In this article, we will perform a backup of the TKGi cluster with Velero and then delete a namespace. We will then use the backup to restore the cluster to its original state. Below screenshot is a recap of what’s deployed in the cluster. Below screenshot confirms that the S3 bucket (velero-test) is empty. We…
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….
We will be using a TKGi cluster to setup Velero and to replicate a production environment, we will use the air-gapped (using images from private registry instead of pulling images directly from the internet) approach to install velero. Hence, we assume a private registry (ex: Harbor) and docker client already exists in the environment and…
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…
Since we have completed all the pre-requisites required to back up a vSphere pod using Velero in the previous three blogs, we will look into the procedure of backing up and restoring the pod in this blog. Step 1: I have created a namespace called “vsphere-pods” and deployed a nginx pod into it. Step 2:…
So far in this series of blogs, we have installed MinIO on a Ubuntu server, installed the Data Manager and the Velero vSphere Operator on the Supervisor cluster. We will continue in our journey to backup and restore a vSphere pod. The next step would be to install the vSphere plugin for Velero. Step 1:…
As a follow up to my previous blog about setting up MinIO for Velero vSphere Operator, I would like to describe the process of installing the Velero vSphere Operator in this blog. You can refer to the official documentation here. Since we have already installed MinIO, we will now deploy the Data Manager using OVA….
It has been a while since I wrote something in the space. This one has been long overdue. Almost all enterprises are slowly migrating their workloads to cloud native spaces, either on-prem or on the cloud. There are many external factors that aids the decision making process of whether the cloud-native applications are going to…