Deploy & Configure Kasten K10 by Veeam and a Quick Backup & Restore Demo on ⎈ Kubernetes / ⎈ Tanzu or ⎈ Openshift

Written by Kerem ÇELİKER

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🧭 INTRODUCTION

Veeam has announced acquisition of Kasten in 5 October 2020, last year, Kasten the leader in Data Backup, Disaster Recovery and Mobility for Kubernetes and Container Area.

Kastan K10 Software designed to run and get backup natively on Kubernetes, Openshift or OpenStack to protect applications and namespaces. K10 integrates seamlessly with Any Supported Vendor Product's CSI Driver for Kubernetes for native-support.

📜 What About Licenses Types and Price for Kasten K10: (via Official Source)

There are 2 type Licences:

• Starter License

• Enterprise License

Starter License:

K10 comes with an embedded Starter Edition license by default. The starter edition license allows you to use the software on a cluster with at most 50 worker nodes for one month and then 10 nodes after the one month period

Enterprise License:

Enterprise Edition obtaining All Unlimited Cool Features for protecting your Enterprise Grade Applications and Valuable Products.

💬❓ Frequent License Question About Kasten K10:

• (Q-1) If Kasten K10 license expired because of grace-period, What does happens to my previously all configured policies ?

Nothing's Happens :) Kasten K10 will definitely continue to run getting previous backup for next 50 days for customer satisfaction and importance to your applications. Only you can't just define new backups as you know and it's so normal and understandable anyway for sure :)

• (Q-2) Do you mind if We try K10 in our Kubernetes,Tanzu or Openshift Environment ?

No, You can try for FREE no sign-up needed :)

Link: https://www.kasten.io/try-kasten-k10

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📚 Let's go Install Kasten K10 now, take a break from ads, right?

Because, I can hear you saying enough advertising KEREM !😁

📍STEP 1

Install HELM 3 or HELM 2 named "Bundle Package Orchestrator Manager" if you don't have it on your Core-Kubernetes Stack, you must download and install from here: https://github.com/helm/helm.

The most common problem during helm use is the taking of Tiller package errors. This problem is generally simple to resolve.

First of all, you must bring your Helm & Tiller Pack to the latest version and give Tiller authorized permission in RBAC on your Helm Repo packages. That's how these mistakes are mostly handled.. :)

sudo snap install helm --classic (*works only Ubuntu,I guess..)`

📍STEP 2

The CSI external-snapshotter sidecar only watches for VolumeSnapshotContent create/update/delete events. Also Kubernetes external snapshotter “watches Kubernetes Snapshot CRD objects and triggers CreateSnapshot/DeleteSnapshot against a CSI endpoint”

$ git clone https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter

📍STEP 3

$ cd external-snapshotter $ git checkout release-2.0 $ kubectl apply -f config/crd -f deploy/kubernetes/snapshot-controller

📍STEP 4

$ kubectl create -f-

apiVersion: snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: VolumeSnapshotClass
metadata:
  name: vmwarecsi-snapshot
  annotations:
    snapshot.storage.kubernetes.io/is-default-class: "true"
driver: csi.k8s.com
deletionPolicy: Delete
parameters:
  description: "Snapshot created by the VMware/RedHat or Any Supported Vendor CSI Driver"
  csi.storage.k8s.io/snapshotter-secret-name: vmware-backend
  csi.storage.k8s.io/snapshotter-secret-namespace: kube-system

Note: Please refer to this site for CSI Yaml Config. Because mine's just an example,no guaranteed of your side as you know.

For VMware: https://vsphere-csi-driver.sigs.k8s.io/

There are so many vendor has CSI Driver for Kubernetes Stack, Please check the Vendors Official Support Site.

📍STEP 5

https://docs.kasten.io/latest/install/storage.html#csi-snapshot-configuration

$ kubectl annotate volumesnapshotclass hpe-snapshot k10.kasten.io/is-snapshot-class=true

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• You need to check and configure before you install Kasten's K10 platform on Kubernetes !

