• Vagrant: Vagrant is required as this is used to provision the machine based on the Vagrantfile.
  • At least 4GB of free RAM.
  • Vagrant will require plugins to create VirtualBox VMs. Install them with the following commands:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

  1. Clone to a folder using git clone https://github.com/rancher/quickstart.

  2. Optional: Edit config.yaml to:

    • Change the password of the admin user for logging into Rancher. (default_password)
  3. To initiate the creation of the environment run, .

  4. Once provisioning finishes, go to https://172.22.101.101 in the browser. The default user/password is admin/admin.

What’s Next?

Use Rancher to create a deployment. For more information, see .

  1. From the quickstart/vagrant folder execute vagrant destroy -f.

  2. Wait for the confirmation that all resources have been destroyed.