Rancher Part 4:  Using the Catalog Example with GlusterFS

As promised, it’s time to get to the catalog goodness. Since GlusterFS hasn’t gotten enough love from me lately, it’s time to bring that into the process as part of my Rancher demo. The goal with this exercise is to spin up a GlusterFS environment and to expand it using the built-in capabilities provided by … Read more

Rancher Part 3:  Adding the DockerHub to our Rancher Registry

So far in the series, we’ve covered installing your Rancher instance on Ubuntu, and attaching Rancher to the Docker host on Ubuntu. Next up we want to be able to stretch our wings a bit and add some other container images. Rather than downloading the images individually and having to then work from a local … Read more

Rancher Part 2:  Adding a Docker Host to Rancher

Now that we’ve gotten Rancher up and running from our first post, it’s time to take the next steps and configure our first host. We are going to run Rancher pointing to the same host that we are running Rancher on. That may seem like some sort of Docker inception thing, and definitely not the … Read more

Rancher Part 1:  Installing Rancher and Setting Access Control

If you’re looking towards running Docker, and want a good way to use it with orchestration and a nifty UI, then a great place to get started is by using Rancher. For those who aren’t already familiar, Rancher and RancherOS are two very cool projects that allow a thin OS to easily spin up and … Read more