feat: Rancher Fleet multi-cluster deployment for EdgeKit#5
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- Add fleet.yaml for Rancher Fleet multi-cluster GitOps deployment (central clusters get the broker; edge clusters get the agent) - Add helm/edgekit/values-server.yaml for central cluster (server only, NodePort 31883/31901) - Add helm/edgekit/values-client.yaml for edge cluster (client only, external broker URL) - Extend helm/edgekit/values.yaml with server.service.nodePorts - Update server-service.yaml template to emit nodePort fields when service type is NodePort - Add docs/rancher.md: full Rancher / k3s deployment guide - Update README.md and docs/quickstart.md with Rancher section
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feat: Rancher Fleet multi-cluster deployment for EdgeKit
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@copilot Update as per new branch and updated codebase
…r topology - Merge origin/copilot/integrate-edgex-platform (EdgeX Foundry 4.0 integration) - Resolve conflicts in fleet.yaml, values-server.yaml, values-client.yaml: use valuesFiles references and LoadBalancer service type from base branch - Fix cross-cluster broker URL placeholder (was in-cluster DNS, now CENTRAL_LB_IP_OR_HOSTNAME) in values-client.yaml and values-thin-client.yaml - Add NodePort alternative comment to values-server.yaml for bare-metal k3s - Update docs/rancher.md: three cluster roles (central/edge/edge-thin), LoadBalancer as primary with NodePort fallback, thin-client section - Update README.md Rancher section: add edge-thin cluster type, fix commands - Update docs/quickstart.md: reference three cluster roles
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EdgeKit needs to run across two cluster tiers in a SUSE Rancher environment: the MQTT broker on a central k3s cluster and edge agents on individual k3s edge nodes (e.g. ARK-1222 on SL Micro 6.2).
Rancher Fleet GitOps
fleet.yamlat repo root — Fleet deploys broker vs. agent based on cluster labels:edgekit/role=central→ server only, NodePort exposededgekit/role=edge→ client only, pointed at central node IPSplit Helm values
values-server.yaml— central cluster: server enabled, client disabled,NodePortservice on 31883 (MQTT) / 31901 (WS)values-client.yaml— edge cluster: server disabled, client enabled with external broker URL placeholderHelm chart changes
values.yaml— addsserver.service.nodePorts.{mqtt,ws}(empty by default, auto-allocated when blank)server-service.yaml— conditionally emitsnodePort:fields only whentype: NodePortand a port value is set; ClusterIP rendering is unchangedDocs
docs/rancher.md— full deployment guide: Fleet GitOps setup, manual install, LoadBalancer alternative, firewall requirementsREADME.mdanddocs/quickstart.mdupdated with Rancher sections