Rancher Vagrant Quick Start

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

Note: The intent of these guides is to quickly launch a sandbox that you can use to evaluate Rancher. These guides are not intended for production environments. For comprehensive setup instructions, see Installation.

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.

Note

• Vagrant will require plugins to create VirtualBox VMs. Install them with the following commands:

  vagrant plugin install vagrant-vboxmanage

  vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

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/rancher/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. (admin_password)

4. To initiate the creation of the environment run, vagrant up --provider=virtualbox.

5. Once provisioning finishes, go to https://192.168.56.101 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/rancher/vagrant folder execute vagrant destroy -f.

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