Rancher Advanced Training
Run Rancher at enterprise scale with Fleet GitOps, HA and DR, hardened security, RKE2 migration and edge and hosted clusters. Learn Rancher through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Rancher levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Rancher Advanced Training.
Understand where Rancher fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Rancher is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Rancher program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Rancher training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Rancher training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Rancher usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Rancher Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Rancher training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Manage Kubernetes with Rancher
Install Rancher and provision, import and manage Kubernetes clusters from one console.
Operate clusters day two
Back up, upgrade, monitor, log and troubleshoot Rancher and downstream clusters.
Scale securely with GitOps
Run HA, hardened, multi-cluster platforms with Fleet, policies and RKE2.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Rancher responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Rancher matters
- Rancher helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Rancher becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Rancher effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Rancher concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Rancher in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Rancher for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Rancher usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Rancher.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: Rancher architecture, RKE, RKE2 and first installDay 1
- Intro to Rancher: multi-cluster Kubernetes management, Rancher Prime vs community edition and current 2.x releases
- Learning the Rancher architecture: Rancher server components, authentication proxy, cluster controllers and agents
- Communication with downstream clusters: cattle-cluster-agent, node agents, tunnels and kubeconfig proxying
- Architectural best practices: a dedicated management cluster, high availability, load balancer and DNS
- Discovering RKE: RKE1 concepts and its end of life, RKE2 and K3s as the current Kubernetes distributions
- Installing RKE: the rke binary, SSH and Docker requirements; installing RKE2 with the install script
- Preparing nodes for Kubernetes: OS requirements, swap, kernel modules, firewall ports and container runtime
- Creating the cluster configuration file: cluster.yml for RKE, config.yaml for RKE2 and node roles
- Certificate options: Rancher self-signed, your own CA, and Let's Encrypt with cert-manager
- Deploying Kubernetes: rke up or starting rke2-server and agents, then retrieving the kubeconfig
- Installing Rancher with Docker: single-node install for development and evaluation
- First login: bootstrap password, server URL, the Rancher dashboard and importing an existing cluster
Essential Level = Foundation + Rancher on Kubernetes, cluster provisioning and workloadsDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Installing Rancher with Kubernetes: deploying into RKE or RKE2 with the Helm chart, cert-manager and TLS options
- Designing and provisioning clusters: where will my cluster live (custom, hosted EKS/AKS/GKE, node driver or imported)
- Cluster constraints: limitations within certain cluster types, node resource requirements, networking and port requirements
- Cluster roles: etcd, control plane and worker roles and how to place them
- Deploying a Kubernetes cluster: RKE configuration options and reusable, centrally managed cluster configurations
- Node drivers and cloud credentials: machine pools, cloud providers and deploying a cluster from the UI
- Deploying and managing workloads: deploy workloads, upgrade workloads and roll back workloads
- Using persistent storage: provisioning storage classes, using persistent volume claims and Longhorn
- Dynamic data: ConfigMaps, Secrets, certificates, registry credentials and resource naming
- Service discovery and load balancing: services in Rancher, layer 4 versus layer 7, LoadBalancer services and Ingress
- The Rancher application catalog: how it works, catalog scope, included global catalogs and Apps today
- Custom catalogs: adding custom catalogs as Helm chart repositories and using catalog apps
- Using the CLI tools: kubectl with Rancher-generated kubeconfig files and the Rancher CLI
Intermediate Level = Essential + Day-two operations, monitoring, projects and troubleshootingDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Day two operations for RKE: secure the installation files, backups and DR with etcd snapshots
- RKE maintenance: upgrading Kubernetes, certificate management and rotation, adding and removing nodes
- Rancher on Docker lifecycle: making backups, restoring from a backup and upgrading Rancher
- Rancher on Kubernetes lifecycle: backups with the rancher-backup operator, restoring and upgrading Rancher with Helm
- Editing clusters: editing cluster options and upgrading Kubernetes from Rancher
- Monitoring: enabling advanced monitoring with rancher-monitoring and using the Grafana dashboards
- Alerting: configuring notifiers and alerts with Alertmanager routes and PrometheusRules
- Logging: configuring logging with the Logging operator, flows and outputs to Elasticsearch, Loki or Splunk
- Namespaces and projects: namespace overview, projects as namespace groups and project security
- Resource quotas and resource limits: project and namespace quotas and default container limits
- Working inside a project: namespace management, project monitoring, project alerts and logging
- Basic troubleshooting: what could go wrong, Rancher's API server, container runtime, node conditions and kubelet
- Advanced troubleshooting: etcd health, control plane components, nginx-proxy and the container network (CNI)
- Access control: authentication providers (LDAP, SAML, OIDC) and global, cluster and project roles
Advanced Level = Intermediate + GitOps, HA, security, migration and multi-cluster scaleDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- GitOps with Fleet: GitRepo resources, bundles, cluster groups and multi-cluster rollouts
- RKE1 to RKE2 migration: planning, moving workloads and replacing Rancher-managed clusters
- High availability Rancher: a three-node RKE2 management cluster, external load balancer and DNS
- Disaster recovery: etcd snapshots to S3, restoring Rancher to a new cluster and DR drills
- Security hardening: CIS benchmark scans, hardened RKE2 profiles and Pod Security Admission
- Policy and runtime security: Kubewarden admission policies and NeuVector container security
- Multi-tenancy at scale: custom roles, project isolation with network policies and tenant onboarding
- Scaling Rancher: managing many downstream clusters, agent tuning and API performance
- Hosted Kubernetes: managing EKS, AKS and GKE lifecycle from Rancher
- Edge clusters: K3s at the edge and Fleet for large fleets of small clusters
- Virtualization: Harvester HCI integration with Rancher for VMs alongside containers
- Final assessment, conclusion and next steps: reviewing every module and planning further learning
- Capstone: build an HA, GitOps-managed, hardened multi-cluster platform with Rancher
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Rancher levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Install RKE2 and Rancher
Prepare Linux nodes, build an RKE2 cluster, install Rancher on it and import a second cluster into the Rancher dashboard.
Provision a cluster and deploy an app
Provision a downstream cluster from Rancher, then deploy a web application with storage, secrets, an Ingress and a Helm chart from the catalog.
Operate a multi-team cluster
Create projects with quotas and roles for two teams, enable monitoring, alerts and logging, take an etcd snapshot and practise a restore.
Build a GitOps multi-cluster platform
Stand up HA Rancher on RKE2, harden clusters with CIS scans and policies, and roll out applications to several clusters with Fleet.
Rancher is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Rancher with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Rancher certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Rancher level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Rancher Advanced Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Rancher path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Rancher Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Rancher level fits your team.
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Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
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