Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1 – Rancher Background and Architecture and Design
Chapter 1: Introduction to Rancher and Kubernetes
The history of Rancher Labs as a company
Rancher's earlier products
What is Rancher's core philosophy?
Where did Kubernetes come from?
What problem is Kubernetes trying to solve?
Comparing Kubernetes with Docker Swarm and OpenShift
Kubernetes versus Docker Swarm
Kubernetes versus OpenShift
Summary
Chapter 2: Rancher and Kubernetes High-Level Architecture
What is the Rancher server?
What are RKE and RKE2?
So, what is RKE?
What is RKE2?
What is K3s (five less than K8s)?
What is RancherD?
What controllers run inside the Rancher server pods?
What do the Cattle agents do?
How does Rancher provision nodes and clusters? ...
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