# Runnning only on clouds?
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/runnning-only-on-clouds/10351
**Category:** General
**Created:** [May 9, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/runnning-only-on-clouds/10351 "2018-05-09T05:44:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@itman](https://forums.suse.com/u/itman)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/runnning-only-on-clouds/10351/1 "2018-05-09T05:44:42Z")
Hi there, a newbie question: do I need a cloud to connect to in order to create and run nodes OR can I just define local machines (being already e.g. in openstack) and tell rancher 2 to use these to use as resources for the nodes to be created in rancher 2?
If this option is not there, will it be implemented in the future?
cheers
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### Author:  [@vincent](https://forums.suse.com/u/vincent)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2018, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/runnning-only-on-clouds/10351/2 "2018-05-09T07:43:43Z")
Arbitrary existing machines is the “custom” option. You install a supported version of Docker on the node and then run the registration command/agent container we provide.
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### Author:  [@itman](https://forums.suse.com/u/itman)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/runnning-only-on-clouds/10351/3 "2018-05-14T05:55:20Z")
Hi Vincent,
thanks, but I am still lost (sorry, rancher is new for me).
Do you have a step-by-step guide on this? E.g. I do not find the ‘registration command/agent container’.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ramiroluz](https://forums.suse.com/u/ramiroluz)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/runnning-only-on-clouds/10351/4 "2018-07-12T18:24:14Z")
I believe that it is the command displayed during cluster creation.
Step 9 of Create Cluster -\> [https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/quick-start-guide/](https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/quick-start-guide/)
“9 . Copy the command displayed on screen to your clipboard.”
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### Author:  [@Gui](https://forums.suse.com/u/Gui)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/runnning-only-on-clouds/10351/5 "2018-07-13T23:08:38Z")
Hi @itman
We use Rancher 2.0 on-premise. We have used Ceph, Openstack and Rancher+Kubernetes. Nowadays We are in homologation state and I believe that on production soon.
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