$ curl https://docs.kasten.io/tools/k10_primer.sh | bash

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0Namespace option not provided, using default namespace
100  6226  100  6226    0     0  12502      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 12502
Checking for tools
 --> Found kubectl
 --> Found helm
Checking if the Kasten Helm repo is present
Error: Couldn't load repositories file (/root/.helm/repository/repositories.yaml).
 --> The Kasten Helm repo was not found
Checking for required Helm Tiller version (>= v2.16.0)
Error: could not find tiller
 --> Error when running 'helm version'
Preflight checks failed

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📍STEP 6

$helm init

• Note: If tiller is already installed please use helm init --client-only or helm init --client-only --skip-refresh

• If you have "Service Account tiller not found" error in ReplicateSet, you can use this RBAC.yaml for quick-fix ;)

$ cat tiller-rbac.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
 name: tiller
 namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
 name: tiller
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authotization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: cluster-admin
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: tiller
    namespace: kube-system

OR

You can use it by cli as the below:

kubectl --namespace kube-system create sa tiller
kubectl create clusterrolebinding tiller --clusterrole cluster-admin --serviceaccount=kube-system:tiller
helm init --service-account tiller

📍STEP 7

• Create kasten-io namespace if have not done it yet (Optional-It's not necessary)

kubectl create namespace kasten-io

📍STEP 8

• Install add Kasten K10 Helm Repo on Kubernetes or Tanzu, Openshift related Distribution;

helm repo add kasten https://charts.kasten.io/

helm repo update => It's Important !!

📍STEP 9

• Let's Start to Install Kasten K10 by Veaam

helm install kasten/k10 --name=k10 --namespace=kasten-io --set persistence.storageClass=hostpath

📍STEP 10

• Check the K10 Pods until pods appears running-state

watch -n5 kubectl get pods --namespace kasten-io

kubectl get pods --namespace kasten-io
NAMESPACE     NAME                                    READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kasten-io     aggregatedapis-svc-f72d26hn8-8zsr0      1/1     Running   0          4m12s
kasten-io     auth-svc-8d26hc6461-9c9fb               1/1     Running   0          4m12s
kasten-io     catalog-svc-c71103fkp-62tyl             2/2     Running   0          4m12s
etc...

You should see apx. that 20 Pods working running state as the above !

📍STEP 11

• Configure port forwarding for the gateway service to allow access for Kasten Web Browser Interface.

kubectl --namespace kasten-io port-forward service/gateway 8080:8000

• The K10 dashboard will be available at http://127.0.0.1:8080/k10/#/

kubectl --namespace kasten-io port-forward service/gateway 8080:8000

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Now it's time to Install a Sample Database App and Delete Table and The Most Delicious Final Part Backup & Restore A Table from MARIADB 😉

📍STEP 1

kubectl create ns mariadb 

You can take also backup with MySQL as the follows below link:

Link: https://blog.kasten.io/kubernetes-backup-and-restore-for-mysql

📍STEP 2

helm install -f values.yaml -n mariadb keremceliker-db bitnami/mariadb

📍STEP 3

You can learn Maria Database Root => Password as the follows below:

kubectl get secret --namespace mariadb keremceliker-db -o jsonpath="{.data.mariadb-root-password}" | base64 --decode

📍STEP 4

Run a Pod that you can use as a client

kubectl run keremcelker-db-client --rm --tty -i --restart='Never' --image docker.io/bitnami/mariadb:10.5.6-debian-10-r0 --namespace mariadb --command -- bash

mysql -h keremceliker-db.mariadb.svc.cluster.local -u root -p K@$t€n2021!

📍STEP 5

📍STEP 6

Click to details tab for View application details and related resources.

📍STEP 7

git clone https://github.com/datacharmer/test_db
cd test_db

Login to MySQL Server:

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p admin -P 3306

📍STEP 8

mysql> show databases

add database chart picture

exit

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p admin -P 3306 < employees.sql

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p admin -P 3306 -t < test_employees_sha.sql

Please Check the MariaDB Chart Picture !

📍STEP 9

Click a Snapshot as Get Backup for Manually create a restore point for this application

Important: Kasten can also take snapshots of applications and their settings.

📍STEP 10

kubectl get -n mariadb volumesnapshots

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p admin -P 3306

mysql> show databases

Please Check the MariaDB Tables Chart !

mysql>  use employees;
mysql> delete from departments;

📍STEP 11

Please Check the Deleted MariaDB Database in CHART !

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p admin -P 3306 -t < test_employees_sha.sql

📍STEP 12

Finally, we must view restore points for mariadb and Restore to the same or different namespace...

kubectl get --raw /apis/apps.kio.kasten.io/v1alpha1/namespaces/mariadb/restorepointcontents/keremceliker-mariadb-sib539/details

List restore point in namespace 'MariaDB-App'

kubectl get restorepoints.apps.kio.kasten.io --namespace mariadb

📍STEP 13

Please Check the MariaDB Datbases Databases Chart After Restore !

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p admin -P 3306 -t < test_employees_sha.sql

📚 REFERENCES:

• https://docs.kasten.io/latest/install/advanced.html

• https://docs.kasten.io/latest/install/advanced.html#using-red-hat-certified-upstream-container-images

• https://docs.kasten.io/latest/kanister/mysql/install.html

• https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter