Rancher on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

Rancher is a kubernetes management platform. It gives you a single control plane for provisioning, importing, observing and governing kubernetes clusters wherever they run, with a full web dashboard, centralised authentication and role based access control, a built in helm chart catalogue, and cluster wide monitoring, logging and policy. The cloudimg image ships rancher installed the way upstream supports for real workloads: the official helm chart deployed onto a single node kubernetes cluster running on the vm itself, with cert-manager issuing the tls certificate. Every container image the platform needs is pre-staged into the image, so the cluster comes up on first boot without reaching out to a registry.

Common uses

• Run a kubernetes control plane and management dashboard from a single vm
• Import and govern existing kubernetes clusters under one set of policies and logins
• Give teams a self service catalogue of helm applications with role based access control

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.