Additional information needed for documentation?

[burvil-aero]

I read and went through the steps at https://github.com/rancherfederal/rancher-cluster-templates/blob/main/charts/cluster-templates/README.md, and updated the required variables at the top of https://github.com/rancherfederal/rancher-cluster-templates/blob/main/charts/cluster-templates/values-vsphere.yaml.

1. It seems that cloudCredentialSecretName vsphere-creds specified at the top of that yaml would need to be created with the following commands:

kubectl create secret -n cattle-global-data generic vsphere-creds --from-literal=vmwarevspherecredentialConfig-username=$USERNAME --from-literal=vmwarevspherecredentialConfig-password=$PASSWORD --from-literal=vmwarevspherecredentialConfig-vcenter=$VCENTER_HOST --from-literal=vmwarevspherecredentialConfig-vcenterPort=$VCENTER_PORT

kubectl annotate secret -n cattle-global-data vsphere-creds provisioning.cattle.io/driver=vmwarevsphere

However, this would imply the secret is stored in a cluster. Do I need to first set the context to a cluster, and if so, what cluster would that be? I'd think it wouldn't be a downstream cluster, as it seems the intent here is to create a downstream RKE2 cluster.

2. In order to connect to and use resources on the Rancher instance specified by the Rancher URL at the top of the yaml, wouldn't I also need to supply an API key for that Rancher instance? [ In other words, login to the Rancher UI, click on the icon in the upper right, Click Account & API keys, Create API Key, next, and use the resulting API key ?]

Currently, I get the following when trying to install per the instructions; I think it's because I haven't provided the information above.

user@machine $ helm upgrade -i cluster cluster-templates/rancher-cluster-templates -n fleet-default -f values-vsphere.yaml
Error: Kubernetes cluster unreachable: {"Code":{"Code":"Forbidden","Status":403},"Message":"clusters.management.cattle.io "c-kqv6m" is forbidden: User "system:unauthenticated" cannot get resource "clusters" in API group "management.cattle.io" at the cluster scope","Cause":null,"FieldName":""}