Install Rancher on a Harvester node (not in a VM)

I was wondering if it is possible to install Rancher in a Harvester node?
Not in a VM but at the top level Kubernetes ?

This seems like a no-brainer to me. The k3s cluster is already there. Having to setup BareMetal > k3s > vm > k3s > Rancher is bonkers.

I hope they consider supporting the install-rancher-into-the-harvester-k3s-cluster configuration.

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Did anyone end up trying this?
I’m going to go ahead and try this now, just wondering if there’s any obvious reasons not to do this.

TLDR; don’t try to install rancher over harvester today

Yeah so I tried to install Rancher over the top of the Harvester cluster with helm and it didn’t really go well. Harvester reuses names/components from Rancher.

This is what Harvester sets up out of the box, but I don’t think this is actually a working Rancher setup:

The node information if it’s useful to anyone:

Why do you need this way?

BareMetal > OS > K3s > Rancher is the simplest way.

Am I missing something here?