Feature: Multi Node / Multi Cluster Support

Hi,

I’m a huge fan of k3d as it allows to create multiple clusters as well as multiple nodes in that cluster. It would be nice if something similar would be possible using the WSL2 and rancher-desktop as well.

I currently use the k3d with the following parameters:

docker create volume mycluster-data
k3d cluster create mycluster \
        -a 2 \
        -i docker.io/rancher/k3s:v1.19.9-k3s1 \
        -p 80:80@loadbalancer -p443:443@loadbalancer \
        --registry-use k3d-registry \
        -v mycluster-data:/data

This means that for easier usage, all nodes share the /data volume. So to speak a “NFS” and are able to use a custom registry.

So it would be nice to have this options in rancher-desktop as well.

[jandubois]

@Issif That you for showing your use-cases. For the near-future, you will need to use k3d to run these.

We are aiming to be able to run k3d with just Rancher Desktop in the next release (probably with some limitations regarding volume mounts).

[Issif]

Hello, here my use-cases which need multi-nodes:

• ensure affinity works for avoiding to run several pods on same nodes
• run tests with replicated databases accross nodes (I’m trying to do so with rqlite on a k8s)