Rancher 2.1 Documentation
The documentation release for Rancher 2.1 adds the following documentation for new Rancher features.
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Ability to Add Quotas to Projects:
The Resource Quota feature lets you limit the Kubernetes resources available (like CPU and memory) within projects and namespaces.
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The user experience for the pipelines feature has been improved for release v2.1.0. Pipelines also now offers support for GitLab in addition to GitHub.
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Support for Clusters using Windows Nodes Support:
Rancher v2.1.0 introduces support for Windows containers and Windows nodes.
Note: This feature is an experimental feature not yet officially supported by Rancher.
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You now have the ability to drain nodes in your clusters so that you can perform routine maintenence on your nodes without customers experiencing service interruption.
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Keycloak as an Authentication Provider
You can now enable Keycloak as an external authentication provider.
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API Audit Log for the Helm Chart Install:
When installing or upgrading Rancher, you can configure it to log all API requests and responses. Know who made what action and when. With 2.1, we've introduced the ability to turn this on for the HA helm chart install.
Additionally, there have been improvements of how to clean up Kubernetes clusters that have had Rancher deployed on it or have been deployed by Rancher.
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The system-tools utility removes any Rancher components installed on a Rancher Server node. Use this utility before reinstalling Rancher Server to clean up leftover components that may cause interference.