Rancher deploys an agent on each node to communicate with the node. This pages describes the options that can be passed to the agent. To use these options, you will need to Create a Cluster with Custom Nodes and add the options to the generated docker run command when adding a node.

General options

Parameter Environment variable Description
--server CATTLE_SERVER The configured Rancher server-url setting which the agent connects to
--token CATTLE_TOKEN Token that is needed to register the node in Rancher
--ca-checksum CATTLE_CA_CHECKSUM The SHA256 checksum of the configured Rancher cacerts setting to validate
--node-name CATTLE_NODE_NAME Override the hostname that is used to register the node (defaults to hostname -s)
--label CATTLE_NODE_LABEL Add node labels to the node. For multiple labels, pass additional --label options. (--label key=value)
--taints CATTLE_NODE_TAINTS Add node taints to the node. For multiple taints, pass additional --taints options. (--taints key=value:effect)

Role options

Parameter Environment variable Description
--all-roles ALL=true Apply all roles (etcd,controlplane,worker) to the node
--etcd ETCD=true Apply the role etcd to the node
--controlplane CONTROL=true Apply the role controlplane to the node
--worker WORKER=true Apply the role worker to the node

IP address options

Parameter Environment variable Description
--address CATTLE_ADDRESS The IP address the node will be registered with (defaults to the IP used to reach 8.8.8.8)
--internal-address CATTLE_INTERNAL_ADDRESS The IP address used for inter-host communication on a private network

Dynamic IP address options

For automation purposes, you can’t have a specific IP address in a command as it has to be generic to be used for every node. For this, we have dynamic IP address options. They are used as a value to the existing IP address options. This is supported for --address and --internal-address.

Value Example Description
Interface name --address eth0 The first configured IP address will be retrieved from the given interface
ipify --address ipify Value retrieved from https://api.ipify.org will be used
awslocal --address awslocal Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4 will be used
awspublic --address awspublic Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4 will be used
doprivate --address doprivate Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/interfaces/private/0/ipv4/address will be used
dopublic --address dopublic Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/interfaces/public/0/ipv4/address will be used
azprivate --address azprivate Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance/network/interface/0/ipv4/ipAddress/0/privateIpAddress?api-version=2017-08-01&format=text will be used
azpublic --address azpublic Value retrieved from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance/network/interface/0/ipv4/ipAddress/0/publicIpAddress?api-version=2017-08-01&format=text will be used
gceinternal --address gceinternal Value retrieved from http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/network-interfaces/0/ip will be used
gceexternal --address gceexternal Value retrieved from http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/network-interfaces/0/access-configs/0/external-ip will be used
packetlocal --address packetlocal Value retrieved from https://metadata.packet.net/2009-04-04/meta-data/local-ipv4 will be used
packetpublic --address packetlocal Value retrieved from https://metadata.packet.net/2009-04-04/meta-data/public-ipv4 will be used