Training Agenda

Rancher

Rancher is a Kubernetes management platform that provides a single control plane for operating multiple clusters — whether they're K3s on edge devices, RKE2 on-premises, or managed Kubernetes in any cloud. It adds fleet-wide GitOps with Rancher Fleet, centralized RBAC, monitoring, and a cluster provisioner that works across on-prem and cloud providers. This training covers Rancher setup, cluster management, and Fleet-based GitOps deployments.

1–2 days On-site, remote, or hybrid Up to 20 participants German or English
What We Cover
One control plane, many clusters
Day 1

Rancher Architecture & Cluster Management

  • Rancher server installation: Single node vs HA with RKE2 — choosing the right deployment model
  • Cluster import vs cluster provisioning: When to use each approach and how they differ operationally
  • Downstream cluster management: Namespaces, projects, quotas — multi-team isolation within clusters
  • User management: Local users, AD/LDAP/SAML integration — connecting to enterprise identity providers
  • RBAC: Cluster roles, project roles, custom role templates — least-privilege access across the fleet
  • Rancher Monitoring: Deploying the Prometheus + Grafana stack with one click and customizing dashboards
  • Catalog and Helm charts in Rancher App Market: Deploying applications through the built-in marketplace
Day 2

Rancher Fleet & GitOps

  • Fleet architecture: Fleet controller, clusters, cluster groups — the GitOps management model
  • fleet.yaml: Bundle definition, targeting by label selector — how Fleet decides where to deploy
  • Deploying Helm charts and raw manifests via Fleet: GitOps for both Helm-based and plain YAML workloads
  • Multi-cluster rollout strategies: Canary, staged, all-at-once — controlled progressive delivery
  • Secret management across clusters: Handling secrets safely in a multi-cluster GitOps workflow
  • Drift detection and reconciliation: How Fleet detects and corrects out-of-sync cluster state
  • Fleet in CI/CD: Automated deployment pipelines triggering Fleet bundle updates
Learning Outcomes
What your team walks away with

End-to-end Rancher operations — from setting up the management plane to rolling out workloads across a fleet of clusters via GitOps.

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Works well as a standalone training or combined with K3s and Docker for a complete lightweight Kubernetes stack.

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