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Rancher Single Node Setup

Setup VM (or Machine)​

From console:

  • Install Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (Jammy)

    • LVM Storage
    • OpenSSH
    • Install Minimal Server Packages
    • No Extra Packages

  • Install && Setup Tailscale (VPN)

    curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/jammy.noarmor.gpg \
      | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/tailscale-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
    curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/jammy.tailscale-keyring.list \
      | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tailscale.list
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install tailscale
    systemctl enable tailscaled
    systemctl start tailscaled
    sudo tailscale up
    tailscale ip -4

  • VM Snapshot (tailscale is very slow to install)

From Remote SSH Terminal:

  • Install Docker, Docker-Compose, Tmux, Curl, and Vim sudo apt-get install docker.io docker-compose tmux curl vim

  • Setup Docker

    systemctl enable docker
    systemctl start docker
    sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami)

  • Setup

    • Remote User SSH Key Configuration
    • pam_ssh_agent_auth

  • Set secure randomly generated password

  • VM Snapshot

  • Reboot

  • Pull Rancher: docker pull rancher/rancher:latest

  • Run Rancher First Time:

    docker run -d --rm \
      -p 8080:80 \
      -p 8443:443 \
      -v $(pwd)/host/certs:/container/certs \
      -e SSL_CERT_DIR="/container/certs" \
      -v $(pwd)/var/log/rancher/auditlog:/var/log/auditlog \
      -e AUDIT_LEVEL=1 \
      -e CATTLE_TLS_MIN_VERSION="1.2" \
      -v $(pwd)/opt/rancher:/var/lib/rancher \
      --privileged \
      rancher/rancher:latest \
      --no-cacerts