In 1st part of this series, we will learn basic concepts of Rancher, and then we will create “Rancher server” using terraform file, also we will learn doing with manuel installation it too. Finally, we will deploy Rancher into cluster in Rancher server and examine the created cluster structure. We will do it all step by step.

In 2nd part of this article: “Deploying microservices java application to the cluster created with Rancher using Helm”.

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