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For the purpose of the test we have deployed a rancher server with terraform. Stack we used:

Rancher -> deployment on Amazon AWS

The aws folder contains terraform code to stand up a single Rancher server instance with a 1 node cluster attached to it.

You will need the following:

This terraform setup will:

Start an Amazon AWS EC2 instance running rancher/rancher version specified in rancher_version
Create a custom cluster called cluster_name
Start count_agent_all_nodes amount of AWS EC2 instances and add them to the custom cluster with all roles

Clone this repository and go into the aws subfolder
Move the file terraform.tfvars.example to terraform.tfvars and edit (see inline explanation)
Run terraform init
Run terraform apply

When provisioning has finished you will be given the url to connect to the Rancher Server

To remove the EC2's that have been deployed run terraform destroy --force

Start count_agent_all_nodes amount of AWS EC2 Instances and add them to the custom cluster with all role
Start count_agent_etcd_nodes amount of AWS EC2 Instances and add them to the custom cluster with etcd role
Start count_agent_controlplane_nodes amount of AWS EC2 Instances and add them to the custom cluster with controlplane role
Start count_agent_worker_nodes amount of AWS EC2 Instances and add them to the custom cluster with worker role

can be done by defining autoscaling rules at the cluster level that will deploy new nodes in the infrastructure without human intervention (see https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster-autoscaler)