OpenTofu: RKE2 Cluster with Cilium on Azure
· 11 min read
DevOps Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems
Introduction
In a previous post, we covered how to create an RKE2 cluster on Azure Cloud using the cloud-free credits from the Rancher UI. As this is a convenient approach to get started with Rancher, in today's post, we will demonstrate how to use OpenTofu to automate the deployment.
OpenTofu is a fork of Terraform. It is an open-source project, community-driven, and managed by the Linux Foundation. If you want to get familiar with what OpenTofu is and how to get started, check out the link here.
Additionally, we will demonstrate how easy it is to customise the Cilium configuration and enable kube-vip for LoadBalancer services from the HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) definition.
