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glamorous-guitar-96571

09/28/2022, 2:31 PM
Hi guys! Is it still not possible to use Calico with RKE for bare metal? Here it states that we only can use it for aws or gce https://rancher.com/docs/rke/latest/en/config-options/add-ons/network-plugins/#calico
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great-jewelry-76121

09/28/2022, 2:33 PM
Reading https://projectcalico.docs.tigera.io/getting-started/kubernetes/rancher, I think you can set
plugin: none
under
network
in your configuration file, and then install Calico according to that doc.
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glamorous-guitar-96571

09/28/2022, 2:34 PM
@miniature-fall-17864 fyi
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rich-shoe-36510

10/04/2022, 6:45 AM
I'm using Calico on Bare Metal with just:
network:
    plugin: calico
Its RKE v1.3.14
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glamorous-guitar-96571

10/04/2022, 1:06 PM
Oh wow that would be awesome. We will try it out. Thanks @rich-shoe-36510!
@rich-shoe-36510 hi! So you don't set calico_cloud_provider at all, right? Since here it says
aws
or
gce
are the only options.
And second question @rich-shoe-36510 Do you have also encryption enabled for Calico via Rancher plugin?
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rich-shoe-36510

10/10/2022, 1:32 PM
That's correct @glamorous-guitar-96571, you just don't sepcify calico_cloud_provider. I don't use encryption tho.
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glamorous-guitar-96571

10/10/2022, 1:37 PM
@rich-shoe-36510 thanks! As far as I see this, it is not possible to enable encryption via Rancher/rke Calico plugin. But I would actually need that.
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rich-shoe-36510

10/12/2022, 1:42 PM
In that case you can specify
plugin: none
and install manually calico after you complete with
rke up
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