring FreeIPA
- Configuring Azure AD
- Configuring GitHub
- Configuring Keycloak (SAML)
- Configuring PingIdentity (SAML)
- Configuring Microsoft Active Directory Federation Service (SAML)
- Configuring Okta (SAML)
- Configuring Shibboleth (SAML)
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Upgrading Kubernetes without Upgrading Rancher
- Pod Security Policies
- Provisioning Drivers
- RKE Templates
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Setting up Kubernetes Clusters in Rancher
- Node Requirements for Rancher Managed Clusters
- Checklist for Production-Ready Clusters
- Setting up Clusters from Hosted Kubernetes Providers
- Launching Kubernetes with Rancher
- Registering Existing Clusters
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Cluster Administration
- Cluster Access
- Cluster Autoscaler
- Upgrading and Rolling Back Kubernetes
- Adding a Pod Security Policy
- Cluster Configuration
- Nodes and Node Pools
- Kubernetes Persistent Storage: Volumes and Storage Classes
- Projects and Kubernetes Namespaces with Rancher
- Tools for Logging, Monitoring, and Visibility
- Cloning Clusters
- Certificate Rotation
- Backing up a Cluster
- Restoring a Cluster from Backup
- Removing Kubernetes Components from Nodes
- Project Administration
- Pipelines
- Helm Charts in Rancher
- Deploying Applications across Clusters
- Monitoring/Alerting
- Istio
- Logging
- OPA Gatekeeper
- CIS Scans
- Kubernetes Resources
- Longhorn Storage
- Security
- Using the Rancher Command Line Interface
- System Tools
- User Settings
- API
- FAQ
- Troubleshooting
- Contributing to Rancher