Quickstart examples to deploy Rancher + Elemental

Quickly stand up a Rancher Manager server with Elemental on Digital Ocean.

Intended for experimentation/evaluation ONLY.

You will be responsible for any and all infrastructure costs incurred by these resources. As a result, this repository minimizes costs by standing up the minimum required resources for a given provider.

Rancher Management Server quickstart

Rancher Management Server Quickstarts are provided for:

Cloud quickstart

• DigitalOcean (do)

You will be responsible for any and all infrastructure costs incurred by these resources.

Each quickstart will install Rancher on a single-node K3s cluster, then will install the Elemental-operator in Rancher. This setup provides easy access to the core Rancher functionality while establishing a foundation that can be easily expanded to a full HA Rancher server.

Requirements - Cloud

• Terraform >=1.0.0
• Credentials for the cloud provider used for the quickstart

Using cloud quickstarts

To begin with any quickstart, perform the following steps:

1. Clone or download this repository to a local folder
2. Choose a cloud provider and navigate into the provider's folder
3. Copy or rename terraform.tfvars.example to terraform.tfvars and fill in all required variables
4. Run terraform init
5. Run terraform apply

When provisioning has finished, terraform will output the URL to connect to the Rancher server. One Kubernetes configurations will also be generated:

• kube_config_server.yaml contains credentials to access the cluster supporting the Rancher server

For more details on each cloud provider, refer to the documentation in their respective folders.

Remove

When you're finished exploring the Rancher server, use terraform to tear down all resources in the quickstart.

NOTE: Any resources not provisioned by the quickstart are not guaranteed to be destroyed when tearing down the quickstart. Make sure you tear down any resources you provisioned manually before running the destroy command.

Run terraform destroy -auto-approve to remove all resources without prompting for confirmation.

This project is mainly base on https://github.com/rancher/quickstart which cannot be modified for QA as it is used and referenced in the official Rancher Documentation. That's why I see it as a separate project, small things have been added like deploying the elemental-operator, choosing if you want to use stable or devel Rancher version.