Hi guys Is it still not possible to use Calico with RKE for rancher-users #rke

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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

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

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

gce

are the only options.

And second question @rich-shoe-36510 Do you have also encryption enabled for Calico via Rancher plugin?

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.

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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