Introduction to Fleet, K3s, and Rancher - Hands-on Deployment and Management

Overview

Dive into a comprehensive live session exploring Fleet, k3s, and Rancher with Bastian Hofmann, Field Engineer at Rancher. Learn about Fleet's GitOps capabilities for managing large-scale cluster deployments, and discover k3s, a lightweight yet fully compliant Kubernetes distribution. Explore hands-on demonstrations including single-node and multi-node k3s installations, Rancher management features, cluster upgrades, integrated monitoring, and GitOps workloads using Fleet. Gain practical insights into these powerful tools for efficient container orchestration and management at scale.

Syllabus

- Holding screen
- Introductions
- Slides What is Rancher, Fleet, k3s
- Starting to gets hands on - a look at our hardware
- Installing single-node k3s on our first machine
- Installing and playing with Rancher
- Upgrading k3s clusters with Rancher
- Installing a multi-node / HA k3s cluster with etcd
- Using the Rancher integrated monitoring
- GitOps workloads with Fleet
- Recap