# Rancher in Alpine Linux

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-in-alpine-linux/5986>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [March 27, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-in-alpine-linux/5986 "2017-03-27T16:15:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![splazit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@splazit](https://forums.suse.com/u/splazit)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-in-alpine-linux/5986/1 "2017-03-27T16:15:07Z")

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I’m trying to add alpine linux host to the rancher but it seems it could not start up the ipsec container. Has anyone been success with Alpine Linux as a host?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![mdyer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/mdyer/32/3526_2.png) [@mdyer](https://forums.suse.com/u/mdyer)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-in-alpine-linux/5986/2 "2018-05-25T03:02:18Z")

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Same issue here. Alpine is way more locked down that a normal distro, so guessing that there’s an issue with permissions…