"Rancher Fleet for Scalable GitOps Deployments"
"Rancher Fleet for Scalable GitOps Deployments" is a comprehensive, practitioner-focused guide designed for engineers, operators, and platform architects seeking to master large-scale GitOps automation. This book demystifies GitOps principles and showcases how Rancher Fleet stands apart as a powerful orchestrator for distributed Kubernetes clusters in complex enterprise environments. Readers are guided through the architectural fundamentals of Fleet, its integration into modern workflows, and a comparative analysis with alternative GitOps tools, all while addressing the unique challenges of scale, security, and operational consistency.
Delving into practical implementation, the book covers every phase of the Fleet lifecycle, from initial installation, bootstrapping, and cluster onboarding to sophisticated automation, multi-cluster management, and security. Expertly structured chapters highlight real-world patterns—such as structuring source repositories, designing reusable bundles, and building secure, compliant, and multi-tenant GitOps platforms. Each section is rich with actionable insights on promotion pipelines, declarative automation, policy compliance, disaster recovery, and robust system upgrades, supporting continuous, high-availability deployment pipelines in demanding production estates.
Going beyond foundational practices, the book features advanced integrations, extensibility topics, and detailed incident response strategies. Through illustrative field-tested case studies and real-world operational stories from enterprises, readers gain a rare perspective into optimizing for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, minimizing costs, and establishing internal developer platforms. Comprehensive coverage of observability, troubleshooting, future trends, and anti-pattern avoidance rounds out this indispensable reference, enabling teams to unlock the full promise of GitOps-driven platform engineering with Rancher Fleet.
