Ever wanted to set up a kubernetes cluster with a scalable and intuitive management dashboard?

I first came across Rancher in one of Techno Tim's Videos about a year ago and it removed a number of barriers to entry in terms of the knowledge required to get up and running.

After working with a single-node deployment for a few months, I decided to try and go to a full K8s deployment when Rancher released support at version 2.5. There are, however, some gotchas in Ranchers own installation guides so this post contains everything you need to go from a fresh Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS installation to a working Rancher cluster on top of native K8s. Read more