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I have to personally shout out for my own VeeamON session with Michael Cade as the one I’m most looking forward to!Kubernetes Backup Best Practices Meets Pac-ManAlso any time you can have a AMA with Gostev, you need to get involved!!!
I’ve been playing around with Kasten for a while now and produced some content: Kubestr – Open-Source Kubernetes Storage benchmarking toolI’ve also wrote some other posts for Kasten as well, you can find them all here.
Hi again Dean, Would you have and links to good study guides or tips for the Vmware Cloud Native Master Specialist exam? cheers Hi Geoff, I actually don’t a the moment, I don’t get involved with that side of the house. However with all exams, I’d say read the blueprint and go through that. Use the hands on labs to death as they are great resource. Sit any of the pre-req training, and hopefully they’ll give you some pointers as well. Tbh looking at the objectives document, they even give you resources for various sections as well.
OpenShift is an opinionated Kubernetes platform, the same way Tanzu Kubernetes is from VMware.There is also the open source/community offering called OKD (Openshift Kubernetes Distribution) which maps to the same things really, bar the enterprise features you’d paid for.There’s a lot of blogs posts out there covering OpenShift, mainly because its a leader in the enterprise Kubernetes space alongside Tanzu, and they have a rich ecosystem of partners and solutions that integrate with them.Red Hat have produced some good labs here - https://learn.openshift.com/And I’ll plug some of my own blogs with an OpenShift focus.The main areas I had to get to grips with when I first started working with OpenShift was:How cluster deployment works IPI - Installer provisioned Infrastructure - This is the simple install into your cloud platform and the installer setups everything you need. This simple install limits some of the options you have available during a cluster bring up UPI - User Provisioned
Where is the main content? Some of us would not want to leave this community “https://community.veeam.com/”. The main content is on my blog. If I repost it here, then it can massively affect SEO with google. So damned if you do, damned if you don’t. So I’m opting for sharing what the blog is about and the link.
As you already have OpenShift in vSphere, if you eventually use vSphere CSI for PVCs, you can leverage Veeam Repositories also for Kubernetes backups. I don’t believe this is comment is correct.Kasten can offload any backup to a Veeam repo, regardless of the k8’s cluster CSI. The vSphere CSI allows the K8’s cluster to dynamically provision new PV’s on the vSphere Datastores, and attach them to the correct K8s node (VM) where the Pod that needs the PV is running. It is not recommended (or supported iirc) for VBR to protect a First Class Disk (VMDK created and used by a VM that is a K8s node), as VBR cannot interact with K8s to tell it, it is protecting the disk.Point 1 + 2 do not rely on each other to be true, Point 3 is just for anyone considering using VBR to backup VMs that have dynamically attached VMDK files (due to K8s).[If I happen to be wrong, or misunderstanding the point of the original comment here, please also let me know :) ]
Regarding Dean's comment on the support for K10 to offload backups to a Veeam repository (https://docs.kasten.io/latest/usage/configuration.html?highlight=veeam#veeam-repository-location) From that link, you will see “A Veeam Repository can be used for exported vSphere CSI provisioned volume snapshot data when using a supported vSphere cluster. “ with additional links to what both refer to. TIL 😁
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There is probably some CRDs that were not cleaned up hence the finalizer getting stuck, and by removing the finalizer, they’ll still be there. Be interesting to know if that is the case, I know I’ve come across it before.
So if you want bare metal over running this on my daily driver machine, you’ve a few options OpenShift single node - sign up for an account with red hat, get 60 days trial licence from an install, use the assisted installer (liveCD) to built your node from scratch. https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.15/installing/installing_sno/install-sno-installing-sno.htmlRancher https://medium.com/@gregory.grubbs/putting-up-a-rancher-kubernetes-cluster-on-bare-metal-dce3b8ac2a4aOr Talos Linux, which I think is getting really popular atm, and probably what I’d look at first. https://www.talos.dev/ @michaelcade has been using Talos for his homelab at the moment as well, https://github.com/MichaelCade/Kargo Ciao, Jurgen Kubernetes Klopp!
Talos for me! geek!
ah @k00laidIT you knew I was a Kubernetes junkie anyways and now you have enabled me 😂 even more. I don’t know why I had avoided or not wandered into Kubevirt before. The problem with Kubernetes is that it is like being on a street with candy stores on both sides, this when you are trying to stick to a diet. Anyways, better than drinking beer. I will do a few posts on kubevirt in the near future and see what I can squeeze out of my lego lab. I played around with Rancher Desktop yesterday but as @michaelcade and @saintdle said Talos should be more fun and will try a multi node cluster with it as well. Maybe you can compare Beer to KubeVirt and make it your thing? a connoisseur of alcohol and cloud native.
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