In the previous articles, we have completed all the pre-requisites needed to proceed with Velero installation. We will now use the Velero CLI to execute the following code to complete the installation. The installation should now begin. Now that velero is installed, we can proceed to backup the TKGi Cluster. But we are done yet,…
In this blog we will look at the other pre-requisites and pre-configured information required for the installation apart from the one’s we did earlier in this series here and here. Install Velero CLI Step 1 – Install the binary Extract the tar bundle and install Velero CLI which we will use later to deploy Velero….
Velero is an open-source tool that allows you to backup and restore your kubernetes cluster resources. In this series of blogs, we will look at the procedure of installing Velero in an air-gapped TKGi environment including the pre-requisites. Velero uses an object storage backend to store backup data and associated artifacts. MinIO is an open-source…
Recently, I came across a customer scenario where a storage refresh had to be performed in a TKGi environment, which meant migrating all existing infrastructure including the Persistent Volumes to new data stores. I intend to cover the steps involved in this migration on a very high level, while the focus being Persistent Volumes migration….
Tanzu has become the buzz word off-late. While VMware offers a variety of Tanzu services, this blog would concentrate on enabling vSphere with Tanzu or TKGs as they call it. Starting vSphere 7, your hypervisor’s (ESXi Servers) are capable of acting in similar capacity to a worker node of a kubernetes cluster, by using the…