This two-day course is designed for system administrators responsible for deploying and administering multiple Kubernetes cluster distributions with Rancher Server.

This course is designed for system administrators responsible for deploying and administering multiple Kubernetes cluster distributions with Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime. It begins with an introduction to Rancher Manager and its architecture.

Students will then learn how to access Rancher Manager using a web browser. During the course, an existing RKE2 Kubernetes cluster will be registered and a new RKE cluster will be provisioned with Rancher Manager and Kubernetes cluster administrative activities will be introduced. It also covers Kubernetes cluster management and hosted Kubernetes providers’ deployments in the public cloud.

The course includes a presentation about the provisioning and administration capabilities of Rancher Server and extensive hands-on experience with lab exercises.

This course prepares students for the SCA in Rancher Manager 2.7  for Rancher Prime exam.

Basic understanding on Kubernetes objects and resources would be beneficial. Having some linux command line experience is helpful.

Attendees will be taught the following concepts and skills:

• An Introduction to Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime
• Cluster and Cluster Template Management with Rancher Manager
• User Management
• Application Management with Rancher Manager
• Multi-cluster Application Management with Continuous Delivery
• Logging and Monitoring
• Rancher Manager Extensions
• Security Scans and Policy Constraint Configuration
• Variety of Shell Based Actions with Rancher Manager
• Backing up and Restoring Downstream Clusters and Rancher Manager

• Section 1: Course Introduction
• Understand the Course

• Section 2: Introduction to Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime
• Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime
• What’s New in Rancher Manager v2.7.2
• Rancher Manager Architecture
• Access Rancher Manager

• Section 3: Cluster Management with Rancher Manager
• Rancher Manager User Interface
• Cluster and Node Agents
• Import an Existing Kubernetes Cluster
• Provision an RKE Cluster on Existing Nodes
• Provision a K3s or RKE2 Cluster on Existing Nodes

• Section 4: User Management with Rancher Manager
• User and Group Management
• Roles

• Section 5: Cluster and Node Management with Rancher Manager
• RKE Template Configuration
• Node and Cluster Driver Management
• Cloud Credentials Configuration
• Infrastructure Provided Kubernetes Clusters
• Hosted Kubernetes Clusters

• Section 6: Application Management with Rancher Manager
• Projects and Namespaces
• Workload Deployment
• Application Repositories in Rancher Manager
• Application Management with Helm
• Quotas

• Section 7: Continuous Delivery with Rancher Manager
• Project Fleet
• Continuous Delivery

• Section 8: Logging and Monitoring with Rancher Manager
• Deploy Monitoring Stack
• Rancher Manager Logging
• External Logging Services for Grafana

• Section 9: Rancher Manager Extensions
• Introduction to Extensions
• Manage Extensions

• Section 10: Security Tools with Rancher Manager