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This section includes the Kubernetes installation using RKE2 and other components of Rancher Prime.
Rancher Prime supports Kubernetes clusters running on Ubuntu, CentOS, Oracle Linux, SLES, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For information about the supported operating systems, Docker, and Rancher Prime versions, see the Rancher Support Matrix.
At the time of solution validation, we used the latest version of Rancher Prime, v2.7.1, and RKE2 release 2, along with Kubernetes v1.24 and SLES15 SP4.