Hey all I m new here and noob to the clusters stuff I follow rancher-users #rancher-desktop

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magnificent-jackal-25711

01/04/2023, 9:24 PM

Hey all! I'm new here and noob to the clusters stuff. I followed this document to install rancher on K3s: https://docs.rancherdesktop.io/how-to-guides/rancher-on-rancher-desktop/ Everything works perfect but after I restart my pc and launch rancher desktop I see K3s up in kubectl. But also I see no containers running image in "nerdctl ps" output including the rancher one. So I can't login back using the password I setup. If I run new rancher container with the instruction from docs: nerdctl run --privileged -d --restart=no -p 8080:80 -p 8443:443 rancher/rancher It prompts me for the Bootstrap Password and setting the user password again. What should I do to preserve the user passwrord from the first setup and use it across the reboots?

fast-garage-66093

01/05/2023, 10:28 PM

You should be able to restart the existing container with

nerdctl start ...

, but I found there is a bug in nerdctl which throw an error when you do that: Cannot start previously stopped containers (`plugin type=\"bridge\" failed (add): failed to allocate for range 0: 10.4.0.4 has been allocated to default-XXXX, duplicate allocation is not allowed"`) · Issue #665 · containerd/nerdctl

It is probably going to work if you switch the container engine from "containerd" to "moby" and use the

docker

cli instead.

Another thing to do would be to use

--restart=always

, so the container restarts automatically when you restart Rancher Desktop. I haven't tested it yet, so I don't know if this would run into the same issue with

nerdctl

or not.

Using

--restart=always

seems to also bypass the

nerdctl

issue about restarting containers. We have updated the documentation now.

magnificent-jackal-25711

01/06/2023, 1:51 PM

works as a charm now, thank Jan!

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