Rancher (Cluster manager)

cd /home/myusername/docker/

mkdir -p kubernetes/rancher && cd kubernetes/rancher

nano docker-compose.yml

version: "3.8"

services:
  rancher:
    image: rancher/rancher:latest
    container_name: rancher
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 9100:80
      - 9101:443
    environment:
      - SERVER_NAME=server_name_here # Example: 192.168.1.100 or rancher.arcadeparty.lan
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - ./data:/var/lib/rancher
      - ./config:/etc/rancher
      - ./logs:/var/log/rancher

Helm (Package manager)

The following commands are meant for Debian/Ubuntu Please visit the helm website if you need to install helm on a different system https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/

curl https://baltocdn.com/helm/signing.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/helm.gpg > /dev/null

sudo apt install apt-transport-https --yes

echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/helm.gpg] https://baltocdn.com/helm/stable/debian/ all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/helm-stable-debian.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install helm

Configure Helm

1. Bitnami: This is a popular chart repository that contains a wide variety of charts that are well-maintained and are generally considered to be production-ready.

helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami