Introduction to Fleet, K3s, and Rancher - Hands-on Deployment and Management

Dive into a comprehensive live session exploring Fleet, k3s, and Rancher with Bastian Hofmann, Field Engineer at Rancher. Learn about Fleet's GitOps capabilities for managing large-scale cluster deployments, and discover k3s, a lightweight yet fully compliant Kubernetes distribution. Explore hands-on demonstrations including single-node and multi-node k3s installations, Rancher management features, cluster upgrades, integrated monitoring, and GitOps workloads using Fleet. Gain practical insights into these powerful tools for efficient container orchestration and management at scale.

- Holding screen
- Introductions
- Slides What is Rancher, Fleet, k3s
- Starting to gets hands on - a look at our hardware
- Installing single-node k3s on our first machine
- Installing and playing with Rancher
- Upgrading k3s clusters with Rancher
- Installing a multi-node / HA k3s cluster with etcd
- Using the Rancher integrated monitoring
- GitOps workloads with Fleet
- Recap