1. Update CHANGELOG.md

RKE2 Installation

The Raptor team heavily leverages Ansible of part of their infrastructure. Rancher maintains an Ansible playbook to install RKE2 that we will use in both the EDN and Raptor environments. This playbook exists as a git submodule in the top level rke2-ansible folder.

If needed, create an inventory file for the environment that you are working in:

cp -R rke2-ansible/inventory/sample infra/ansible/inventory/<<EDN|raptor>>

Update the inventory file with IP addresses/hostnames as per the environment.

In the EDN and Raptor environments, a custom ansible.cfg file is needed in order for the playbook to be able to run:

[defaults]
home=/tmp/${USER}/.ansible
remote_tmp=/tmp/${USER}/ansible

When calling a playbook manually, the ansible.cfg file in the infra/ansible needs to be referenced in some way. The easiest way is to export it as an environmental variable. From the root of the repo, run:

export ANSIBLE_CONFIG=$(pwd)/infra/ansible/ansible.cfg

Alternatively, a make target exits to deploy RKE2 to the EDN:

make rke2-install

The rke2-install make target will update the rke2-ansible git submodule imported into this repo and download the latest RKE2 tarballs and place them in <<repo-root>>/rke2-ansible/tarball_install. This location is where the Ansible playbook will look for the install media in order to perform an air gap install.

UDS Bundle Raptor

The Raptor UDS Bundle is a packaging of components to provide a Kubernetes Secure Runtime for an on-premise environment.

Prerequisites

• UDS CLI brew install uds or download direct from GitHub

Create

Switch into the rke2-bundle directory:

cd rke2-bundle

Then create the bundle:

uds create .

Deploy

The create step writes a UDS bundle to disk that needs to be referenced in the deploy step:

uds deploy uds-bundle-raptor-uds-amd64-x.y.z.tar.zst

Remove

uds remove uds-bundle-raptor-uds-amd64-x.y.z.tar.zst