# High Availability Rancher on Kubernetes

DevFeed: [High Availability Rancher on Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/high-availability-rancher-on-kubernetes-10652.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://technotim.com/posts/rancher-ha-install/>)

Author: Techno Tim

Published: 2020-12-19T14:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Techno Tim](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/techno-tim.md>)

Topics: [rancher](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rancher.md>), [k3s](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/k3s.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tutorial.md>), [Homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/homelab.md>)

Tags: [clusters](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clusters.md>), [gui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gui.md>), [health-check](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/health-check.md>), [helm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/helm.md>), [high-availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/high-availability.md>), [homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/homelab.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [load-balancer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancer.md>), [rancher](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rancher.md>), [ssl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssl.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>)

## AI overview

A step-by-step tutorial for installing Rancher on an existing high-availability k3s Kubernetes cluster. It covers load balancing, Helm, cert-manager, Rancher configuration, the GUI, cluster scaling, and health and liveness checks.

## Source excerpt

Are you running Kubernetes in your homelab or in the enterprise? Do you want an easy way to manage and create Kubernetes clusters? Join me as we walk through installing Rancher on an existing high availability k3s cluster in this step-by-step tutorial. We install Rancher, configure a load balancer, install and configure helm, install cert-manager, configure Rancher, walk through the GUI, scale...