Automated Racher Deploy

Rancher 2.x
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Hi Guys,

I’m trying to create a pipeline to recreate all my environment from Jenkins, but the initial Rancher installation needs to setup a password and them create a API Key to use the API to import a cluster created with RKE tool.

There is a way to do the initial setup, password and URL, and API key creation form API?

There is a documentation on how to do it?

Tks.

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Hi,

There is a way to pass the admin initial password and Rancher endpoint URL via ENV vars when starting Rancher?

This will be very helpful when we are automating the Rancher deploy.

Thanks.

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Hi!

This https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/15477 and this https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/13271 with some ideas from here https://gist.github.com/superseb/c363247c879e96c982495daea1125276

Solved my problem.

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Have a look in the Rancher quick start guides. There are example API calls for both.

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Thanks, but I’ve solved the problem using the information on the links i’ve put on my thread. If I know about this Quick Start repo before it would be handful.

Regards.

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Does this help - https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/faq/technical/#how-can-i-reset-the-admin-password

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@ amioranza care to share more details about your approach on this? I have a slew of shell scripts that call the rancher api and rancher cli in order to provision a cluster in a existing rancher server.

Not really happy with the shell script approach at this point, so curious on how your approach looks.

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I have shell scripts using curl too, but I run it via Jenkins pipeline. That pipeline have other steps where I use Terraform, Chef and RKE to provision the servers(kubernetes cluster and rancher server) and the final steps is to setup the Rancher and import the new cluster created by RKE.

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@amioranza & @jeremyweber-np, I had setup an HA cluster with RKE using terraform, rancher API, CLI & shell scripts. But when I am trying to add the custom clusters on top of local cluster, I am frequently getting into this issue:

When I get into this scenario, I had to remove the nodes, the cluster and retry from scratch.

May I know if you have encountered this issue in your setup?

Thanks,
Sarma K