Usage

This repo is to create rancher and add kind (Kubernetes IN Docker) into Rancher automatically with all-in-one script

• Create Rancher UI
• create Kind Kubernetes cluster
• Init rancher admin’s password
• update server url in rancher
• import kind cluster into rancher

Notes

Rancher API keeps changing, currently we hard code the rancher version to version "v2.6.2"

Prerequisite

1. Make sure you have installed Kind (kubernetes in docker) locally.

The installation instruction is here: https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/

2. Adjust docker engine memory

Default docker engine is set to use 2GB runtime memory, adjust it to 8GB+ if you can.

3. review kind.yaml

Currently I only set one worker node, you can add more if you need.

$ cat kind.yaml.template
kind: Cluster
apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
nodes:
- role: control-plane
- role: worker
  extraMounts:
  - hostPath: ./data
    containerPath: /data
- role: worker
  extraMounts:
  - hostPath: ./data
    containerPath: /data
- role: worker
  extraMounts:
  - hostPath: ./data
    containerPath: /data

with this way, you can share the local directoy ./data to all nodes as persistent volume.

Get help

$ ./rkind.sh
Usage: ./rkind.sh [FLAGS] [ACTIONS]
  FLAGS:
    -h | --help | --usage   displays usage
    -q | --quiet            enabled quiet mode, no output except errors
    --debug                 enables debug mode, ignores quiet mode
  ACTIONS:
    create                create new Rancher & Kind cluster
    destroy               destroy Rancher & Kind cluster created by this script
  Examples:
    $ ./rkind.sh create
    $ ./rkind.sh destroy

Update kind (kuberentes in docker) configuration in local kind.yaml (https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/)

Create the stack

$ ./rkind.sh create

destroy the stack

$ ./rkind.sh destroy

custom kind configuration

If you'd like to change the kind configuration, please update file kind.yaml. For details, go through https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/