rancher-rodeo

Prerequisites

• Machine with 8GB RAM, SSD – Run 1 rancher server and 3 nodes (change the RAM size)
• Machine with 16GB RAM NVME Disk – Run 1 Rancher Server and 3 VMS
• 4 VMs running in Cloud (2GB each, ensure security group has UDP 500 & 4500, TCP 8080, 10255,10256, 2049 & 80 open. Recommend all traffic on UDP and TCP allowed in local network)

Only run Docker 1.12.6 if you want the K8s demo to work!

Vagrant users

• https://www.vagrantup.com/ (For installing Vagrant)
• https://www.mls-software.com/opensshd.html (Windows only, install OpenSSHD on Windows to ensure vagrant can ssh into nodes to do provisioning
• https://github.com/chrisurwin/rancher-rodeo (Github repository containing all the necessary files to run your Vagrant setup)
• Get started with:

$ git clone https://github.com/chrisurwin/rancher-rodeo && cd rancher-rodeo
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh rancherserver

Running Rancher

• sudo docker run -d -p 8080:8080 rancher/rancher

Persistent Storage: Setting up the NFS server

• mkdir /home/rancher/nfs
• sudo docker run -d --name nfs --restart=always --privileged --net=host -v /home/rancher/nfs:/nfsshare -e SHARED_DIRECTORY=/nfsshare itsthenetwork/nfs-server-alpine:4 NB: Update the command with the path to your NFS folder

Download kubectl

• Determine version of kubectl needed by running kubectl version in CLI
• Download kubectl version for your platform (macOS/Linux/Windows): https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/
• If using RancherOS GA on cloud, run: (on Vagrant this is done automatically on vagrant up)
• sudo ros engine switch docker-1.12.6
• sudo system-docker restart docker

Run the yaml definitions from the rancher-rodeo Github repository

• cd rancher-rodeo/k8s
• kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml NB: Update the IP address to your NFS server IP address
• kubectl apply -f class.yaml

Deploy Wordpress from Helm

• helm init
• helm repo update
• helm install stable/wordpress --name wordpress --set persistence.enabled=true,persistence.storageClass=managed-nfs-storage,mariadb.persistence.storageClass=managed-nfs-storage