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We are running in AWS. When we started, 6 years ago, we used terraform. The last 3 clusters we created the vpc/subnets/sg using terraform, but the cluster itself was created using Raancher manager UI.

Thanks Ned! I am doing the same thing now, creating the VMs (in vmware) using Terraform. Just want to also be able to deploy the cluster as well. I can hand off to Ansible or even use Terraform to remote-exec or local-exec to get the cluster installed, just need to be able to do it in a repeatable way on a regular basis.

I’v been reading ‘Terraform In Action’ and the author suggest just that, use terraform for infrastructure and ansible for services/applications.

lol, right on. I mean Terraform is definitely not my favorite tool in the tool chest. Been Automating Kubernetes cluster deployment before kubeadm was even finished, but I used Cisco CloudCenter (I worked at Cisco on the CloudCenter team and did it for a PoC basically). Of course Cloud Center is EOL and not really a ton of OpenSource options out there in that space.

We’ve made the decision to move to AWS EKS. I have not figured out how Rancher fits in. I know I can import EKS clusters. We’ll be migrating our clusters to EKS over the next few months. Well actually we don’t make production changes during november/december so the migration will start in January. I’m doing a dev cluster now.

Well, we are a service provider in the blockchain space and will be doing our own offering but with Rancher clusters basically. EKS is alright, but I am just not the biggest fan of AWS. They are not cheap and getting support is like pulling teeth and super expensive. Just not worth it to me personally, but I know it is a popular choice for sure. The load balancer situation is definitely very nice to be fair.