Tagged "Backup"

This is quick post to summarise using Velero to backup your stateful workloads running on Kubernetes without the use of cloud provider plugin to snapshot the persistent volumes. The current setup I’ve got a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster provisioned with the Guestbook application installed into a namespace called (imaginatively) guestbook. I’ve also added some random comments to the guestbook so we have some data to backup from the persistent volume.

Backing up a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI, formerly known as PKS) installation is a bit of a mishmash of different elements. Unfortunately TKGI doesn’t support image based backups, neither does Kubernetes, before we look at the tools at your disposal what components require backing up? This diagram shows each layer of a TKGI deployment, let’s step through each layer and discuss the options for backing it up. Infrastructure (vCenter / NSX-T) Bread and butter backups here - point the appliance at the appropriate endpoint and hit go.