Rancher Kubernetes On Demand

Install Rancher 2.0 Kubernetes on Demand with RKE

Abstract

We want to install an Kubernetes-Cluster into the Digital Ocean Cloud. To automate this, we provision our infrastructure with terraform and deploy the cluster with Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE).

Plan

1. With terraform, create three nodes with docker installed.
2. Generate cluster-template-file for rke
3. Deploy Kubernetes-Cluster with RKE

Solutions

We have two different versions available:

1. First version requires you to install tools locally and uses some scripts
2. Second version is containerized and leverages the use of terraform, only docker ist required on your machine