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Rancher CAPI extension

Is rancher/turtles beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, rancher/turtles merged 26 of 28 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 4 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Indexed issues
40
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2d 17h
Merged PRs (30d)
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Dominant language
Go
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
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  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
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  • Remove CAAPF
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    kind/chore kind/cleanup needs-area

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

    rancher/turtles#2848 · 3 comments ·

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  • Bump Kubernetes to v1.37
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/dependency kind/chore kind/cleanup

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    rancher/turtles#2847 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • vsphere NodeAntiAffinity feature gate blocks control-plane VM creation when using RKE2ControlPlane (owner-reference lookup hardcoded to KubeadmControlPlane)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/capv kind/bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rancher/turtles#2841 ·

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  • Backport `rancher/turtles/pull/2768` to `release/v0.25`
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/chart kind/chore

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

    rancher/turtles#2825 ·

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  • Evaluate whether Renovate can be used to bump EKSCTL_VERSION and AWS_IAM_AUTHENTICATOR_VERSION
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/dependency kind/chore

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    rancher/turtles#2785 ·

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  • Documentation for autoscaler functionality with CAPV on vSphere
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/documentation kind/documentation

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    rancher/turtles#2784 ·

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  • Unify chart tests to reduce duplication
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/testing kind/chore

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    rancher/turtles#2781 ·

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  • Allow selecting the Fleet workspace for clusters imported by Turtles
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/import kind/enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    rancher/turtles#2778 · 2 comments ·

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  • Release v0.28.0-rc.0
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/release kind/chore

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rancher/turtles#2773 · 1 comment ·

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  • ci: enable OwnerReferencesPermissionEnforcement
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/capi kind/enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    rancher/turtles#2743 ·

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  • Support overriding provider image name via ClusterctlConfig
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/providers kind/enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    rancher/turtles#2724 ·

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  • [docs] Add documentation for clusterclass change/rollout
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/clusterclass kind/documentation

    Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 68/100

    rancher/turtles#2720 ·

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  • [docs] Rancher cluster must be the CAPI management cluster
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/documentation kind/documentation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    rancher/turtles#2713 ·

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  • Import controller: CAPI cluster can be annotated `imported=true` before the agent manifest is applied, and the import is never retried
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/import kind/bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rancher/turtles#2641 · 5 comments ·

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  • e2e: ensure cluster deletion in after steps
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/ci kind/bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    rancher/turtles#2607 ·

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  • Turtles reporting ProviderUnknown for known upstream providers
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/providers kind/bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rancher/turtles#2436 · 4 comments ·

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  • [CAPD] Use DevMachine and DevCluster
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/capi kind/chore

    rancher/turtles#2407 · 1 assignee ·

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  • e2e: implement OCI fetchConfig coverage for all certified providers
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/testing kind/enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rancher/turtles#2355 · 2 reactions ·

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  • OCI CAPD manifest uses not existing image
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/operator kind/bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rancher/turtles#2352 ·

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  • OCI fetchConfig does not work with provided control-plane-components.yaml
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/operator kind/bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rancher/turtles#2350 · 1 comment ·

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  • [community] Pin providers to the latest patch version of a certified minor version.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/community area/providers kind/enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rancher/turtles#2338 · 3 comments ·

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  • e2e: Improve AWS cleanup job
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/ci kind/enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    rancher/turtles#2284 · 1 comment ·

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  • Switch from ngrok to pangolin
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/testing kind/enhancement QA/None

    rancher/turtles#2283 · 8 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • release: Use labels to categorize changes in release notes
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/release-notes kind/chore

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rancher/turtles#2243 · 2 comments ·

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  • [CAPG]Add examples and documentation for GCP RKE2
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/capg area/documentation area/examples kind/help wanted status/waiting-for-upstream

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

    rancher/turtles#2226 · 2 comments ·

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  • [CAPG] Update all examples to use Cluster credentials
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/capg area/documentation area/examples kind/enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    rancher/turtles#2213 · 1 comment ·

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  • Re-evaluate Updatecli configuration
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/update kind/enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rancher/turtles#2093 ·

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  • [Feature] Toggable `rancher-auto-import`
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/import kind/enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    rancher/turtles#2086 ·

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  • Improve import controller integration tests
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/import kind/refactor

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rancher/turtles#2076 ·

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  • [EPIC] Remove separate Prime/Community builds.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/build-and-release kind/chore

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rancher/turtles#2041 ·

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  • Reconcile Rancher management Cluster
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/import kind/enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    rancher/turtles#2012 ·

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  • Add plain HTTP support for CAPIProvider spec.fetchConfig.oci and overriding default image location according to `system-default-registry` value
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/airgapped kind/enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    rancher/turtles#1983 ·

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  • Fix flakiness in nightly E2E
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/testing kind/tech-debt

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rancher/turtles#1979 · 2 comments ·

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  • Remove ngrok operator from test env
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/testing kind/chore

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

    rancher/turtles#1927 · 1 comment ·

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  • [RFE] Annotate the cluster.x-k8s.io with the mgmt cluster name
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/import kind/enhancement status/needs-triage

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    rancher/turtles#1807 ·

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  • [SURE-5089] VSphere Node Provisioning: Anti-Affinity Rules
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/capv JIRA kind/enhancement status/later

    rancher/turtles#1759 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • [SURE-10278] Workaround to change registrationMethod: "internal-first" to registrationMethod: "control-plane-endpoint"
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/provisioning JIRA kind/enhancement status/needs-investigation

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rancher/turtles#1585 · 1 comment ·

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  • [EPIC] Release Turtles v1.0.0
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    area/build-and-release area/release

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rancher/turtles#1151 · 4 comments ·

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