Using RKE to Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on Exoscale
Introduction One of the biggest challenges with Kubernetes is bringing up a cluster for the first time. There have been several projects that attempt to address this gap including kmachine and minikube. However, both assume you are starting from a blank slate. What if you have your instances provisioned, or have another means of provisioning hosts with configuration management? This is the problem that the people at Rancher are solving with the Rancher Kubernetes Engine or RKE. Read More…
Creating a Production Quality Database Setup using Rancher: Part 1
Objective: In this article, we will walk through running a distributed, production-quality database setup managed by Rancher and characterized by stable persistence. We will use Stateful Sets with a Kubernetes cluster in Rancher for the purpose of deploying a stateful distributed Cassandra database. Pre-requisites: We assume that you have a Kubernetes cluster provisioned with a cloud provider. Consult the Rancher resource if you would like to create a K8s cluster in Amazon EC2 using Rancher 2. Read More…
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