Rancher Manager 2.8 for Rancher Prime Operations

Section 1: Course Introduction

• Understand the Course

Section 2: Introduction to Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime

• Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime
• What’s New in Rancher Manager v2.8
• Rancher Manager Architecture
• Access Rancher Manager

Section 3: Cluster Management with Rancher Manager

• Rancher Manager User Interface
• Cluster and Node Agents
• Import an Existing Kubernetes Cluster
• Provision an RKE Cluster on Existing Nodes
• Provision a K3s or RKE2 Cluster on Existing Nodes

Section 4: User Management with Rancher Manager

• User and Group Management
• Roles

Section 5: Cluster and Node Management with Rancher Manager

• RKE Template Configuration
• Node and Cluster Driver Management
• Cloud Credentials Configuration
• Infrastructure Provided Kubernetes Clusters
• Hosted Kubernetes Clusters

Section 6: Application Management with Rancher Manager

• Projects and Namespaces
• Workload Deployment
• Application Repositories in Rancher Manager
• Application Management with Helm
• Quotas

Section 7: Continuous Delivery with Rancher Manager

• Project Fleet
• Continuous Delivery

Section 8: Logging and Monitoring with Rancher Manager

• Deploy Monitoring Stack
• Rancher Manager Logging
• External Logging Services for Grafana

Section 9: Rancher Manager Extensions

• Introduction to Extensions
• Manage Extensions

Section 10: Security Tools with Rancher Manager

• Manage CIS Scans
• Introduction to External Policy Engine and Container Security Products

Section 11: CLI Access for Rancher Manager and Downstream Clusters

• Access Cluster Nodes with ssh
• Access a Downstream Clusters with kubectl
• Rancher Manager API
• Rancher Manager CLI

Section 12: Backup and Restore with Rancher Manager

• Backup Requirements with Rancher Manager
• Downstream Cluster Snapshots
• Upgrade Downstream Clusters
• Restore Downstream Clusters
• Backup and Restore Rancher Manager