Rancher September 2020 Online Meetup - Rancher 2.5 Preview: GitOps with Fleet Management

This September we will take a look at the new Rancher 2.5 Fleet management feature designed to manage GitOps at scale.

Operating at scale requires taking a programatic infrastructure as code approach to managing Kubernetes clusters. As clusters move out to the edge, assumptions about datacenter grade networking and hardware change dramatically. Fleet management provides a new GitOps method of managing one to one million clusters.

In this meetup we will walk through how an administrator gets started with Fleet registering clusters, configuring cluster groups and wiring up Git repositories. Fleet management can roll out any Kubernetes resource across a group of clusters. This opens up possibilities to manage cluster configuration, cluster updates and application deployments from a centralized place.

In this meetup you will see:

• How to configure cluster groups and tie them to Git repositories
• How to manage Kubernetes policy and
• How to deploy an application across multiple clusters