Hi,
I have a debian8 host with rancher on it and then 3 debian8 docker containers as hosts. I had them all turned off and just turned them all back on and while No3 has come up fine saying “active” under hosts 1 and 2 say “disconnected”, how do I fix this please?
This has now happened again after a complete rebuild, so its a common problem?
Are you trying to use docker containers as rancher hosts? I do not think that is a supported configuration. I believe that the rancher hosts need to be either separate physical machines, or at least separate virtual machines.
The docs say I can and its exactly what I have followed. Yes its a dedicated VM, its running docker but nothing else but rancher.
Can you link to the documentation you are referring to?
“Any modern Linux distribution with a supported version of Docker”
and,
http://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v1.6/en/quick-start-guide/
Rancher itself seems to work fine on the vm host, that isnt the issue the problems are communications to the 3 hosts that will do the work.
Meantime I’ve Switched from Debian8 to ubuntu 16 LTS and an external mysql database to see if that makes any difference. I will re-do the 3 hosts as ubuntu 16 LTS as well.
Those refer to using a single host/vm to handle both the Rancher server and a single rancher agent. I do not believe that you can run multiple rancher hosts as containers.
What I would suggest is making 3 or 4 VMs running the rancher services:
VM1: rancher/server (optionally also run rancher/agent on this VM, but not recommended)
VM2: rancher/agent
VM3: rancher/agent
VM4: rancher/agent
Each VM should be a separate ESX/Virtualbox/Qemu VM and not a Docker container.
This is exactly what I have done!
The problem is when I reboot VM2, 3 or 4 then rancher cannot re-connect to them.
Actually my new layout is,
VM1: rancher/server —> external Mariadb
VM2: rancher/agent
VM3: rancher/agent
VM4: rancher/agent
Ok, that was not clear by your initial post. I read your setup as: 1 rancher/server and 3 rancher/agent containers all running on a single VM.
Are all 3 of your agent hosts in the same network, or are they remote? Is there any NAT device or firewall between VM1 and VM2-4?
Yes same subnet, no NAT, no firewall except the one Docker puts up. It all works initially but doesnt survive a reboot.
On the host that does not work, are there any clues in the docker logs?
docker logs <id_of_rancher_agent>I have re-built now so I’ll retest / check if this re-occurs.