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· One min read
Hreniuc Cristian-Alexandru

Based on this doc, check here the new versions


# Hetzner
ssh -i ~/.ssh/ansible_noob_id_rsa ansible_noob@SERVER-1
ssh -i ~/.ssh/ansible_noob_id_rsa ansible_noob@SERVER-2

sudo su -
curl -sfL https://get.rke2.io | INSTALL_RKE2_VERSION=v1.22.10+rke2r2 sh -

# For server
systemctl restart rke2-server 

# For agent
systemctl restart rke2-agent
# Check the logs
journalctl -u rke2-server -f
# Errors:
journalctl -u rke2-server | grep -i level=error

journalctl -u rke2-agent -f
journalctl -u rke2-agent | grep -i level=error

# See if pods are restarting or not working
kubectl get pod --all-namespaces

Sometimes you might need to restart the backends, because this might trigger a restart for the vitess, and the backend sometimes doesn't refresh the connection to the db. Check the logs of the backend.

· One min read
Hreniuc Cristian-Alexandru

As stated in these docs: https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.5/en/installation/install-rancher-on-k8s/upgrades/#option-a-upgrading-rancher

sudo snap install helm --classic

Upgrade it:

# To have the same values:
helm get values rancher -n cattle-system -o yaml > rancher_values.yaml

# Add the repo
helm repo add rancher-stable https://releases.rancher.com/server-charts/stable

helm repo update

helm fetch rancher-stable/rancher


helm upgrade rancher rancher-stable/rancher \
  --namespace cattle-system \
  -f rancher_values.yaml \
  --version=2.6.5

If helm upgrade doesn't work we need to delete the rancher and reinstall it, following these steps without the cert-manager:

helm delete rancher -n cattle-system

helm install rancher rancher-stable/rancher \
  --namespace cattle-system \
  -f rancher_values.yaml \
  --version=2.6.5

It should reuse the old configs and so.

Check the pods and logs:

kubectl get pods --namespace cattle-system

kubectl -n cattle-system rollout status deploy/rancher

kubectl logs -f rancher-84696c75d9-62mk4 --namespace cattle-system
# Should check the version
2022/07/01 08:49:27 [INFO] Rancher version v2.6.5 (c4d59fa88) is starting

· 12 min read
Hreniuc Cristian-Alexandru

This document describes all steps that we need to make when we decide to start the production cluster from Hetzner. This contains:

  • server installation
  • database
  • frontend apps
  • backend apps
  • ssl
  • grafana + loki

1 Install servers​

We buy the servers from the clould web interface. For each server we need to do the following steps when buying:

  • Add it to the brandName-net-01 private network(Used to access the nfs storage) In the future, maybe start the cluster on this network.

  • Add it to the brandName-firewall-01 firewall

  • Add it to the brandName-01 placement group(this way they won't end up on the same phisical server, so if one fails the others are still up)

  • Add the public IP to the brandName-firewall-01 fireawall, we have two rules that allow traffic between those servers. This is due to tha fact that we couldn't make it(rke2 cluster, here's smt similar) work on the private addresses.