The following steps quickly deploy a Rancher Server with a single node cluster attached.

Prerequisites

  • Vagrant: Vagrant is required as this is used to provision the machine based on the Vagrantfile.
  • Virtualbox: The virtual machines that Vagrant provisions need to be provisioned to VirtualBox.
  • At least 4GB of free RAM.

Getting Started

  1. Clone Rancher Quickstart to a folder using git clone https://github.com/rancher/quickstart.

  2. Go into the folder containing the Vagrantfile by executing cd quickstart/vagrant.

  3. Optional: Edit config.yaml to:

    • Change the number of nodes and the memory allocations, if required. (node.count, node.cpus, node.memory)
    • Change the password of the admin user for logging into Rancher. (default_password)

  4. To initiate the creation of the environment run, vagrant up.

  5. Once provisioning finishes, go to https://172.22.101.101 in the browser. The default user/password is admin/admin.

Result: Rancher Server and your Kubernetes cluster is installed on VirtualBox.

What’s Next?

Use Rancher to create a deployment. For more information, see Creating Deployments.

Destroying the Environment

  1. From the quickstart/vagrant folder execute vagrant destroy -f.

  2. Wait for the confirmation that all resources have been destroyed.