rke2-deployment

# RKE2 Deployment

## Overview

RKE2 (also known as RKE Government) is Rancher's next-generation Kubernetes distribution focused on security and compliance. It deploys a fully conformant Kubernetes cluster using a single binary that manages containerd, kubelet, kube-proxy, and control plane components as static pods. Unlike Kubespray (which orchestrates kubeadm via Ansible), RKE2 is a self-contained installer that handles everything from container runtime to CNI in a single process.