Chapter 4: Creating an RKE and RKE2 Cluster
The standard way of deploying Rancher is by creating an Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) cluster then using Helm to install Rancher on the cluster. The new way to deploy Kubernetes clusters using RKE2 is built on K3s and the new internal cluster management model. By doing so, Rancher can manage the cluster it lives on directly without requiring an external tool such as RKE. This chapter will cover when using RKE2 over RKE makes sense, and how to bootstrap the first node and join additional nodes to the cluster. At this point, we'll install Rancher on the cluster using the Helm tool, which installs the Rancher server workload on the cluster. Finally, we'll cover how to configure a load balancer to support ...
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