Hi All, I'm playing with the windows cluster, all up and running, except pods can't reach out to the host network/internet. I tried both options vxlan/l2 with same result. Not sure how to solve it. Any suggestions/reference are greatly appreciated

Hey everyone -- so grateful to find this channel! when following this blog entry, how do I know what needs to be done on the Win host and what needs to be done on WSL?

Does anyone know where I can find information managing and hardening WSL2 for a corporate environment. That one of the road blocks for using Rancher-Desktop in a corporate environment.

Hello. I'm setting up a cluster to do a POC to check if we can use Rancher to run our windows docker images. I have set up a Rancher on an separate K3s cluster. In Rancher i created a new rke2 cluster. With version v1.23.7+rke2r2. There are 3 linux Control Planes. They work perfectly. 1 Windows agent was added based on Server 2019. I added the container and hyper-v features in windows. The node is running in Rancher and is green. When i try to run a windows container on that node, It fails with the message failed to create containerd task: failed to create shim: hcs::CreateComputeSystem 4c94c11d23498ae7b56845b9a074ba99387e4ea12e947e052f8a2d32b752931c: The directory name is invalid.: unknown I have no clue what this is and how to fix this. Does this ring a bell to someone?

Getting error "404 page not found" for http://localhost/ after installing rancher desktop could any one help on this? facing this issue in windows

Created new Windows cluster k8s v1.21.14 using Rancher 2.6.6 and facing an issue with provisioning windows nodes. It’s unable to pull an image rancher/rke-tools:v0.1.87 Looking at dockerhub the latest windows compatible image is v0.1.83. Any suggestions?

rancher-agent:v2.6.8 fails with log error="Error response from daemon: failed to start service utility VM (createreadwrite): kernel 'C:\\Program Files\\Linux Containers\\kernel' not found". I'm running docker in a windows 2019 vm on ESXI, and I have turned on "Expose hardware virtualization to the guest OS" in the CPU setting of the VM.

Is there anyone using windows with RKE2, k8s 1.24+ ?

I'm looking at C:\etc\rancher\rke2\registries.yaml which contains "{"configs":{},"mirrors":null}" and that doesn't look like yaml to me. If I do a manual edit of the content, And the same goes for C:\etc\rancher\rke2\config.yaml.d\50-rancher.yaml. Also very much looking like json. Changes made to registries.yaml are nuked

Is this just me? Docker not producing standard output unless run interactively is a major bug.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to create a new cluster using RKE2 (1.24.9+rke2r2) + W2022 LTSC, but I'm stuck on some odd networking/calico issue: windows pods can reach each other and external addresses, but they cannot reach any linux pod, even the cluster DNS IP 10.43.0.10 cannot be reached from windows pods. I have previous experience with a k8s cluster using RKE + Windows 2019, so not a first-time k8s user, but I've exhausted my options debugging it I'd appreciate if someone could give me an insight into whatever it could be.

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Hi to all, I am trying to deploy a RKE2 cluster via Rancher server. I am trying to deploy a mix cluster with Windows and Linux nodes. The cluster is deployed and running OK with Linux nodes but i am having problem to add windows nodes. I have tried this steps for this windows nodes. I have deployed Windows Server 2022 LTSC (amd64) (OS Build 20348.169) as sugested from RKE2 named W2022LTSC on a GCVE I have tried a clone of this VM to add to created RKE2 cluster and has successfully registered to cluster. I have migrated W2022LTSC VM from GCVE to Google cloud GCE and tried to register it to cluster and it is not posible to get registered. Nothing is changed from the working VM on GCVE and looks like RKE2 windows nodes are not compatible with GCE Can anyone confirm if this is a known issue or try to debug this problem?

Hi there! I`ve same issue https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/36986 And I can`t understand how to install cloudbase-init correctly. Help me please

I think I have found the reason why rancher nodes are unable to register. At least on my case it seems that RKE2 is using the same IP as google for metadata service "169.254.169.254" can anyone let us know what service from RKE2 is using IP 169.254.169.254 and if there is a possibility to change or manually set it to a different one?

Hello everyone! How would you suggest collecting container logs from a Windows host? For linux it’s simple: pick a loki-stack installation and you are pretty much done. Is it possible to replicate the same setup on Windows?

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I just posted this in general, but would probably be more appropriate here: I know windows nodes are supported in an rke2 hybrid cluster, but just curious... Has anyone been able to automate deploying a hybrid rke2 cluster and have the windows nodes join automatically? I would love to be able to auto-scale windows worker nodes without running a join command manually

@here, can anyone assist with the issue https://rancher-users.slack.com/archives/C01PHNP149L/p1692201674969809 ?

I am trying to create a mixed windows and linux RKE2 cluster with calico and on Linux everything works OK but i am having a problem running any pod on windows node. I get an error like this:

Failed to create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to setup network for sandbox "3b6e71fae7f997a232ff42a03fb90b41356a117293e28": plugin type="calico" name="Calico" failed (add): global strict affinity should not be false for Windows node

Can anyone know for to fix this?

Iam getting an issue Server: ERROR: error during connect: Get "http://localhost:2375/v1.24/info": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:2375: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. errors pretty printing info

Iam getting an issue Server: ERROR: error during connect: Get "http://localhost:2375/v1.24/info": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:2375: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. errors pretty printing info

Iam getting an issue Server: ERROR: error during connect: Get "http://localhost:2375/v1.24/info": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:2375: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. errors pretty printing info

Iam getting an issue Server: ERROR: error during connect: Get "http://localhost:2375/v1.24/info": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:2375: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. errors pretty printing info

Iam getting an issue Server: ERROR: error during connect: Get "http://localhost:2375/v1.24/info": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:2375: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. errors pretty printing info

Iam getting an issue Server: ERROR: error during connect: Get "http://localhost:2375/v1.24/info": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:2375: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. errors pretty printing info

Iam getting an issue Server: ERROR: error during connect: Get "http://localhost:2375/v1.24/info": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:2375: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. errors pretty printing info

can anyone help to fix this. I am trying to deploy a windows node in a Rancher 2.7.6 kubernetes v1.26.7+rke2r1 cluster but i get an HNS error:

startup/dataplane_windows.go 119: Unable to create hns network Calico subnet="240.28.141.128/26"

the problem seems to be at:

startup/startup.go 823: Selected default IP pool is '192.168.0.0/16'

I have specified

cluster-cidr: 240.28.0.0/15

on both calico global configuration and cluster network but on windows node keeps comming wrong subnet for HNS