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<a href="/pages-for-subheaders/set-up-clusters-from-hosted-kubernetes-providers">hosted Kubernetes clusters</a> or <a href="/pages-for-subheaders/use-new-nodes-in-an-infra-provider">nodes in an infrastructure provider</a> to allow Rancher to deploy and manage Kubernetes.</p><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="rancher-drivers">Rancher Drivers<a class="hash-link" href="#rancher-drivers" title="Direct link to heading">​</a></h3><p>With Rancher drivers, you can enable/disable existing built-in drivers that are packaged in Rancher. Alternatively, you can add your own driver if Rancher has not yet implemented it.</p><p>There are two types of drivers within Rancher:</p><ul><li><a href="#cluster-drivers">Cluster Drivers</a></li><li><a href="#node-drivers">Node Drivers</a></li></ul><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="cluster-drivers">Cluster Drivers<a class="hash-link" href="#cluster-drivers" title="Direct link to heading">​</a></h3><p>Cluster drivers are used to provision <a href="/pages-for-subheaders/set-up-clusters-from-hosted-kubernetes-providers">hosted Kubernetes clusters</a>, such as GKE, EKS, AKS, etc.. The availability of which cluster driver to display when creating a cluster is defined based on the cluster driver&#x27;s status. Only <code>active</code> cluster drivers will be displayed as an option for creating clusters for hosted Kubernetes clusters. By default, Rancher is packaged with several existing cluster drivers, but you can also create custom cluster drivers to add to Rancher.</p><p>By default, Rancher has activated several hosted Kubernetes cloud providers including:</p><ul><li><a href="/pages-for-subheaders/amazon-eks-permissions">Amazon EKS</a></li><li><a href="/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/set-up-clusters-from-hosted-kubernetes-providers/gke">Google GKE</a></li><li><a href="/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/set-up-clusters-from-hosted-kubernetes-providers/aks">Azure AKS</a></li></ul><p>There are several other hosted Kubernetes cloud providers that are disabled by default, but are packaged in Rancher:</p><ul><li><a href="/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/set-up-clusters-from-hosted-kubernetes-providers/alibaba">Alibaba ACK</a></li><li><a href="/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/set-up-clusters-from-hosted-kubernetes-providers/huawei">Huawei CCE</a></li><li><a href="/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/set-up-clusters-from-hosted-kubernetes-providers/tencent">Tencent</a></li></ul><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="node-drivers">Node Drivers<a class="hash-link" href="#node-drivers" title="Direct link to heading">​</a></h3><p>Node drivers are used to provision hosts, which Rancher uses to launch and manage Kubernetes clusters. A node driver is the same as a <a href="https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Docker Machine driver</a>. The availability of which node driver to display when creating node templates is defined based on the node driver&#x27;s status. Only <code>active</code> node drivers will be displayed as an option for creating node templates. By default, Rancher is packaged with many existing Docker Machine drivers, but you can also create custom node drivers to add to Rancher.</p><p>If there are specific node drivers that you don&#x27;t want to show to your users, you would need to de-activate these node drivers.</p><p>Rancher supports several major cloud providers, but by default, these node drivers are active and available for deployment:</p><ul><li><a href="/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/launch-kubernetes-with-rancher/use-new-nodes-in-an-infra-provider/create-an-amazon-ec2-cluster">Amazon EC2</a></li><li><a href="/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/launch-kubernetes-with-rancher/use-new-nodes-in-an-infra-provider/create-an-azure-cluster">Azure</a></li><li><a href="/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/launch-kubernetes-with-rancher/use-new-nodes-in-an-infra-provider/create-a-digitalocean-cluster">Digital Ocean</a></li><li><a href="/pages-for-subheaders/vsphere">vSphere</a></li></ul><p>There are several other node drivers that are disabled by default, but are packaged in Rancher:</p><ul><li><a href="/explanations/integrations-in-rancher/harvester#harvester-node-driver/">Harvester</a>, available in Rancher v2.6.1</li></ul></div><footer class="theme-doc-footer docusaurus-mt-lg"><div class="theme-doc-footer-edit-meta-row row"><div class="col"><a href="https://github.com/rancher/rancher-docs/edit/main/docs/pages-for-subheaders/about-provisioning-drivers.md" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="theme-edit-this-page"><svg fill="currentColor" height="20" width="20" viewBox="0 0 40 40" class="iconEdit_eYIM" aria-hidden="true"><g><path d="m34.5 11.7l-3 3.1-6.3-6.3 3.1-3q0.5-0.5 1.2-0.5t1.1 0.5l3.9 3.9q0.5 0.4 0.5 1.1t-0.5 1.2z m-29.5 17.1l18.4-18.5 6.3 6.3-18.4 18.4h-6.3v-6.2z"></path></g></svg>Edit this page</a></div><div class="col lastUpdated_vbeJ"><span class="theme-last-updated">Last updated<!-- --> on <b><time datetime="2022-09-23T17:11:24.000Z">9/23/2022</time></b></span></div></div></footer></article><nav class="pagination-nav docusaurus-mt-lg" aria-label="Docs pages navigation"><a class="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--prev" href="/how-to-guides/advanced-user-guides/authentication-permissions-and-global-configuration/manage-role-based-access-control-rbac/locked-roles"><div class="pagination-nav__sublabel">Previous</div><div class="pagination-nav__label">Locked Roles</div></a><a class="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--next" href="/how-to-guides/advanced-user-guides/authentication-permissions-and-global-configuration/about-provisioning-drivers/manage-cluster-drivers"><div class="pagination-nav__sublabel">Next</div><div class="pagination-nav__label">Cluster Drivers</div></a></nav></div></div><div class="col col--3"><div class="tableOfContents_bqdL thin-scrollbar theme-doc-toc-desktop"><ul class="table-of-contents table-of-contents__left-border"><li><a href="#rancher-drivers" class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Rancher Drivers</a></li><li><a href="#cluster-drivers" class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Cluster Drivers</a></li><li><a href="#node-drivers" class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Node Drivers</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div></main></div></div><footer class="footer footer--dark"><div class="container container-fluid"><div class="footer__bottom text--center"><div class="footer__copyright">Copyright © 2022 SUSE Rancher. 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