hi. I just successfully created my first kubernetes cluster using rancher and the vsphere driver. provided were several options to boot up a VM. I picked boot2docker, which was marked as legacy. I notice that the "legacy" is very accurate. The OS seems to be quite old and has trouble connecting to letsencrypt-certified HTTPS endpoints. So I'm wondering what the standard way of creating a kubernetes node is for the vsphere driver. all the other options require templates, existing VMs or something else. boot2docker seems to me to be the only option where rancher generates the whole cluster on its own

VM templates are common

what do I create the template from, if not boot2docker? does rancher/suse recommend anything?

Any Linux distro really.

that'd really be a step backwards from what I'm used to from rancher (the company). I've been using k3os previously and was quite happy with it until it got discontinued

Correct.

cool, will try that