#!/usr/bin/env bash set -Eeuo pipefail ######################################## # Arch Linux Rancher Management Cluster # RKE2 + Rancher + optional Longhorn # # PURPOSE # - Replaces kubeadm with RKE2 so Rancher sits on a Rancher-native distro # - Creates a dedicated management cluster # - Installs Rancher in a way that fits Rancher lifecycle management better # - Optionally installs Longhorn for persistent volumes # # IMPORTANT # - Use a REAL DNS name for RANCHER_HOSTNAME # - This script is for the Rancher management cluster itself # - Create/import downstream clusters from Rancher afterward # - Avoid running general app workloads on this local Rancher cluster ######################################## # ---------- User-configurable defaults ---------- # RKE2 / Kubernetes RKE2_CHANNEL="${RKE2_CHANNEL:-stable}" RKE2_VERSION="${RKE2_VERSION:-v1.34.5+rke2r1}" RKE2_TOKEN="${RKE2_TOKEN:-}" CLUSTER_CIDR="${CLUSTER_CIDR:-192.168.0.0/16}" SERVICE_CIDR="${SERVICE_CIDR:-10.43.0.0/16}" CLUSTER_DNS="${CLUSTER_DNS:-10.43.0.10}" CNI_PLUGIN="${CNI_PLUGIN:-canal}" # canal | calico | cilium | flannel DISABLE_RKE2_INGRESS="${DISABLE_RKE2_INGRESS:-true}" # Rancher INSTALL_RANCHER="${INSTALL_RANCHER:-true}" RANCHER_HOSTNAME="${RANCHER_HOSTNAME:-}" # REQUIRED, e.g. rancher.example.com RANCHER_NAMESPACE="${RANCHER_NAMESPACE:-cattle-system}" RANCHER_CHART_VERSION="${RANCHER_CHART_VERSION:-2.13.4}" RANCHER_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD="${RANCHER_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD:-}" RANCHER_REPLICAS="${RANCHER_REPLICAS:-1}" RANCHER_TLS_SOURCE="${RANCHER_TLS_SOURCE:-rancher}" # rancher | letsEncrypt | secret RANCHER_PRIVATE_CA="${RANCHER_PRIVATE_CA:-false}" LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL="${LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL:-}" # ingress-nginx INSTALL_INGRESS_NGINX="${INSTALL_INGRESS_NGINX:-true}" INGRESS_NAMESPACE="${INGRESS_NAMESPACE:-ingress-nginx}" INGRESS_CLASS_NAME="${INGRESS_CLASS_NAME:-nginx}" # cert-manager INSTALL_CERT_MANAGER="${INSTALL_CERT_MANAGER:-true}" CERT_MANAGER_NAMESPACE="${CERT_MANAGER_NAMESPACE:-cert-manager}" CERT_MANAGER_CHART_VERSION="${CERT_MANAGER_CHART_VERSION:-v1.18.3}" # Longhorn INSTALL_LONGHORN="${INSTALL_LONGHORN:-true}" LONGHORN_NAMESPACE="${LONGHORN_NAMESPACE:-longhorn-system}" LONGHORN_CHART_VERSION="${LONGHORN_CHART_VERSION:-1.11.0}" LONGHORN_DEFAULT_REPLICA_COUNT="${LONGHORN_DEFAULT_REPLICA_COUNT:-1}" # Helm INSTALL_HELM="${INSTALL_HELM:-true}" HELM_VERSION="${HELM_VERSION:-v3.18.4}" # Misc ALLOW_SCHEDULING_ON_SERVER="${ALLOW_SCHEDULING_ON_SERVER:-true}" REAL_USER="${SUDO_USER:-root}" REAL_HOME="$(getent passwd "${REAL_USER}" | cut -d: -f6 || true)" REAL_HOME="${REAL_HOME:-/root}" REAL_KUBECONFIG_DIR="${REAL_HOME}/.kube" # ---------- Logging ---------- log() { echo echo "============================================================" echo "[INFO] $*" echo "============================================================" } warn() { echo echo "[WARN] $*" >&2 } die() { echo echo "[ERROR] $*" >&2 exit 1 } # ---------- Helpers ---------- require_root() { [[ "${EUID}" -eq 0 ]] || die "Run as root: sudo ./rancher_rke2_management_install.sh" } require_cmd() { command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "Required command not found: $1" } retry() { local attempts="${1:-10}" local sleep_seconds="${2:-5}" shift 2 || true local n=1 until "$@"; do if (( n >= attempts )); then return 1 fi warn "Command failed (attempt ${n}/${attempts}): $*" sleep "${sleep_seconds}" ((n++)) done } helm_repo_add_force() { local name="$1" local url="$2" if helm repo list 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR>1 {print $1}' | grep -qx "${name}"; then helm repo add "${name}" "${url}" --force-update >/dev/null else helm repo add "${name}" "${url}" >/dev/null fi } kubectl_ns_apply() { local ns="$1" kubectl create namespace "${ns}" --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f - } write_file_if_changed() { local path="$1" local tmp tmp="$(mktemp)" cat > "${tmp}" if [[ -f "${path}" ]] && cmp -s "${tmp}" "${path}"; then rm -f "${tmp}" return 0 fi install -D -m 0644 "${tmp}" "${path}" rm -f "${tmp}" } # ---------- Validation ---------- validate_inputs() { if [[ "${INSTALL_RANCHER}" == "true" && -z "${RANCHER_HOSTNAME}" ]]; then die "RANCHER_HOSTNAME must be set to a real DNS name, e.g. rancher.example.com" fi if [[ "${INSTALL_RANCHER}" == "true" && -z "${RANCHER_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD}" ]]; then RANCHER_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD="$(openssl rand -base64 24 | tr -d '\n' | tr '/+' 'AB' | cut -c1-20)" fi if [[ "${INSTALL_RANCHER}" == "true" && "${RANCHER_TLS_SOURCE}" == "letsEncrypt" && -z "${LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL}" ]]; then die "LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL must be set when RANCHER_TLS_SOURCE=letsEncrypt" fi if [[ -z "${RKE2_TOKEN}" ]]; then RKE2_TOKEN="$(openssl rand -hex 32)" fi } # ---------- Step 1: base packages ---------- install_base_packages() { log "Installing required Arch packages" pacman -Sy --noconfirm --needed \ curl tar gzip jq openssl unzip wget \ iptables nftables conntrack-tools socat ethtool \ iproute2 ca-certificates gnupg bash-completion \ open-iscsi nfs-utils cni-plugins systemctl enable --now iscsid || true } # ---------- Step 2: disable swap ---------- disable_swap() { log "Disabling swap" swapoff -a || true if [[ -f /etc/fstab ]]; then cp /etc/fstab "/etc/fstab.bak.$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)" sed -ri '/\sswap\s/s/^/# /' /etc/fstab fi } # ---------- Step 3: kernel modules / sysctl ---------- configure_kernel_networking() { log "Configuring kernel modules and sysctl" write_file_if_changed /etc/modules-load.d/rke2.conf <<'EOF' overlay br_netfilter nf_conntrack EOF modprobe overlay modprobe br_netfilter modprobe nf_conntrack || true write_file_if_changed /etc/sysctl.d/90-rke2.conf <<'EOF' net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 1 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 1 fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 8192 fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 1048576 vm.max_map_count = 262144 EOF sysctl --system } # ---------- Step 4: firewall note ---------- handle_firewall() { log "Checking for firewalld" if systemctl list-unit-files 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^firewalld\.service'; then if systemctl is-enabled firewalld >/dev/null 2>&1 || systemctl is-active firewalld >/dev/null 2>&1; then warn "firewalld appears enabled/active. RKE2 docs warn that firewalld conflicts with the default Canal networking stack." warn "Disabling firewalld on this node." systemctl disable --now firewalld || true fi fi } # ---------- Step 5: install Helm ---------- install_helm() { [[ "${INSTALL_HELM}" == "true" ]] || return 0 log "Installing Helm ${HELM_VERSION}" local tmpdir arch tmpdir="$(mktemp -d)" arch="$(uname -m)" case "${arch}" in x86_64) arch="amd64" ;; aarch64) arch="arm64" ;; *) die "Unsupported architecture for Helm: ${arch}" ;; esac curl -fsSL -o "${tmpdir}/helm.tar.gz" \ "https://get.helm.sh/helm-${HELM_VERSION}-linux-${arch}.tar.gz" tar -xzf "${tmpdir}/helm.tar.gz" -C "${tmpdir}" install -m 0755 "${tmpdir}/linux-${arch}/helm" /usr/local/bin/helm rm -rf "${tmpdir}" helm version } # ---------- Step 6: install RKE2 ---------- install_rke2() { log "Installing RKE2 ${RKE2_VERSION}" export INSTALL_RKE2_CHANNEL="${RKE2_CHANNEL}" export INSTALL_RKE2_METHOD="tar" export INSTALL_RKE2_VERSION="${RKE2_VERSION}" curl -sfL https://get.rke2.io | sh - } # ---------- Step 7: configure RKE2 ---------- configure_rke2() { log "Writing /etc/rancher/rke2/config.yaml" mkdir -p /etc/rancher/rke2 local node_ip node_name node_ip="$(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}')" node_name="$(hostname -s)" cat >/etc/rancher/rke2/config.yaml <> /etc/rancher/rke2/config.yaml echo ' - rke2-ingress-nginx' >> /etc/rancher/rke2/config.yaml fi } # ---------- Step 8: start RKE2 ---------- start_rke2() { log "Starting rke2-server" systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable --now rke2-server log "Waiting for RKE2 server to become active" retry 60 5 systemctl is-active --quiet rke2-server || { journalctl -u rke2-server --no-pager -n 200 || true die "rke2-server did not start successfully" } export PATH="/var/lib/rancher/rke2/bin:${PATH}" export KUBECONFIG=/etc/rancher/rke2/rke2.yaml log "Waiting for Kubernetes API" retry 60 5 kubectl get nodes >/dev/null 2>&1 || { kubectl get pods -A || true journalctl -u rke2-server --no-pager -n 200 || true die "Kubernetes API did not become ready" } } # ---------- Step 9: configure kubectl for root and real user ---------- configure_kubeconfig() { log "Configuring kubeconfig" mkdir -p /root/.kube cp -f /etc/rancher/rke2/rke2.yaml /root/.kube/config chmod 600 /root/.kube/config if [[ -n "${REAL_HOME}" && -d "${REAL_HOME}" ]]; then mkdir -p "${REAL_KUBECONFIG_DIR}" cp -f /etc/rancher/rke2/rke2.yaml "${REAL_KUBECONFIG_DIR}/config" chown -R "${REAL_USER}:${REAL_USER}" "${REAL_KUBECONFIG_DIR}" chmod 600 "${REAL_KUBECONFIG_DIR}/config" else warn "Could not determine invoking user's home directory; skipping user kubeconfig setup" fi } # ---------- Step 10: allow scheduling on single-node server if requested ---------- allow_server_scheduling() { if [[ "${ALLOW_SCHEDULING_ON_SERVER}" == "true" ]]; then log "Removing control-plane scheduling taints for single-node use" kubectl taint nodes --all node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane- || true kubectl taint nodes --all node-role.kubernetes.io/master- || true fi } # ---------- Step 11: wait for core system ---------- wait_for_core_system() { log "Waiting for core system pods" retry 60 5 kubectl -n kube-system rollout status deployment/coredns --timeout=15s || true kubectl get nodes -o wide echo kubectl get pods -A } # ---------- Step 12: install ingress-nginx ---------- install_ingress_nginx() { [[ "${INSTALL_INGRESS_NGINX}" == "true" ]] || return 0 log "Installing ingress-nginx" helm_repo_add_force ingress-nginx https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx helm repo update kubectl_ns_apply "${INGRESS_NAMESPACE}" helm upgrade --install ingress-nginx ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx \ --namespace "${INGRESS_NAMESPACE}" \ --create-namespace \ --set controller.kind=DaemonSet \ --set controller.hostNetwork=true \ --set controller.dnsPolicy=ClusterFirstWithHostNet \ --set controller.service.type=ClusterIP \ --set controller.ingressClass="${INGRESS_CLASS_NAME}" \ --set controller.ingressClassResource.name="${INGRESS_CLASS_NAME}" \ --set controller.ingressClassResource.default=true \ --set controller.watchIngressWithoutClass=true \ --set controller.reportNodeInternalIp=true \ --wait \ --timeout 20m kubectl -n "${INGRESS_NAMESPACE}" rollout status daemonset/ingress-nginx-controller --timeout=20m } # ---------- Step 13: install cert-manager ---------- install_cert_manager() { [[ "${INSTALL_CERT_MANAGER}" == "true" ]] || return 0 [[ "${INSTALL_RANCHER}" == "true" ]] || return 0 [[ "${RANCHER_TLS_SOURCE}" != "secret" ]] || return 0 log "Installing cert-manager" helm_repo_add_force jetstack https://charts.jetstack.io helm repo update kubectl_ns_apply "${CERT_MANAGER_NAMESPACE}" helm upgrade --install cert-manager jetstack/cert-manager \ --namespace "${CERT_MANAGER_NAMESPACE}" \ --create-namespace \ --version "${CERT_MANAGER_CHART_VERSION}" \ --set crds.enabled=true \ --wait \ --timeout 20m kubectl -n "${CERT_MANAGER_NAMESPACE}" rollout status deployment/cert-manager --timeout=20m kubectl -n "${CERT_MANAGER_NAMESPACE}" rollout status deployment/cert-manager-cainjector --timeout=20m kubectl -n "${CERT_MANAGER_NAMESPACE}" rollout status deployment/cert-manager-webhook --timeout=20m } # ---------- Step 14: install Rancher ---------- install_rancher() { [[ "${INSTALL_RANCHER}" == "true" ]] || return 0 log "Installing Rancher" echo "${RANCHER_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD}" >/root/rancher-bootstrap-password.txt chmod 600 /root/rancher-bootstrap-password.txt helm_repo_add_force rancher-stable https://releases.rancher.com/server-charts/stable helm repo update kubectl_ns_apply "${RANCHER_NAMESPACE}" local -a rancher_args=( --namespace "${RANCHER_NAMESPACE}" --create-namespace --version "${RANCHER_CHART_VERSION}" --set hostname="${RANCHER_HOSTNAME}" --set bootstrapPassword="${RANCHER_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD}" --set replicas="${RANCHER_REPLICAS}" --set ingress.ingressClassName="${INGRESS_CLASS_NAME}" --set ingress.tls.source="${RANCHER_TLS_SOURCE}" --wait --timeout 30m ) if [[ "${RANCHER_PRIVATE_CA}" == "true" ]]; then rancher_args+=( --set privateCA=true ) fi if [[ "${RANCHER_TLS_SOURCE}" == "letsEncrypt" ]]; then rancher_args+=( --set letsEncrypt.email="${LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL}" ) fi helm upgrade --install rancher rancher-stable/rancher "${rancher_args[@]}" kubectl -n "${RANCHER_NAMESPACE}" rollout status deployment/rancher --timeout=30m if kubectl -n "${RANCHER_NAMESPACE}" get deployment rancher-webhook >/dev/null 2>&1; then kubectl -n "${RANCHER_NAMESPACE}" rollout status deployment/rancher-webhook --timeout=30m fi if kubectl -n "${RANCHER_NAMESPACE}" get deployment cattle-cluster-agent >/dev/null 2>&1; then kubectl -n "${RANCHER_NAMESPACE}" rollout status deployment/cattle-cluster-agent --timeout=30m || true fi } # ---------- Step 15: install Longhorn ---------- install_longhorn() { [[ "${INSTALL_LONGHORN}" == "true" ]] || return 0 log "Installing Longhorn" systemctl enable --now iscsid || true helm_repo_add_force longhorn https://charts.longhorn.io helm repo update kubectl_ns_apply "${LONGHORN_NAMESPACE}" helm upgrade --install longhorn longhorn/longhorn \ --namespace "${LONGHORN_NAMESPACE}" \ --create-namespace \ --version "${LONGHORN_CHART_VERSION}" \ --set defaultSettings.defaultReplicaCount="${LONGHORN_DEFAULT_REPLICA_COUNT}" \ --wait \ --timeout 30m kubectl -n "${LONGHORN_NAMESPACE}" get pods } # ---------- Step 16: validation ---------- validate_install() { log "Validation" kubectl get nodes -o wide echo kubectl get pods -A echo kubectl get ingress -A || true echo kubectl get sc || true if [[ "${INSTALL_RANCHER}" == "true" ]]; then echo kubectl -n "${RANCHER_NAMESPACE}" get all || true fi if [[ "${INSTALL_LONGHORN}" == "true" ]]; then echo kubectl -n "${LONGHORN_NAMESPACE}" get all || true fi } # ---------- Step 17: save useful info ---------- save_cluster_info() { log "Saving useful cluster information" mkdir -p /root/rancher-install-artifacts cat >/root/rancher-install-artifacts/README.txt <