# Rancher Stack for VPS

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-stack-for-vps/20145>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [April 25, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-stack-for-vps/20145 "2021-04-25T22:43:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-stack-for-vps/20145/1 "2021-04-25T22:43:52Z")

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I have been playing around with Rancher, K8 and so on my Hetzner VPS… for a couple of days. Most of it paved with issues regarding networking and connecting to my deployments/nodes through an external-ip.

**What is the easiest way to run and manage docker containers across systems/providers. Specifically which version of Kubernetes (K8/microKube/K3), which load-balancer (metallb/kube-vip) etc.**

Not sure if it matters for the context, but my use-case will mostly revolve around ML-Pipelines and Django applications.

-and as an added bonus, maybe you could fill me in on how to integrate nodes from the big cloud providers (most provide a free node) through this setup.