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Rancher Deep Dive
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Rancher Deep Dive

by Matthew Mattox
July 2022
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
8h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2: Rancher and Kubernetes High-Level Architecture

This chapter will cover the high-level processes of Rancher, Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE), RKE2 (also known as RKE Government), K3s, and RancherD. We will discuss the core design philosophy of each of these products and explore the ways in which they are different. We'll dive into Rancher's high-level architecture and see how Rancher server pods communicate with downstream clusters using the Cattle agents, which include both the Cattle-cluster-agent and the Cattle-node-agent. We'll also look at how the Rancher server uses RKE and how Rancher-machine provisions downstream nodes and Kubernetes (K8s) clusters. After that, we'll cover the high-level architecture of K8s, including kube-api-server ...

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ISBN: 9781803246093