Velero - Backup & Restore Kubernetes Cluster (Application with Persistent Volume )

Velero (formerly Heptio Ark) gives you tools to back up and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. You can run Velero with a cloud provider or on-premises. Velero lets you:

Take backups of your cluster and restore in case of loss.
Migrate cluster resources to other clusters.
Replicate your production cluster to development and testing clusters.
Velero consists of:

A server that runs on your cluster
A command-line client that runs locally

[ramveergupta]

Thanks Rohtash to share this demo. this will help for me to namespace backup.

[subhankarb]

thanks for your nice video but do I need to install miniO in the same k8s machine? or I can install that in a separate server for storage only?

[roodolphekueteagbassah]

Thanks Rohtash for the video. I have an issue, this my case MIGRATION K8s cluster GCP to AKS, I used velero, It does a backup and restore from gcp to AKS .. but data from the disk missed .. Is there a way to retreive data stored on the cloud provider's managed disk from gcp to azure disk ?

[dhirajraj]

Thanks for the video..Can you post the velero video for AKS clsuter where the storage will be Azure blob storage instead of minio? . Thanks in advance

[Martin-pdmc]

Thanks for the video!
Can you please put the commands you executed?
Did you try to actually install Velero inside a kubernetes Cluster? Can you make a video for that?
Thanks!

[tauqeerahmad]

I tried this but my server nodeport have issue. When I try to access minio the port no change itself to console port. In log I can see console have different port no than nodeport service . Any advice please

[taimurmalik]

I did not find this command
Please paste it here

[wemake]

#### Dow#### Download The Release





Change NodePort for S3 Compatible local Storage



clusterIP replaced by NodePort


kubectl apply -f 00-minio-deployment.yaml


Credential File for minio setup
vim credentials-velero
[default]
aws_access_key_id = minio
aws_secret_access_key = minio123
kubectl get svc -n velero


velero Install
./velero install \
--provider aws \
--plugins \
--bucket velero \
--secret-file ./credentials-velero \
--use-volume-snapshots=false \


Veryfy the Installation
kubectl get deployments -l component=velero --namespace=velero
Create your App with PV


PVC
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
name: local-path-pvc
namespace: nginx
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
storageClassName: hostpath ### Depend upon your SC
resources:
requests:
storage: 5Mi



apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: volume-test
namespace: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: volume-test
image: nginx:stable-alpine
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
volumeMounts:
- name: volv
mountPath: /data
ports:
- containerPort: 80
volumes:
- name: volv
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: local-path-pvc





./velero backup create nginx --include-namespaces nginx --wait


./velero backup logs nginx







./velero restore create --from-backup nginx

kubectl get pod -n ngix
kubectl get pod -n nginx
nload The Release





Change NodePort for S3 Compatible local Storage



clusterIP replaced by NodePort


kubectl apply -f 00-minio-deployment.yaml


Credential File for minio setup
vim credentials-velero
[default]
aws_access_key_id = minio
aws_secret_access_key = minio123
kubectl get svc -n velero


velero Install
./velero install \
--provider aws \
--plugins \
--bucket velero \
--secret-file ./credentials-velero \
--use-volume-snapshots=false \


Veryfy the Installation
kubectl get deployments -l component=velero --namespace=velero
Create your App with PV


PVC
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
name: local-path-pvc
namespace: nginx
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
storageClassName: hostpath ### Depend upon your SC
resources:
requests:
storage: 5Mi



apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: volume-test
namespace: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: volume-test
image: nginx:stable-alpine
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
volumeMounts:
- name: volv
mountPath: /data
ports:
- containerPort: 80
volumes:
- name: volv
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: local-path-pvc





./velero backup create nginx --include-namespaces nginx --wait


./velero backup logs nginx







./velero restore create --from-backup nginx

kubectl get pod -n ngix
kubectl get pod -n nginx