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dazzling-stone-4104

08/13/2022, 2:11 PM
Hello guys. I've installed Rancher Desktop 1.5.1 (I'm newbie using this software, I used to with docker-desktop) but I don't see the control-plane pods, where are them?
PS C:\Users\user> kubectl get po -n kube-system
NAME                                      READY   STATUS      RESTARTS         AGE
helm-install-traefik-crd-k5frg            0/1     Completed   0                2d10h
helm-install-traefik-wm695                0/1     Completed   1                2d10h
snapshot-controller-7f568698bf-sjcqc      1/1     Running     98 (2m47s ago)   2d10h
coredns-7796b77cd4-mb6m9                  1/1     Running     2 (2m47s ago)    2d10h
snapshot-controller-7f568698bf-99qwr      1/1     Running     98 (2m47s ago)   2d10h
svclb-traefik-ktlnl                       2/2     Running     4 (2m47s ago)    2d10h
traefik-d497b4cb6-v2vtv                   1/1     Running     2 (2m47s ago)    2d10h
local-path-provisioner-84bb864455-wcl5n   1/1     Running     3 (74s ago)      2d10h
metrics-server-ff9dbcb6c-qn8n5            1/1     Running     3 (2m47s ago)    2d10h
I've tried with nerdctl command but nothing shows
PS C:\Users\user> nerdctl ps -a
CONTAINER ID    IMAGE    COMMAND    CREATED    STATUS    PORTS    NAMES
PS C:\Users\user> kubectl get cs
Warning: v1 ComponentStatus is deprecated in v1.19+
NAME                 STATUS    MESSAGE   ERROR
scheduler            Healthy   ok
controller-manager   Healthy   ok
Another question: How can I backup the etcd db? Thanks in advance!
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worried-hospital-16911

08/14/2022, 12:33 PM
I’m pretty new to Rancher Desktop as well. But What I’he understood so far is that is based on k3s so there is no etcd
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best-city-49378

08/15/2022, 3:36 PM
No control plane pods, either
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proud-jewelry-46860

08/15/2022, 5:55 PM
Right, we don't run the Kubernetes parts as a container; it's just a process on the VM (in the Windows case, the WSL VM/container). And since K3s defaults to using sqlite, backups would involve turning off Kubernetes (to make sure it's not in use) and backing up
/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server
per documentation.