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Setting Up the DigitalOcean Cloud Provider for RKE2

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

When running RKE2 on DigitalOcean, Kubernetes requires cloud provider integration to:

Automatically provision Load Balancers
Manage persistent storage with Block Storage
Assign floating IPs to nodes and services

The DigitalOcean Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) enables Kubernetes to manage these cloud resources efficiently.

This guide covers: ✅ Why the DigitalOcean cloud provider is needed
✅ Configuring a DigitalOcean API token
✅ Setting up networking for RKE2
✅ Deploying the DigitalOcean Cloud Controller Manager

Ingress NGINX Controller on DOKS: Retirement, Gateway API, and Traefik

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

This page used to describe Ingress NGINX on DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS). Ingress NGINX is now retired, and DOKS ships a managed Gateway API implementation, so the known good design has changed.

Provisioning an RKE2 Cluster in DigitalOcean via Rancher

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

This guide demonstrates how to add DigitalOcean cloud credentials in Rancher and use them to provision an RKE2 cluster in DigitalOcean (DO).