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Published inMar 2020
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Murat Karslioglu
Murat Karslioglu
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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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Application backup and recovery using Velero

In this section, we will create disaster recovery backups and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes in Kubernetes using VMware Velero (formerly Heptio Ark).

You will learn how to install Velero, create standard and scheduled backups of applications with an S3 target, and restore them back to the Kubernetes clusters.

Getting ready

Make sure you have a Kubernetes cluster ready and kubectl configured to manage the cluster resources.

Clone the k8sdevopscookbook/src repository to your workstation to use the manifest files under the chapter6 directory, as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/k8sdevopscookbook/src.git
$ cd src/chapter6

This recipe requires an existing stateful workload with presentable data so that we can simulate a disaster and then restore the data. To do this, we will use the mytestapp application we created during the Installing EBS CSI driver to manage EBS volumes recipe in Chapter 5, Preparing for Stateful...

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Published in: Mar 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838828042

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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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