Hi everyone!
We’ve just released a new project in the Rancher organization that enables Harvester to be deployed on cloud providers instead of bare-metal infrastructure.
Why is this useful?
Setting up Harvester typically requires bare-metal hardware, but with this project, we can easily spin up a Harvester environment in the cloud, ideal for:
• Testing
• Labs
• Proof of Concepts (PoC)
This makes experimentation easier, without the need for dedicated hardware.
The project is available here:
https://github.com/rancher/harvester-cloud
Below are some useful links to the documentation:
•
Demonstration in Google Cloud environment
•
Demonstration in Microsoft Azure environment
•
Demonstration in DigitalOcean environment
If you are wondering why AWS is not mentioned above, it is because Harvester deployment on cloud providers is based on nested virtualization, and AWS does not support it.
Take a look
here for more details.
In the repository you will also find code to perform day 2 actions on the Harvester cluster, such as
image creation,
network creation, and
VM pool creation.
Feel free to ask us questions and/or give us feedback!