6 Rancher Turtles #
See Rancher Turtles documentation at https://turtles.docs.rancher.com/turtles/v0.11
Rancher Turtles is a Kubernetes Operator that provides integration between Rancher Manager and Cluster API (CAPI) with the aim of bringing full CAPI support to Rancher
6.1 Key Features of Rancher Turtles #
Automatically import CAPI clusters into Rancher, by installing the Rancher Cluster Agent in CAPI provisioned clusters.
Install and configure CAPI controller dependencies via the CAPI Operator.
6.2 Rancher Turtles use in SUSE Edge #
The SUSE Edge stack provides a helm wrapper chart which installs Rancher Turtles with a specific configuration that enables:
Core CAPI controller components
RKE2 Control Plane and Bootstrap provider components
Metal3 (Chapter 9, Metal3) infrastructure provider components
Only the default providers installed via the wrapper chart are supported - alternative Control Plane, Bootstrap and Infrastructure providers are not currently supported as part of the SUSE Edge stack.
6.3 Installing Rancher Turtles #
Rancher Turtles may be installed by following the Metal3 Quickstart (Chapter 1, BMC automated deployments with Metal3) guide, or the ATIP Management Cluster (Chapter 33, Setting up the management cluster) documentation.