Provision Kubernetes Cluster (RKE) To Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Requirements

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account
• Python
  • Pipenv
• Pulumi

Install Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE)

1. Create account to Oracle Cloud for free:

   https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

2. Setup OCI credentials:

   https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/apisigningkey.htm#Required_Keys_and_OCIDs

3. Install Pulumi:

   https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/install/

4. Install Python packages with pipenv (https://pipenv.pypa.io/en/latest/install/#installing-pipenv):

   pipenv install

5. Activate Python virtual environment:

   pipenv shell

6. Set the OCI compartment ID, and path to your private and public SSH key with Pulumi:

   pulumi login --local

   pulumi stack

   pulumi stack select

   pulumi config set ssh-key-path <path to your private SSH key>

   pulumi config set ssh-public-key-path <path to your public SSH key>

   pulumi config set --secret compartment-id <your OCI compartment ID>

7. Launch 2 free tier ARM instances to Oracle Cloud and deploy RKE with Pulumi:

   pulumi up

Your Kubernetes configuration file should be available in out/rke_kubeconfig so you can use commands like KUBECONFIG=out/rke_kubeconfig kubectl ....

Ramblings

Was going to use RKE2 but no dice with ARM currently: rancher/rke2#817