# Rancher v3 api for creating cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\ **Created:** [March 7, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-v3-api-for-creating-cluster/13561 "2019-03-07T09:44:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amol\_Shende](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Amol\_Shende](https://forums.suse.com/u/Amol_Shende)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-v3-api-for-creating-cluster/13561/1 "2019-03-07T09:44:02Z")
Hi, I want to create empty cluster and them import kube-cluster in it via rancher apis, I am not able to find it’s api reference. Can someone please point me in right direction? ---
**Author:** ![amioranza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/amioranza/32/3053_2.png) [@amioranza](https://forums.suse.com/u/amioranza)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-v3-api-for-creating-cluster/13561/2 "2019-03-07T23:25:55Z")
Maybe you can find the answers you need on this thread: > [@Automated Racher Deploy](http://forums.suse.com/t/automated-racher-deploy/12079): > > Hi Guys, I’m trying to create a pipeline to recreate all my environment from Jenkins, but the initial Rancher installation needs to setup a password and them create a API Key to use the API to import a cluster created with RKE tool. There is a way to do the initial setup, password and URL, and API key creation form API? There is a documentation on how to do it? Tks. Regards. ---
**Author:** ![Amol\_Shende](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Amol\_Shende](https://forums.suse.com/u/Amol_Shende)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 5:19am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-v3-api-for-creating-cluster/13561/3 "2019-03-08T05:19:34Z")
@amioranza Thanks for quick reply !