Continental Innovates with Rancher and Kubernetes
In this section, we recommend best practices for creating the production-ready Kubernetes clusters that will run your apps and services.
For a list of requirements for your cluster, including the requirements for OS/Docker, hardware, and networking, refer to the section on node requirements.
This is a shortlist of best practices that we strongly recommend for all production clusters.
For a full list of all the best practices that we recommend, refer to the best practices section.
etcd
controlplane
worker
For more information on what each role is used for, refer to the section on roles for nodes in Kubernetes.
For more information about the number of nodes for each Kubernetes role, refer to the section on recommended architecture.
heartbeat-interval
500
election-timeout
5000