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title: Port Requirements
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To operate properly, Rancher requires the following ports to be open on your nodes. During creation of clusters using a cloud service (like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean), Rancher opens these ports for you.

The following diagram displays the basic port requirements for Rancher. If you need more detail, refer to the tables below.

![Basic Port Requirements]({{< baseurl >}}/img/rancher/port-communications.png)

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