Rancher Manager 2.8 for Rancher Prime Deployment

H46DBS

Course ID

H46DBS

Duration

2 days

Format

ILT/VILT

Overview

This course teaches you how to deploy and administer Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime in existing Kubernetes clusters. The course begins with an introduction to Rancher Manager, what is required for a deployment, different deployment strategies, and best practices for deployment. 


This course also provides an understanding of deploying Rancher Manager in three different ways depending on your specific needs: self-signed certificates, Let’s Encrypt, and signed certificates. Deployment in an air-gapped environment is also covered. Students are taught how to back up and restore Rancher Manager, migrate it to a new cluster, and how to upgrade it from a previous version to the current one.   


Course ID

H46DBS

Duration

2 days

Format

ILT/VILT

  • Audience

    This course is designed for anyone who needs to know how to deploy Rancher Manager, needs to know the process to troubleshoot deployment problems, or Rancher Manager consultants.


  • Prerequisites

    Before attending this course, you should have Linux command line experience and an understanding of Kubernetes objects and resources. We recommend you complete the the KUB201v1: Kubernetes Administration course.


  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Understand Rancher Manager
    • Understand deployment requirements
    • Know different deployment strategies
    • Deploy Rancher Manager
    • Backup and restore Rancher Manager
    • Migrate Rancher Manager to a new cluster
    • Upgrade Rancher Manager

  • Course outline

Module 1: Course Introduction



Module 2: Overview of the Rancher Manager Deployment Process


  • Introduction to Rancher Manager
  • Understand node requirements for Rancher Manager deployment
  • Understand deployment strategies understand Rancher Manager deployment options
  • Overview of Rancher Manager certificate options
  • Overview of Rancher Manager deployment best practices

Module 3: Install Rancher Manager


  • Overview of Rancher Manager deployment
  • Deploy cert-manager
  • Deploy Rancher Manager with self-signed certificates
  • Deploy Rancher Manager with Let's Encrypt
  • Deploy Rancher Manager with signed certificates

Module 4: Install Air-Gapped Rancher Prime Manager


  • Overview of Rancher Manager in an air-gapped environment
  • Mirror image repositories
  • Prepare Helm Charts
  • Deploy cert-manager and Rancher Manager

Module 5: Backup, Restore, and Migrate Rancher Manager


  • Overview of the Rancher Manager backup, restore, and the migration processes
  • Deploy the Rancher Backup operator
  • Back up Rancher Manager
  • Restore Rancher Manager
  • Migrating Rancher Manager to a new cluster

Module 6: Upgrade Rancher Manager


  • Understand Rancher Manager upgrade best practices
  • Upgrade a Rancher cluster

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