Rancher-compose and Account API Keys

Rancher 1.x
1

Hi,

Can I use rancher-compose with account api key ?

It seems to only work with environment key.

Thanks.

2

You can only use it with an environment API key. It needs to know which environment to launch the services/stacks into.

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3

This will be coming in a future release, and is mainly why account keys are mostly hidden in the UI now.

4

Ok, thanks for this quick answer.

Wait & see.

5

I actually was able to make this work by using an account API key and changing the RANCHER_URL to something slightly different.

For example, with my account API key, I can set RANCHER_URL to be
https://cluster.company.com/v1/projects/1a5/containers
and it then targets the environment with ID “1a5”

6

I started working on a bit of wrapper script that would use an init style configuration script to specify “profiles” with different credentials that I could then use with rancher-compose (Would be awesome if this was built into rancher-compose directly).

I formatted the credentials file after the AWS CLI credentials file and it supports doing a source_profile as well.
That way I can specify 1 account API key and then profiles that inherit it and use a different URL.

7

Any idea when this will get fixed? I just ran into this in my own environmet.

8

I created an issue in Github to track it, but it currently isn’t directly on the roadmap.

We will probably add this support directly for rancher CLI that we are planning.

9

Thanks for the update!