Add doc to manage huawei cloud provier on Rancher

[mikaelmorvan]

Hi, What would you like to be added:

I'm using RKE (from Rancher) to deploy a Kubernetes cluster on a Huwai cloud cluster (Flexible Engine, Orange Group).

I can deploy a new cluster using the OpenStack cloud provider built in RKE but some specific functionnalities are missing like loadbalancer settings.

The documentation isn't clear enough to explain how to deploy and use the Huawei Cloud Provider, could you please give a detail (step by step ?) way to deploy it ?

Why is this needed:

Can't use specific Huawei Cloud settings for Kubernetes Cluster.

Thanks, Mikaël Morvan

[RainbowMango]

The quick-start-with-local-cluster describes how to run Huawei Cloud Provider on local clusters.

The documentation isn't clear enough to explain how to deploy and use the Huawei Cloud Provider, could you please give a detail (step by step ?) way to deploy it ?

Do you mean you need some description about run provider in a cluster?

[DafuSHI]

Hello Hongcai,

Thank you for your reply. Actually we would like some description how huaweicloud provider works with Rancher. As shown in the guide: https://rancher.com/docs/rke/latest/en/config-options/cloud-providers/openstack/ It mentions how to use openstack provider with Rancher while unfortunatly it can't choose private or public ELB. We would like to use huaweicloud provider to better create ELB resources. Could you help？

[RainbowMango]

Hi @mikaelmorvan, @DafuSHI

Just quickly went through the guide and RKE implementations, I found that RKE provides specific implementations for each provider. You can get the whole support list from here.

So, seems RKE still not support huaweicloud provider for now.

type CloudProvider struct {
    // Name of the Cloud Provider
    Name string `yaml:"name" json:"name,omitempty"`
    // AWSCloudProvider
    AWSCloudProvider *AWSCloudProvider `yaml:"awsCloudProvider,omitempty" json:"awsCloudProvider,omitempty"`
    // AzureCloudProvider
    AzureCloudProvider *AzureCloudProvider `yaml:"azureCloudProvider,omitempty" json:"azureCloudProvider,omitempty"`
    // OpenstackCloudProvider
    OpenstackCloudProvider *OpenstackCloudProvider `yaml:"openstackCloudProvider,omitempty" json:"openstackCloudProvider,omitempty"`
    // VsphereCloudProvider
    VsphereCloudProvider *VsphereCloudProvider `yaml:"vsphereCloudProvider,omitempty" json:"vsphereCloudProvider,omitempty"`
    // CustomCloudProvider is a multiline string that represent a custom cloud config file
    CustomCloudProvider string `yaml:"customCloudProvider,omitempty" json:"customCloudProvider,omitempty"`
}

[Edge94]

Hi,

Yes the huaweicloud provider is not supported by RKE but RKE seems to support custom cloud providers.

They provide this example.

The question is : How can we build and install the huawei cloud provider to be used with RKE ?

For the configuration, I hope something like openstack cloud provider should work.

[Global]
auth-url = xxxx
username = xxxx
password = xxxx
tenant-id = xxxx
domain-name = xxxx
region = xxxx

[LoadBalancer]
subnet-id = xxxx

Thank you for your help.

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[rcarre]

Hi,

Yes the huaweicloud provider is not supported by RKE but RKE seems to support custom cloud providers.

They provide this example.

The question is : How can we build and install the huawei cloud provider to be used with RKE ?

For the configuration, I hope something like openstack cloud provider should work.

[Global]
auth-url = xxxx
username = xxxx
password = xxxx
tenant-id = xxxx
domain-name = xxxx
region = xxxx

[LoadBalancer]
subnet-id = xxxx

Thank you for your help.

Hello @Edge94, the above configuration looks like Rancher in-tree cloud provider, doesn't it ? What about the alternative to trigger cloud-provider-huaweicloud as a Rancher specific external cloud provider instead of cloud-provider-openstack which does not support non-Octavia API compatible Huawei Cloud Load Balancer. Here is an example of such setup.

By the way @RainbowMango, does cloud-provider-huaweicloud plan to support Dedicated Load Balancers ? Thanks for you support.

[RainbowMango]

By the way @RainbowMango, does cloud-provider-huaweicloud plan to support Dedicated Load Balancers ? Thanks for you support.

I'm glad to support the Dedicate Load Balancer, but I'm busy with other stuff, so no plan for it yet.