v2.1.0

Features

• install Rancher AI by default (2bc6278)

Other changes

• release with auto-release instead of release-please (c8b08a7)
• use the shared Terraform and release-please workflows (b47f525)
• pin runners to ubuntu-24.04 instead of ubuntu-latest (c636aeb)
• renovate: mark manual-review rules with the label (e739e88)

Full changelog: v2.0.0...v2.1.0

v2.0.0

2.0.0 (2026-10-20)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• hosts deployed with rke2_ingress_controller: ingress-nginx switch to Traefik on the next deploy; RKE2 restarts and the Rancher Ingress moves to class traefik.
• fleet_gitrepo_enabled and the cluster-status, rancher-logs and port-forward-rancher host scripts are removed.

Features

• add an optional registry pull-through cache for RKE2 and the kind clusters (#51) (28398da)
• add helm_charts list with monitoring and backup presets, and metrics-server on kind (#50) (40b147a)
• add Kubewarden, Longhorn and Harbor chart presets (#54) (35c8f29)
• add snapshot, snapshots and restore commands (#46) (b9d473c)
• expose Fleet apps through Ingress and remove dropped cluster labels (#49) (559ff0c)
• let Rancher provision RKE2 clusters on Docker-container nodes (#53) (223e508)
• run Rancher release candidates, nightly builds and settings (#48) (fccff0b)

Bug Fixes

• restart workloads after an etcd restore (#47) (8e4e88e)

Code Refactoring

• drop host helper scripts and fold fleet_gitrepo into fleet_apps (#44) (5bc6a46)
• drop the ingress-nginx option and always use Traefik (#52) (62b4264)

v1.1.0

1.1.0 (2026-10-18)

Features

• add a Lima VM for local deploys (#25) (701efb8)
• ansible: add manage.sh kubeconfig (#20) (7d40fc3)
• ansible: configure etcd snapshots and optional S3 upload (#19) (61409ac)
• capi: add capd_enabled for hosts that already run Docker (#30) (e9dd2ad)
• default rancher_hostname to the host's DNS name and follow changes (#40) (f5cd667)
• deploy apps to every cluster with Fleet (#43) (16c1c89)
• optional kind downstream clusters imported into Rancher (#31) (c67e41f)
• pick the Kubernetes version of each downstream cluster (#42) (9b82ef2)
• terraform: encrypt the root EBS volume (#18) (53c583f)

Bug Fixes

• ansible: keep the fetched kubeconfig private (#27) (7ee3edf)
• name kubeconfig contexts after the host (#33) (a4007e2)
• reach clusters through Rancher and survive uninstall-rancher (#32) (d21753e)
• refuse foreign RKE2/K3s installs and set Rancher's server URL (#29) (9153a38)