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End-to-End Kubernetes with Rancher, RKE2, K3s, Fleet, Longhorn, and NeuVector

The full journey from nothing to production

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Table of Contents

Preface

Who This Guide is For

What You Will Learn

About the Author

Join the Community

Your Feedback Matters

How to Use This Guide

General Recommendations

Technical Recommendation…

Setting Up the Foundation

The Infrastructure

The Application

The Container Image

RKE, RKE2, RKE Governmen…

RKE: The Distribution th…

K3s: The Lightweight Kub…

RKE2: The Next Generation

Understanding How K3s an…

Installing and Configuri…

Installing and Configuri…

The RKE2 Bootstrapping P…

Joining an RKE2 Cluster …

Rancher Manager: Adminis…

Regional vs. Hub & Spoke…

Installing and Configuri…

Rancher Dashboard

Understanding How Ranche…

How a Cluster is Imported

Deploying and Managing W…

Deploying Harbor Contain…

Deploying Gitea with Ran…

Deploying and Managing W…

Creating a Namespace

Registries Secrets, Self…

Creating a Deployment

Examining and Troublesho…

Deploying and Managing S…

A ClusterIP for the Depl…

A NodePort for the Deplo…

LoadBalancer Service, Cl…

Creating an Ingress Serv…

Deploying and Managing S…

Exposing SSH Services: I…

Network Policies using R…

GitOps with Fleet: When …

GitOps: A Philosophy and…

Why Choose Fleet? ... An…

Fleet: Augmenting Ranche…

The Architecture of Fleet

Understanding the Fleet …

Using Fleet for GitOps W…

Deploying Applications w…

Fleet: Multi-Tenant Clus…

Cluster Groups: Logical …

Workspaces: Isolating Re…

Managing Multi-User/Team…

GitRepoRestrictions: A G…

Longhorn: The Distribute…

What is Longhorn?

When to Use Longhorn?

Key Features of Longhorn

Longhorn: Requirements &…

Installation & Configura…

Longhorn: Understanding …

Using Longhorn Storage C…

Core Components: Longhor…

Data Reliability with Re…

Snapshots and Backups

Disaster Recovery Volumes

ReadWriteMany Volumes an…

End-to-end Container Sec…

From a Startup to an Ope…

NeuVector’s Role in Kube…

NeuVector: Automating an…

Installing NeuVector

Compliance and Auditing

Vulnerability Management

The Network Activity Das…

Groups and Policies: Dis…

Security Policy as Code …

DLP Sensors: Protecting …

WAF: Web Application Fir…

Response Rules: Active E…

Cluster Management in Ra…

Imported Clusters (Non-R…

Rancher-Launched Cluster…

Cloud-Managed Clusters

Creating a Rancher-launc…

Rancher Disaster Recover…

What is a Snapshot?

Best Practices for Clust…

Certificate and Encrypti…

Certificate Rotation

Encryption Key Rotation

Rancher Drivers for Clus…

Rancher Agents: Cattle C…

Autoscaling RKE2 Cluster…

Cluster Autoscaler: Dyna…

Installing and Configuri…

Other Autoscaling Tools

Rancher Extensions

Afterword

Metadata

Author(s): Aymen El Amri (eon01)

Created: November 27, 2025

Last Updated: November 27, 2025

Author's Progress: 100%

Version: v4

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