TK8 extends Kubespray to provide support for Upstream / Vanilla Kubernetes and OpenShift Origin for OpenStack, Bare-Metal and EKS, with additional capabilities such as multi-os and multiple add-ons support. RKE doesnвЂ™t support the provisioning of the base infrastructure for you. Rancher provides also his own Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE), which is a custom Kubernetes Cluster installer and implementation of upstream Kubernetes.

You can run Rancher server on any K8s cluster or on a single VM or multiple VMs anywhere.

Rancher is a container and K8s cluster management platform built on Kubernetes itself. TK8 provides the easiest deployment method for Kubespray. TK8 is mainly a CLI which acts as a wrapper around Kubespray written in Golang to support the deployment of high available K8s clusters with Kubespray with some additional capabilities such as multi-os and multiple add-ons support. TK8 is the short name of вЂњThe KubernautвЂќ or вЂњThe KubesparyвЂќ (вЂњubernautвЂќ and вЂњubepsrayвЂќ have 8 characters). Rancher server will be able to import and manage our workloads running on his own cluster and on the second K8s cluster which was deployed by TK8 on the second cluster. This post will guide you to build an HAвЂ™ed Hybrid Kubernetes Cluster with TK8 and Rancher.ДЄfter a short introduction to TK8 and Rancher, weвЂ™ll deploy 2 Kubernetes Clusters on OpenStack (or Bare-Metal servers) and AWS with TK8 first and weвЂ™ll deploy Rancher on top of the K8s cluster running on OpenStack or on the TK8 made K8s Cluster running on AWS.

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