Supporting development with Rancher Server

Tom Bamford24 Jan, 2017

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Container adoption in software development

Never used

Played with it Using

locally

Learning

Built a local environmentusing compose

Looked it up on StackOverflow

Culture Constraints

Explaining Docker tosenior management is like...

Container Cluster Managers (“Container Distributions?”)

Orchestration and Scheduling Frameworks

Rancher Labs

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Rancher Server Features

100% OpenSource - https://github.com/rancher/rancher+ Enterprise support options available from RancherLabs

●High Availability configuration

●Access controls - Active Directory/LDAP/Shibboleh/Github-OAuth

●Rancher Catalog (community + private)

●Rolling Updates (blue/green) and Rollback

●Native Services (DNS, Load Balancers, LetsEncrypt)

Assembly instructions

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 rancher/server

Installation…

Assembly instructions

docker run -d --restart=unless-stopped -p 8080:8080 -p 9345:9345 --name rancher_server rancher/server:v1.3.1

--db-host mydb.xxx.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com --db-port 3306 --db-name mydb --db-user rancher_user --db-pass rancher_pass --advertise-address rancher.mydom.com

Installation…Tip: Externalise the DB early so you

don’t have to export/import!

Demos...

Walkthrough InfrastructureDemo 1: Hello-World

Rancher Catalogue P

Demo 2: Community -WordPress

Demos...

Walkthrough Infra Catalogue Backing ServicesDemo 3: Jenkins on EFS

Demos...

Demo 4: Spin up Kubernetes Environment

Demos...

Demo 5: Prometheus