Rancher Suite K8S Adventure - Chapter 017 - Connect Harvester to Rancher

Rancher Suite K8S Adventure - Chapter 017 - Connect Harvester to Rancher

A travelogue of converting from OpenStack to Suse's Rancher Suite for K8S including RKE2, Harvester, kubectl, helm.

Today we connect the Harvester cluster to the Rancher manager.  Its a short, simple task.

https://docs.harvesterhci.io/v1.1/rancher/rancher-integration

https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/integrations-in-rancher/harvester

Harvester clusters are imported on the Virtualization Management page in Rancher.

"Import Existing"

Cluster name "harvester-small" haven't run into any problems with cluster names containing a dash... at least not yet.

I add myself and admin as role "cluster admin" in the "member roles" section.

Rancher will provide a registration link and instructions.

Switch over to a Harvester UI web page, "Advanced" then "Settings"

"Edit Settings" for "cluster-registration-url" then copy and paste the Rancher-provided URL into Harvester.  Click "Save".

Around five minutes later the harvester-small appears in Rancher as an "Active" cluster.

As I understand it, the Harvester node driver was integrated into Rancher a long time ago and does not need to be added.

Tomorrow we look at the Web UIs in Rancher and Harvester now that they're linked.