SUSE Rancher Complete

• Introduction to SUSE Rancher: 
  
  • Overview of SUSE Rancher, its features, and architecture.
  • Introduction to the latest version of SUSE Rancher.
  • LTS considerations and understanding upgrade paths.
  • Rancher compared to OpenShift and other Kubernetes derivatives.
  • Kubernetes distributions for Rancher: K3s, RKE2 - advantages and limitations.
  • Possible operating systems as platforms for RKE2.
  • Rancher Management Server in the cloud and on-premises.
  • High-availability aspects.
  
  
• Cluster Management Overview with SUSE Rancher
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  • Understanding the SUSE Rancher API.
  • Introduction to the SUSE Rancher CLI.
  • Rancher Management Server and downstream clusters.
  • Upgrading downstream clusters.
  • Exemplary deployment of a Rancher cluster in the cloud.
  • Importing existing Kubernetes clusters, creating new clusters.
  • Cluster management capabilities by cluster type (Rancher, AKS/EKS/GKE, and others).
  • Understanding and debugging Rancher-specific namespaces.
  • The SUSE Rancher UI.
  • Cluster management.
  • Rancher-specific custom resources: Cluster, Node-Driver, ContainerDriver, UserAttributes, Catalogs, Workspaces, and more.
  • Cluster upgrades.
  • MachineDeployments, MachineSets, and Machines.
  • Rancher Extensions.
  • OS Management / Elemental.
  
  
• User Management:
  
  • Managing users and groups.
  • Understanding role-based access control.
  • Integration with IDM/Auth providers (LDAP, AD, and more).
  
  
• Template Management with SUSE Rancher
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  • Configuring templates.
  • Managing cluster and node drivers.
  • Configuring cloud credentials.
  
  
• Managing Kubernetes Workloads with SUSE Rancher:
  
  • Understanding projects and namespaces.
  • Understanding apps and Marketplace integration.
  • The kubectl CLI.
  • Understanding, deploying, managing, updating, and debugging Kubernetes workloads.
  • GUI-based workload management.
  • Configuring quotas and health checks.
  • Services and Ingress, service meshes.
  • Certificate management with Cert-Manager.
  • Operators.
  • Auto-provisioner and storage classes.
  • Cloud-native distributed block storage with Rancher's Longhorn.
  
  
• CI/CD and GitOps with SUSE Rancher:
  
  • CI/CD and GitOps: important concepts and tools.
  • Understanding and managing cluster groups.
  • Fleet: GitOps at Scale.
  • Complete CI/CD / GitOps stacks.
  
  
• Logging and Monitoring with SUSE Rancher
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  • Deploying the monitoring stack.
  • Monitoring with Prometheus/Alertmanager and Grafana.
  • Understanding SUSE Rancher logging and the Logging Operator.
  
  
• SUSE Rancher: Security:
  
  • Seccomp profiles, kernel capabilities.
  • OPA Gatekeeper: Compliance policies.
  • Full-featured cluster security with NeuVector.
  
  
• Backup and Recovery with SUSE Rancher:
  
  • Understanding SUSE Rancher backup prerequisites.
  • Creating downstream cluster snapshots.
  • Restoring downstream clusters.
  • Backup and recovery of SUSE Rancher Server.
    
    
    
    
  
  

This seminar is designed for architects, administrators, and DevOps teams who are planning to deploy, configure, and professionally administer Kubernetes clusters on SUSE's Rancher platform. The course can also serve as preparation for the SCA (Rancher) certification.

Participants are expected to have the following prerequisites:

• Proficiency in using the Linux command line is required. Participants should have prior knowledge equivalent to attending the GFU seminar Linux Introduction (s613) or Linux System Administration (s120), or possess a comparable level of expertise.
• Basic knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and container technologies is helpful. Previous experience or knowledge in virtualization, HA (High Availability), and storage clustering is also beneficial.