Free Starter License maximum nodes decreased

I think, as soon as you upgrade to V5 you are allowed to backup 5 nodes only…

With the upgrade to VBR 11 the amount of data per instance for NAS backups was automatically adjusted from 250 to 500GB. So, I am afraid this will be case with this change, too...

Thanks for your response @JMeixner and @dk-do !

Is there any reference in the docs I didn’t find, that gives more detail over the licensing and counting of nodes? 

Thank you!

Here you can find the info that the “forever-free” version contains 5 nodes.

For licensing details you can use the form for the enterprise trial:

https://www.kasten.io/free-kubernetes

The 5 node limit of the starter version is mentioned on the site @dk-do linked.
But I cannot find a reference for not counting the master node….

The master or control plane nodes do not hold any data to backup and they cannot be scheduled for running pods/containers. So those are not counted.

Yes, the logic is clear - and I was nearly sure that it is handled this way.
But a reference in the documentation about this would be fine. Perhaps it can be added in the future 😎

Thanks a lot for your help, I mark this as solved. I would also appreciate an entry in the documentation. 

Does anyone know what the license count is specifically looking for when identifying master vs worker? We have an issue where our masters are being identified as a worker and thus consuming our license count.

We (well... rke2) tag the following on our masters:

node-role.kubernetes.io/etcd=true
node-role.kubernetes.io/master=true
node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane=true
 

I want to know this. Kasten consuming our license for infra nodes. Infra nodes aren’t worker nodes.

Have the same issue. With RKE 2, my 3 masters are taken into license count..

edit: → Solution

kubectl cordon <node-name>

kubectl drains <node-name> 

kubectl taint nodes <node-name> node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule

kubectl uncordon <node-name>