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Hey creating rke2 cluster with ansible means that you are creating a centralised cluster ( have nothing to do with rancher ) . In this case you will be directly talking to the ip of nodes using ansible And using terraform rancher2 means you are using rancher api to create downstream cluster from rancher platform. Here terraform will be communicating with the rancher apis to create nodes / cluster

Hi Aditya, thanks for the reply. The high level differences between the two deployment methods I am already aware as I performed both deployments. I am looking for more concrete differences on operational level. For example, what additional k8s resources the Rancher server will deploy on the downstream cluster (during installation) and how those affect the operation on the cluster.