Rancher installation guide

Install on localhost

Kubectl

Debian based systems:

  1. Update the apt package index and install packages needed to use the Kubernetes apt repository

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl

2. Download the Google Cloud public signing key

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/kubernetes-archive-keyring.gpg https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg

3. Add the Kubernetes apt repository

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/kubernetes-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list

4. Update and install

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y kubectl

RHEL based systtems:

cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo
[kubernetes]
name=Kubernetes
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/kubernetes-el7-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
EOF
yum install -y kubectl

Helm

  1. Install helm

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3 | bash

2. Add repo

helm repo add rancher-stable https://releases.rancher.com/server-charts/stable

3. Create Rancher namespace

kubectl create namespace cattle-system

Cert Manager

  1. Install Cert Manager

kubectl apply --validate=false -f https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/releases/download/v1.2.0/cert-manager.crds.yaml

2. Create Namespace

kubectl create namespace cert-manager

3. Add Jetstack Helm repo

helm repo add jetstack https://charts.jetstack.io

4. Update repo

helm repo update

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