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This is part 2 of our series. Here, we show how to use Cluster API (CAPI) to create Azure Kubernetes managed clusters. We’ll use Cilium as our Container Network Interface (CNI) and explore additional features. Follow along to experiment with CAPI and explore the Azure cloud.
Summary:
In this post, we show how to use Cluster API (CAPI) to create Azure Kubernetes managed clusters. We will use Cilium as our Container Network Interface (CNI) and explore additional features. Follow along to experiment with CAPI and explore the Azure cloud.
In a previous post, we covered how to create an RKE2 cluster on Azure Cloud using the cloud-free credits from the Rancher UI. As this is a convenient approach to get started with Rancher, in today's post, we will demonstrate how to use OpenTofu to automate the deployment.
OpenTofu is a fork of Terraform. It is an open-source project, community-driven, and managed by the Linux Foundation. If you want to get familiar with what OpenTofu is and how to get started, check out the link here.
We will also show how easy it is to customise the Cilium configuration. Plus, we will enable kube-vip for LoadBalancer services using HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language).
For the last couple of days, I have been working on a new use case installing RKE2 clusters powered with Cilium by Azure Cloud. The requirement at hand was to use a Rancher instance and from there start deploying RKE2 clusters. I found that the official Rancher documentation has outdated instructions for pre-configuring Azure Cloud.
In today's blog post, we will outline the steps to set up Azure cloud-free credits for deploying RKE2 clusters with Cilium. Additionally, we will cover any limitations that come with the free credit concept.
