MicroK8s Rancher AWX Setup

This is the process I used to get a Microk8s cluster with Rancher and AWX going.

Cluster Creation

As of today you can not run Rancher on Microk8s 1.30.x you need to install a version prior to 1.29.2

sudo snap install microk8s --classic --channel=1.28/stable
sudo microk8s enable metallb storage cert-manager ingress
sudo microk8s add-node

Your output will be different

Example:

From the node you wish to join to this cluster, run the following:

sudo microk8s join 192.168.1.44:25000/dc08961950a386667d29ef345354637/af6c07a6b78e

Verify cluster is created and ready

sudo microk8s kubectl get node

NAME        STATUS   ROLES    AGE     VERSION
microk8s3   Ready    <none>   6h11m   v1.28.7
microk8s2   Ready    <none>   6h12m   v1.28.7
microk8s1   Ready    <none>   6h23m   v1.28.7

Rancher Creation

Rancher Installation

sudo microk8s helm3 repo add rancher-latest https://releases.rancher.com/server-charts/latest
sudo microk8s helm3 repo update
sudo microk8s kubectl create namespace cattle-system
sudo microk8s helm3 install rancher rancher-latest/rancher --namespace cattle-system  --set replicas=1 --set hostname=rancher.<domain.com>

Verify Rancher has finished installing

sudo microk8s kubectl -n cattle-system rollout status deploy/rancher

show Rancher pods

sudo microk8s kubectl get pods -n cattle-system

show all pods

sudo microk8s kubectl get pods --all-namespaces

Add Loadbalancer config

sudo microk8s kubectl expose deployment rancher -n cattle-system --type=LoadBalancer --name=rancher-lb --port=443
sudo microk8s kubectl describe services

Access the page by going to https://rancher.yourdomain.com/

Rancher install documentation

AWX Operator Creation

sudo apt install git
sudo apt install make
sudo git clone https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator.git
sudo cd awx-operator
sudo git checkout 0.15.0

export NAMESPACE=awx
sudo make deploy

Create awx.yaml deployment file

---
apiVersion: awx.ansible.com/v1beta1
kind: AWX
metadata:
  name: awx
spec:
  service_type: LoadBalancer
  loadbalancer_port: 8443
  loadbalancer_protocol: https

Set default context to awx-namespace

sudo kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=awx

Deploy AWX and expose the service

sudo kubectl apply -f awx.yaml

Monitor the deployment process

sudo kubectl logs -f deployments/awx-operator-controller-manager -c awx-manager

When deployment is done, ensure all pods are running

sudo kubectl get pods

Create admin account

sudo kubectl get pods
sudo kubectl exec --container awx-web -it awx-manage createsuperuser

Some info taken from Jamey Steinmann’s Blog

Add the loabalancer IP through ranchers interface

Hope this helps you out!