Infrastructure-as-Code, a DevOps best practice, is a workflow that involves managing and configuring your environments through source control. This allows teams to move faster and with fewer errors when making changes to production environments. If a mistake does occur, your environment and apps can quickly be reverted back to a previous state. Save time, increase productivity, and reduce the cost of inevitable human error. In this month’s edition of Rancher’s popular community online meetup, we will show you how to set up Rancher for end users from beginning to end, and how to manage clusters, projects and apps all from versioned controlled source. Finally, we’ll show off Rio’s new GitHub integration for deployments and pull requests. Join us as Rancher Head of Product Management Bill Maxwell and Software Engineer Taylor Price discuss and demo: The benefits and design of an Infrastructure-as-Code workflow Start-to-finish, production-grade setup of an Infrastructure-as-code workflow using Rancher, Terraform, and Rio. We’ll show you how to setup a Git-based deployment of the Rancher Management Server cluster and the Kubernetes cluster it runs on using Terraform, plus: How to upgrade your setup, deploying and upgrading child Kubernetes clusters using Git-based config with Terraform How to deploy and upgrade workloads on your clusters using Rio

1. September 25, 2019#RancherMeetup
Implementing Infrastructure-as-Code

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Darren Shepherd
Co-Founder/Chief Architect
Rancher Labs
@ibuildthecloud
#RancherMeetup
Shannon Williams
Co-Founder/VP Sales & Marketing
Rancher Labs
@smw355

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Bill Maxwell
Product Manager
Rancher Labs
@cloudnautique
cloudnautique
#RancherMeetup
Taylor Price
Senior DevOps Engineer
Rancher Labs
@drpebcak
drpebcak

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First things first…
This is a not a !
#RancherMeetup

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There are rules for a meetup!
• We won’t be done on time
• Questions are always welcome
• There are no bad questions
• Demo, then demo some more
• Things will break, be patient
#RancherMeetup

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This meetup is being recorded!
http://youtube.com/c/rancher
#RancherMeetup

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Join the conversation on Twitter
#RancherMeetup
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http://slack.rancher.io

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Agenda
1. Rancher Overview - Shannon
2. Introduction to Infrastructure-as-Code with Rancher 2.3 and Rio – Bill
3. Demo: Deploying an Environment and Application - Taylor
4. Questions and Getting Started
#RancherMeetup

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Rapid growth of Kubernetes is exposing the need
for centralized Management
DatacenterCloud Edge
Infrastructure
IT Operations
and Security
Application
Environments
Consistent Cluster
Operations
Security, Policy and
User Management
Shared Tools
& Services
Kubernetes Workloads
Dev
DevOps Tooling
Staging
Testing Prod
Application 1
Kubernetes Workloads
Dev
DevOps Tooling
Staging
Testing Prod
Application 2
Kubernetes Workloads
Dev
DevOps Tooling
Staging
Testing Prod
Application 3
#RancherMeetup

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Start by Deploying Certified Kubernetes Clusters
Everywhere Your Team Runs Containers
• Fully Managed Service
• Cost Effective
• Multi AZ
• Standard Upstream K8s
DatacenterCloud Kubernetes Edge
• Automated Operations
• Flexible Config Options
• Runs on any infrastructure
• Standard Upstream K8s
• Unattended Operations
• Minimal Footprint
• Runs on x86 and ARM
• Standard Upstream K8s
Amazon
EKS
Azure
AKS
Google
GKE
#RancherMeetup

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Rancher is a Kubernetes Management Platform
Infrastructure
GKE AKSEKS k3sRKE RKE Any
Authentication
Unified Kubernetes Management
Cluster Operations
& Infrastructure
Management
Cluster
Provisioning
Backup and
Recovery
Shared ToolingPolicy
Management
Pod and Network
Security Policies
RBAC
Policies
Infrastructure
Provisioning
Cluster
Autoscaling
Upgrade and
Patching
Node
Management
Configuration
Enforcement
#RancherMeetup

13. Rancher 2.3 Update
OCTOBER GA In October
New features
- Integrated Istio Service Mesh
- Cluster Templates
- Windows Container Support
- Lots more

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Infrastructure as
Code with
Rancher and
Kubernetes
Photo by Dakota Roos on Unsplash

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Infrastructure as Code
Text Editor
Commit
Code
Automated
Process

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Why Do Infrastructure as Code
Versioning Velocity
Risk
Safety

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How Rancher Sees Infrastructure as Code
Rancher Admin
Rancher2 Terraform Provider
Cluster ConsumerCluster Admin
Rancher Management
Plane
Clusters
Policies
Catalog Apps
Kubeconfigs
Create Clusters
Projects
Role bindings
Catalogs

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Today’s Goals
• Provision Rancher HA Management
Cluster
• Provision a Rancher Managed RKE
Cluster
• Upgrade the Rancher Managed RKE
Cluster
• Deploy RIO
• Git deployments with RIO
Rancher HA
6 EC2 Nodes
RKE Cluster
etcd Backups
Load balancer
Rancher
Management
plane
Auth Provider
Rancher Managed RKE
cluster
Nodes
Load Balancer
Backups
RIO
Git Based App Deploys

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Infrastructure
3 Control Plane/etcd Nodes
Provision Rancher HA Management Cluster
• Build out hosting
infrastructure
• Deploy RKE
• Deploy Helm
• Deploy Rancher
• Bootstrap Rancher
Load Balancer
3 Worker Nodes
RKE
Helm
Rancher HA Installation
Bootstrap Rancher

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Demo!

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K8s Clusters Operations
Infrastructure
Control Plane/etcd Nodes
Load Balancer
Worker Nodes
Create Rancher Cluster
• Part 1
• Create a custom cluster in
Rancher
• Deploy infrastructure
• Rancher will provision
Kubernetes on the
infrastructure.
• Deploy RIO
• Part 2
• Upgrade the Kubernetes cluster
in Rancher

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Demo!

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What is RIO
• MicroPaaS built from CRDs on Kubernetes
• Incorporates Istio/Linkerd, Prometheus,
Knative and Let’s Encrypt
• Implements common capabilities including:
• Git-based continuous delivery
• Automatic DNS
• TLS certificate management
• HTTP Routing
• HTTP Monitoring & Metrics
• Autoscaling (Scale to Zero)
• Canary, A/B, Blue/Green deployments

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Continuous Delivery Workflow with
Commit
Code to
GitHub
Open PR
• RIO
Deploys
• Updates
Status API
User
reviews PR
PR is
merged
RIO
Deploys
Latest

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Demo!

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Rancher Quick Start Guide
https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/quick-start-guide/

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Rancher Projects
Alpha
Alpha
Alpha
Alpha
Beta

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Thank you
@Rancher_Labs · #RancherMeetup