Rancher Turtles: Installation of backend

README.md

This assumes you have a Rancher Manage v2.8.0 cluster running in kind with the docker socket shared (see this).

1. Create a new file called feature.yaml with this content:

apiVersion: management.cattle.io/v3
kind: Feature
metadata:
  name: embedded-cluster-api
spec:
  value: false

2. Apply this to the Rancher Manager cluster:

kubectl apply -f feature.yaml

3. Wait for Rancher to restart and the capi-controller-manager deployment in the cattle-provisioning-capi-system to be deleted
4. In Rancher Manager navigate to the local cluster
5. Using the left navigation go to Apps->Repositoes
6. Click Create to add a new repository
7. Enter the following: Name: turtles Index URL: https://rancher.github.io/turtles
8. Wait for the turtles repository to have a status of Active
9. Go to Apps->Charts
10. Filter for Turtles
11. Click Rancher Turtles - the Cluster API extension**
12. Click Install
13. Click Next
14. Click Install
15. Wait for the following deployments to be ready:

• rancher-turtles-system/rancher-turtles-controller-manager
• rancher-turtles-system/rancher-turtles-cluster-api-operator
• capi-system/capi-controller-manager

This is based on the original gist: https://gist.github.com/alexander-demicev/13be899c9b33cdeb42d69c8777fb9e54

Index URL in step 7 should now be: https://rancher.github.io/turtles/

Thanks @valaparthvi - i've updated it.

If Rancher is using self-signed certificates; edit the rancher-turtles-system/rancher-turtles-controller-manager deployment and add --insecure-skip-verify=true to the flags.