I have a Kubernetes cluster managed by kubeadm with a control plane and 3 worker nodes. Each worker node and control plane have been installed on their own server running Ubuntu Server 22.04.

I have 2 additional machines, each running Windows 10 and 11. I installed Rancher Desktop with Kubernetes enabled and would like to join one of them as a worker node and the other as a background control plane.

I can’t find in the documentation or forums how I can do both. The only solution I found was:

1. Disable kubernetes in rancher
2. Run rdctl shell to access the internal WSL image.
3. Install Kubernetes as if it were a normal Linux.

If that is the solution, Rancher Desktop is definitely an unnecessary component in the solution, because it would install any Linux distribution and follow the traditional Kubernetes installation with Containerd.

Please help me with your experience and advice.