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title: Setting up the vSphere Cloud Provider
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In this section, you'll learn how to set up a vSphere cloud provider for a Rancher managed RKE Kubernetes cluster in vSphere.

# In-tree Cloud Provider

To use the in-tree vSphere cloud provider, you will need to use an RKE configuration option. For details, refer to [this page.](./in-tree)

# Out-of-tree Cloud Provider

To set up the out-of-tree vSphere cloud provider, you will need to install Helm charts from the Rancher marketplace. For details, refer to [this page.](./out-of-tree)