Kubernetes Backup and Restore

1. Velero CLI Installation

wget https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/download/v1.7.0/velero-v1.7.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz

tar -xvf velero-v1.7.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz -C /tmp
sudo mv /tmp/velero-v1.7.0-linux-amd64/velero /usr/local/bin

velero version

2. AWS Credentails Setup

[default]
aws_access_key_id=
aws_secret_access_key=

3. Velero installation to K8

export BUCKET=k8-backup
export REGION=ap-south-1
velero install \
    --provider aws \
    --plugins velero/velero-plugin-for-aws:v1.3.0 \
    --bucket $BUCKET \
    --backup-location-config region=$REGION \
    --snapshot-location-config region=$REGION \
    --secret-file ./credentials-velero

kubectl get pods -n velero

4. Creating application

kubectl create deployment testing --image=nginx --replicas=2
kubectl expose deployment testing --name=test-srv --type=NodePort --port=80
kubectl port-forward svc/test-srv 8000:80

velero backup-location get

5. Create backup

velero backup create cluster-backup

velero backup-location get

6. Restore backup

velero restore create new-backup-restore --from-backup new-backup

7. Scheduled backup

velero schedule create every5min --schedule="*/5 * * * *" --include-namespaces test --ttl 0h15m0s