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Creating an K3s Kubernetes Cluster

You can now provision K3s Kubernetes clusters on top of the Harvester cluster in Rancher v2.6.3+ using the built-in Harvester node driver.

k3s-cluster

Note

  • Harvester K3s node driver is in tech preview.
  • VLAN network is required for Harvester node driver.

Create Your Cloud Credentials

  1. Click ☰ > Cluster Management.
  2. Click Cloud Credentials.
  3. Click Create.
  4. Click Harvester.
  5. Enter your cloud credential name
  6. Select "Imported Harvester" or "External Harvester".
  7. Click Create.

create-harvester-cloud-credentials

Create K3s Kubernetes Cluster

You can create a K3s Kubernetes cluster from the Cluster Management page via the K3s node driver.

  1. Select Clusters menu.
  2. Click Create button.
  3. Toggle Switch to RKE2/K3s.
  4. Select Harvester node driver.
  5. Select a Cloud Credential.
  6. Enter Cluster Name (required).
  7. Enter Namespace (required).
  8. Enter Image (required).
  9. Enter Network Name (required).
  10. Enter SSH User (required).
  11. Click Create.

create-k3s-harvester-cluster

Using Harvester K3s Node Driver in Air Gapped Environment

K3s provisioning relies on the qemu-guest-agent to get the IP of the virtual machine. However, it may not be feasible to install qemu-guest-agent in an air gapped environment.

You can address the installation constraints with the following options:

Option 1. Use a VM image with qemu-guest-agent installed.

Option 2. Configure the cloud init user data to enable the VMs to install qemu-guest-agent via an HTTP(S) proxy.

Example of user data in Harvester node template: 

#cloud-config
apt:
  http_proxy: http://192.168.0.1:3128
  https_proxy: http://192.168.0.1:3128