Setting Up an In-tree VMware vSphere Cloud Provider
To set up the in-tree VMware vSphere cloud provider, follow these steps while creating the vSphere cluster in Rancher:
Set Cloud Provider option to
Custom
orCustom (In-Tree)
.Click on Edit as YAML
Insert the following structure to the pre-populated cluster YAML. This structure must be placed under
rancher_kubernetes_engine_config
. Note that thename
must be set tovsphere
.rancher_kubernetes_engine_config:
cloud_provider:
name: vsphere
vsphereCloudProvider:
[Insert provider configuration]
Rancher uses RKE (the Rancher Kubernetes Engine) to provision Kubernetes clusters. Refer to the vSphere configuration reference in the RKE documentation for details about the properties of the vsphereCloudProvider
directive.