Rancher Desktop
9 tutorials and guides tagged Rancher Desktop on IT Wonder Lab, with step-by-step examples and code you can run.
- Docker & Rancher Desktop Tutorials
Docker and Rancher Desktop Troubleshooting: Common Errors and Fixes
Fix common Docker and Rancher Desktop problems: daemon not reachable, ports below 1024, KVM, missing images after switching engines, ImagePullBackOff, disk space.
- Docker & Rancher Desktop Tutorials
Automate Rancher Desktop with rdctl: Settings, Snapshots and Profiles
Use rdctl, the Rancher Desktop command line, to start the app, change engine and Kubernetes, take snapshots, install extensions and create deployment profiles.
- Docker & Rancher Desktop Tutorials
Terraform Docker Provider: Manage Containers and Images as Code
Use the Terraform and OpenTofu Docker provider (kreuzwerker/docker) with Rancher Desktop to manage images, networks, volumes and containers declaratively.
- Docker & Rancher Desktop Tutorials
Push Docker Images from Rancher Desktop to Amazon ECR
Create an Amazon ECR repository with Terraform, log in with the AWS CLI and push images built in Rancher Desktop with docker or nerdctl, for ECS and EKS.
- Docker & Rancher Desktop Tutorials
Convert Docker Compose to Kubernetes: Kompose and Manual Migration
Migrate a Docker Compose app to Kubernetes: generate manifests with Kompose, fix what it cannot convert and deploy to Rancher Desktop with Secrets and Ingress.
- Docker & Rancher Desktop Tutorials
Kubernetes in Rancher Desktop: Run Your Local Images on K3s
Use the Kubernetes cluster of Rancher Desktop: choose the version, run local images without a registry, expose apps with Traefik ingress and port-forward.
- Docker & Rancher Desktop Tutorials
Rancher Desktop: containerd vs dockerd, nerdctl vs Docker CLI
Choose the container engine of Rancher Desktop: containerd with nerdctl or dockerd with the docker CLI. Compare them, switch safely and compare with Docker Desktop.
- Docker & Rancher Desktop Tutorials
How to Install Rancher Desktop on Linux, macOS and Windows
Install Rancher Desktop, the free Docker Desktop alternative, on Linux, macOS and Windows, pick the container engine and run your first container and cluster.
Containers and Orchestration
Rancher Desktop
Rancher Desktop is a free open source app with a container engine (containerd or dockerd) and a local K3s Kubernetes cluster for Linux, macOS and Windows.