How to orchestrate Rancher?

[pureclouds]

Hello!

Thanks for nice platform! It’s very amazing and useful! But I have question - how I can orchestrate rancher installation and configuration/ I want avoid steps in WebUI. It will be great if I could install server, add hosts and install agents there, configure server, add registry and add application by some command line tool.

Is it possible ? may be via API ? Any advise or docs ?

[denise]

This old forum post should help answer what you’re looking to do:

Is there a way to create a digital ocean host programmatically?

This looks fantastic, I am searching to get/create the registration token with my API key in order to automate host provisionning, I can see how it created (https://github.com/rancher/cattle/blob/2face8a72d79888152749820d55b1e220a9e24f5/code/implementation/register/src/main/java/io/cattle/platform/register/util/RegistrationToken.java#L38). I am a bit lost in the Rancher documentation, where is the doc speaking about that? Thanks you very much, Thomas Decaux

[sshipway]

We have creation of Rancher Hosts automated by using CoreOS images under VMWare combined with a cloud-config.yaml. With this, we can simply deploy a new VM from the template and it will start up, start the Rancher agent, and hook itself into the appropriate Environment. A similay cusotmised cloud-config configures and starts up the Rancher server itself. So, we just need to use the VMWare orchestration to deploy new Hosts.