K3s, the lightweight- certified Kubernetes distribution created by Rancher Labs, has become a popular choise for IoT and edge computing. But Rancher users have been asking for tighter integration between Rancher Server and K3s. With Rancher 2.4, new Rancher HA installations can be installed on K3s clusters with external SQL databases. This setup simplifies cluster administration with no need to operate etcd. Management of the database can be offloaded to hosted solutions like RDS running MySQL. In this Kubernetes Master Class, Rancher Software Engineers will discuss and demo the new K3s support in Rancher, review use cases and best practices.

This is the recording of the virtual launch event for the GA launch of the CNCF project Longhorn. When combined with Rancher, Longhorn provides DevOps teams with a lightweight, reliable cloud-native management and storage orchestration platform for any Kubernetes environment. Originally created by Rancher as an open source project in 2017, Longhorn was donated to the CNCF in 2019 as a sandbox project. On May 28, Longhorn will reach ‘General Availability’ status, providing the cloud-native ecosystem with lightweight and reliable persistent storage solution for Kubernetes.

This is the recording of the special global meetup to celebrate the GA launch of the CNCF project Longhorn. When combined with Rancher, Longhorn provides DevOps teams with a lightweight, reliable cloud-native management and storage orchestration platform for any Kubernetes environment.

This presentation ran at the DevOps Institute skilUP Day event on May 21, 2020. If Kubernetes exists to make your life easier, why is it such a nightmare to use? There are a million and one presentations on how to use Kubernetes in your DevOps workflow, but they all start from a flawed foundation. They all assume that you wanted to use Kubernetes in the first place. In the shiny world where Kubernetes is King, we are its subjects, forced to use it and smile while we grit our teeth.

If you are or your organization is running Kubernetes, then it's likely that you are running more than one cluster. This model works well for most, but starts to break down when microservices and service mesh enter the discussion. However, with some additional configuration and tooling , a multicluster mesh can take advantage of distributed Kubernetes environments and the services therein. In this Master Class, recorded on June 20, 2020, Rancher Field Engineer Jason Skrzypek discusses and demos a multi-cluster service mesh running Istio.

Windows containerization efforts continue to grow and deploying workloads on a hybrid Kubernetes cluster might soon be in your future. Rancher fully supports creating and managing Windows Clusters today and we would like to show you how it could look like within your organization.

How do you make sure your clusters are up to date and running the right version of your releases and policies? Doing this by hand can be very hard and time consuming. GitOps helps to solve this issue by allowing you to operationalize your Git repos and ensure that what you have in Git is what is being deployed to your clusters regardless of where they are.

Today we're launching the inaugural course of the new Rancher Academy: Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1. In this course you'll learn and demonstrate the skills to install Rancher, install downstream Kubernetes clusters, and interact with them from the perspective of a user and an operator. The course ends with a final assessment, and when you pass, you'll receive a certificate from Rancher Labs that will help you advance your career.

In this meetup Rancher founder Darren Shepherd joins Bill Maxwell, Jacob Blain Christen, and Thorsten Klein as they show the current state of K3s, K3c, and K3d and discuss the future of these powerful projects.

This is the video of the master class from May 07, 2020, where Tigera presented a class on enabling more effective Kubernetes troubleshooting with Rancher.