Chapter 5: Deploying Rancher on a Hosted Kubernetes Cluster

One of the great things about Rancher is it can be deployed on any certified Kubernetes cluster. This means that Rancher can be installed on a hosted Kubernetes cluster such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon Elastic Container Service (EKS) for Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Digital Ocean's Kubernetes Service (DOKS). This can simplify management on Rancher, but there are some limitations with hosted Kuberenetes solutions. We will then cover the rules for designing the hosted Kubernetes cluster along with some standard designs. At which point, we'll install Rancher on the cluster using the Helm tool to install the Rancher server workload on the cluster. Finally, ...

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