How to start and activate Rancher environment

How to start and activate Rancher environment

Target Jenkins pipeline: Link

Aim: Spin up automatically scaled down Rancher environment

 

Epilogue: *** Starting from Oct 24, 2024  All Rancher environments will be excluded from auto start action inside "managePods" pipeline i.e. to make environment up & running manual interaction is a MUST. 

INFO:

  • Scaling down schedule: Link

  • Time zone: UTC i.e. all schedules are in UTC time zone

How to start Rancher environment:

PARAMETER

VALUE

REQUIRED

PARAMETER

VALUE

REQUIRED

CLUSTER

List of clusters

true

NAMESPACE

List of namespaces

true

ACTION

start | default value

true

P.S. ***IGNORE ALL OF THE REST PARAMETERS***

 

EXAMPLE OF STARTING SAMPLE RANCHER ENVIRONMENT:

  • Select all 3 required parameters

  • Click on "BUILD" button at the bottom of Jenkins pipeline page

  • Wait until job execution is complete

 

 

How to monitor job status:

  • Review Console Output

If Green Checkmark appeared, then pipeline execution successfully complete.

Check, Verify & Validate target environment.

Information, how to construct environment URLs, please visit this page: Link

In case of any issue, please report via Slack Channel.

How to exclude environment from auto shutdown list:

(CAUTION: THIS IS ONE TIME OPERATION, SETTINGS ARE NOT PERMENANT, i.e. if target date passed, on the next cycle environment will be automatically included into the list)

 

P.S. ***IGNORE ALL OF THE REST PARAMETERS***

PERIOD:

parameter defines for how long target environment will be excluded from auto shutdown process, possible values: night (upcoming i.e. DO NOT shutdown tonight), weekend (upcoming i.e. DO NOT shutdown on this weekend)

 

       PARAMETER

              VALUE

              REQUIRED

       PARAMETER

              VALUE

              REQUIRED

CLUSTER

List of clusters

true

NAMESPACE

List of namespaces

true

PERIOD

night || weekend

true

SUSPEND

checkmark 

true

 

EXAMPLE of parameters selection to suspend auto shutdown for tonight:

  • select all required 4 parameters

  • click on "BUILD" button at the bottom of Jenkins pipeline page

  • wait until job execution is complete

 

Direct Link on Rancher UI