Creating a Huawei CCE Cluster

You can use Rancher to create a cluster hosted in Huawei Cloud Container Engine (CCE). Rancher has already implemented and packaged the cluster driver for CCE, but by default, this cluster driver is inactive. In order to launch CCE clusters, you will need to enable the CCE cluster driver. After enabling the cluster driver, you can start provisioning CCE clusters.

Prerequisites in Huawei

caution

Deploying to CCE will incur charges.

1. Find your project ID in Huawei CCE portal. See the CCE documentation on how to manage your projects.

2. Create an Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.

Prerequisite in Rancher

You will need to enable the Huawei CCE cluster driver:

1. Click ☰ > Cluster Management.
2. Click Drivers.
3. In the Cluster Drivers tab, go to the Huawei CCE cluster driver and click ⋮ > Activate.

When the cluster driver is finished downloading, you will be able to create Huawei CCE clusters in Rancher.

Limitations

Huawei CCE service doesn’t support the ability to create clusters with public access through their API. You are required to run Rancher in the same VPC as the CCE clusters that you want to provision.

Create the CCE Cluster

1. From the Clusters page, click Create.
2. Click Huawei CCE.
3. Enter a Cluster Name.
4. Use Member Roles to configure user authorization for the cluster. Click Add Member to add users that can access the cluster. Use the Role drop-down to set permissions for each user.
5. Enter Project Id, Access Key ID as Access Key and Secret Access Key Secret Key. Then Click Next: Configure cluster. Fill in the cluster configuration. For help filling out the form, refer to Huawei CCE Configuration.
6. Fill the following node configuration of the cluster. For help filling out the form, refer to Node Configuration.
7. Click Create to create the CCE cluster.

Result:

Your cluster is created and assigned a state of Provisioning. Rancher is standing up your cluster.

You can access your cluster after its state is updated to Active.

Active clusters are assigned two Projects:

• Default, containing the default namespace
• System, containing the cattle-system, ingress-nginx, kube-public, and kube-system namespaces

Huawei CCE Configuration

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If you are editing the cluster in the cluster.yml instead of the Rancher UI, note that cluster configuration directives must be nested under the rancher_kubernetes_engine_config directive in cluster.yml. For more information, refer to the section on the config file structure.

Node Configuration