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fast-ice-89102

02/10/2023, 8:24 AM
Is anyone aware of any "managed Rancher" offering (as-service) where one brings the Helm-charts to deploy the workload and pay for the usage, get a consumption dashboard, monitoring dashboard etc. If there are more than one such offering, it'd be great to know of the alternatives. Note that, I am not looking for non-Rancher K8s hosting like EKS, GKE etc., very specifically the Racher distribution of K8s.
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creamy-pencil-82913

02/10/2023, 8:26 AM
Rancher has 3 distros, RKE, RKE2, and K3s. Which one are you looking for? Civo Cloud is based on K3s. Or do you also want the Rancher UI in addition to one of our Kubernetes distros?
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fast-ice-89102

02/10/2023, 10:01 AM
Good to know about Civo, however I am interested in managed service built on RKE2. As for Rancher UI, that is not essential, but good to have.
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sparse-fireman-14239

02/10/2023, 1:03 PM
Why does it matter which distribution they are running, if all you want to do is deploy Helm charts? The whole point of a fully managed K8s env is that you don't have to bother with that layer.
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fast-ice-89102

02/10/2023, 1:23 PM
My end-customer runs RKE2 on-prem and they insist on sanity test on similar environment. Trying to avoid having to set it up, finetune and manage it in our lab, if possible.
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sparse-fireman-14239

02/10/2023, 1:24 PM
Fine-tune? There's no real fine-tuning needed if all you need is a lab env, it pretty much works out of the box, and there's a 3rd party Ansible role to automate the whole thing
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fast-ice-89102

02/10/2023, 1:28 PM
Fine tune for network performance mostly. We do have some specific requirements too from worker nodes (lksctp, dkms...), support of kubeVIP etc. Ideally, we'd like for this to be RKE2 on bare-metal.
The Ansible Role to install RKE2 is definitely interesting and the route we'd take if DIY is the only option.
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creamy-pencil-82913

02/10/2023, 5:46 PM
I’m not aware of anyone offering a managed Kubernetes service based on RKE2.
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fast-ice-89102

02/10/2023, 5:47 PM
Thank you @creamy-pencil-82913