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How to determine the Rancher Leader pod in Rancher v2.x

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Environment

- SUSE Rancher 2.7.x
- SUSE Rancher 2.8.x
- SUSE Rancher 2.9.x

Situation

During troubleshooting it may be useful to know which of the Rancher server pods, running as part of the rancher Deployment in the cattle-system namespace, is the current leader, and this article details the steps to determine this.

 

Resolution

To find the Rancher leader pod use either of the following ways : 

 From Rancher UI : 

       1. Navigate to the Rancher local cluster 
       2. Click the More Resources on left side menu.
       3. Under the Coordination section -> select Leases
       4. Locate the cattle-controllers Lease, under the kube-system namespace.
       5. Expand the spec section and note the current leader pod name in the holderIdentity field.

From kubectl shell : 

     -  Execute the below script from the rancher local cluster kubectl shell : 

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rancherlabs/support-tools/master/troubleshooting-scripts/determine-leader/rancher2_determine_leader.sh | sh

Disclaimer

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  • Document ID:000020056
  • Creation Date: 06-May-2021
  • Modified Date:02-Aug-2024
    • SUSE Rancher

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