Tag "Rancher"

Ship Rancher API Audit Logs from AKS clusters

As reader of my blog you know we are using Rancher logging app. While we migrated the Rancher (Upstream) cluster from RKE to AKS, we cannot use the built in log collection and shipping for audit logs.

OPA Gatekeeper and issue while doing a cluster restore

We recently encountered a huge problem, when using OPA Gatekeeper in a Rancher cluster and performing a restore of this cluster

Manage AlertmanagerConfigs in Rancher Projects using Terraform

When using Prometheus monitoring stack, Alertmanager is an essential part of the monitoring, while responsible to send alerts. I explain here how I manage, the respective configuration using Terraform.

Manage Rancher Projects in Terraform

While working on managing our Rancher clusters is the management of Rancher projects. I want to talk about the approach I have taken, which may be useful to you as well.

What is Open Policy Agent (OPA) and OPA Gatekeeper

I finally caught up on our clusters to have a look at the replacement of the pod security policies which haven been deprecated and it's possible successor/replacement.

Manage Terraform with Atlantis in a restricted environment

While we started to use Terraform to manage our Rancher clusters, we started to manually run the terraform commands. This is not the way to go, so we started to look into solutions, starting with Atlantis.

Import a Rancher apps and Kubernetes manifest into Terraform

While initially setting up our Rancher clusters manually, we started to use Terraform, which simplifies the management of the clusters tremendously.

Testing webhooks with webhooks.site in an air-gapped environment

As a reader of my blog you are aware that at my employer we are using Rancher and MS Teams for alerting. Unfortunately this was not working properly, so I had to start debugging.

Deploy RHACS with Rancher fleet

In my last post I talked about Rancher fleet, as a next step we will manage RHACS with fleet.

Fleet, the GitOps tool embedded in Rancher

There are a lot of different GitOps solution out in the field. But when you are using Rancher, you already have one at hand. As a Rancher user, I had a look what it is and how it works

Rancher 2.5.x v2 logging using splunk

Installing and configuring logging with Rancher is quite easy, but in combination with Splunk some guidance might be helpful. I guide you trough the process of the complete installation and configuration

Rancher 2.5.x monitoring and alerting with MS Teams

Installing monitoring and configuration with Rancher is quite easy, but in combination wit alerting for MS Teams some guidance might be helpful. I guide you trough the process of the complete installation and configuration

Upgrade istio, monitoring and logging from Rancher 2.4.x. to 2.5.x

While we are using Rancher 2.5.x our current cluster management solution, we actually still are using the old istio- and monitoring-stack v1 rather than v2. We want to change that but it is not as easy as we thought.