Take Rancher to the Next Level: Build a Production-Ready Kubernetes Platform

If you're a Platform Engineer, DevOps pro, or SRE looking to take your Kubernetes game to the next level, this is the video you've been waiting for.

In this demo-driven session, I walk you through using Rancher as a powerful Kubernetes control plane that simplifies and accelerates your platform operations. Learn how to:

→ Seamlessly integrate LDAP for user authentication and access control
→ Deploy Longhorn for persistent storage with just a few clicks
→ Stand up Grafana, Prometheus, and InfluxDB for full-stack observability
→ Run all of it on dynamic VMs inside VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
→ Effortlessly upgrade Kubernetes versions and scale worker nodes in minutes

Whether you're managing production workloads or leveling up your home lab, this video shows you how to build a fully operational Kubernetes platform that’s production-ready and enterprise-aligned.

Get inspired. Get hands-on. Get operationally mature.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:52 Review of environment
3:35 Pre-deployed Kubernetes Clusters
5:50 LDAP Configuration
9:52 Grafana & Prometheus Configuration
14:17 Grafana & Prometheus Installation
14:43 Grafana Dashboards
15:47 Longhorn VM Spec Review
17:06 Longhorn Installation
23:14 Longhorn Scale-Out Cluster Operation
26:20 Longhorn Storage Policies
27:16 Creating Namespaces
29:02 Adding InfluxDB Helm Repo
29:54 InfluxDB Installation
34:38 Kubernetes Cluster Upgrade
36:58 Video Wrap-Up

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