rancher¶
Technically this isn’t a piece of k8s, but I’m putting it here for me.
install¶
Make sure you try to connect to it with the hostname, and not by IP. It won’t work with just the IP.
## add the helm repo
$ helm repo add rancher-latest https://releases.rancher.com/server-charts/latest
"rancher-latest" has been added to your repositories
## create the namespace
$ kubectl create namespace cattle-system
namespace/cattle-system created
## install rancher
$ helm install rancher rancher-latest/rancher --namespace cattle-system \
--set hostname=rancher.k8s.wafflelab.online \
--set bootstrapPassword=temporarypassword \
--set ingress.tls.source=certmanager \
--set certmanager.version=v1.18.2
NAME: rancher
LAST DEPLOYED: Wed Oct 8 15:25:21 2025
NAMESPACE: cattle-system
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None
NOTES:
Rancher Server has been installed.
NOTE: Rancher may take several minutes to fully initialize. Please standby while Certificates are being issued, Containers are started and the Ingress rule comes up.
Check out our docs at https://rancher.com/docs/
## First Time Login
If you provided your own bootstrap password during installation, browse to https://rancher.k8s.wafflelab.online to get started.
If this is the first time you installed Rancher, get started by running this command and clicking the URL it generates:
echo https://rancher.k8s.wafflelab.online/dashboard/?setup=$(kubectl get secret --namespace cattle-system bootstrap-secret -o go-template='{{.data.bootstrapPassword|base64decode}}')
To get just the bootstrap password on its own, run:
kubectl get secret --namespace cattle-system bootstrap-secret -o go-template='{{.data.bootstrapPassword|base64decode}}{{ "\n" }}'
Happy Containering!