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HomeLab – Deployment of an HA Kubernetes cluster (Part 6 – Rancher UI prerequisites)

Select an IP and an FQDN for Rancher UI and create and entry on your local DNS rancher.example.com 10.10.10.159 Load Balancer Use the ACME plugin in pfsense to request and add a certificate for rancher. Then we go to our pfsense and configure one more Virtual IP like we did in part 3 Click on …

HomeLab – Deployment of an HA Kubernetes cluster (Part 3 – Load Balancer – pfsense configuration)

pfsense is a free network firewall software with capabilities envied by its commercial counterparts. The load balancing mechanism is provided by a plugin called HAProxy In this configuration we have deployed two pfsense VMs, one on ESXi1 and one on ESXi2 and configured them in HA. On a previous part we made a note of …