How to backup Kubernetes Master Node configuration
As the use of Kubernetes grows significantly in production environments, backing up the configuration of these clusters is becoming ever more critical. In previous blogs we have talked about the difference between stateful and stateless workloads, but this blog is focusing on backing up the cluster config, not the workloads. When running a Kubernetes cluster in an environment the Kubernetes Master node contains all the configuration data including items like worker nodes, application configurations, network settings and more. This data is critical to restore in the event of a failure of the master node. For us to understand what we need to backup, first we need to understand what components Kubernetes needs to operate. In Kubernetes the etcd is one of the key components. etcd is used as Kubernetes’ backing store. All cluster data is stored here. Etcd is an open-source key value store and is used for persistent storage […]
VeeamON 2019 Recap
Last week Veeam held its annual conference VeeamON in Miami at the FountainBlue Hotel! And what a venue it was. This has to be the nicest venue I have attended a conference in. The event opened with the General Session with Ratmir Timashev announcing Veeam has become a $1billion software company! What an achievement for a company started just over 10 years ago. Ratmir talks about how sucesful Veeam has become and how that was Act 1. Moving forward with Act 2, Veeam is focused on becoming the #1 Cloud Data Management Platform. This is an important step in helping customers manage and secure data in a Multi Cloud World. After the General Session, later on in the day, Danny Allan kicked off the Technical Keynote. Anthony Spiteri has written a nice recap blog on this session, check it out here. Anthony kindly broke down the key times in the […]
Veeam is at Cloud Field Day 5
Next week is Cloud Field Day 5 and Veeam will be presenting. This is an exciting time for Veeam as the cloud portfolio grows and the integration of the data management platform increases. With the world going all in on cloud, Veeam will be present to showcase the growing integration points across the mega clouds while still maintaining the industry best practice of the 3-2-1 rule. I am personally looking forward to this event. It will be my first Tech/Cloud Field Day I have presented at. While Rickatron is a tech field day alumni its not something I have been involved with much over my career. This is all about to change. Veeam at Tech Field Day Cloud 5 The full details of the event can be found above along with the list of delegates who will be attending. The event will be live streamed. Watch out next week for […]
Automate adding your AWS EC2 instances to your backup policies
One of the cool use features in N2WS Backup and Recovery is the ability to automate adding your EC2 instances to your backup policies. By leveraging tags this allows you to launch EC2 instances and assign them specific tags and never worry about those instances being protected. This works across AWS accounts too. Whats makes this even easier is when your using something like cloud formation to deploy anything in EC2 you can just have these tags propagated immediately. Lets take a quick look at how we do this. First we need to make sure that N2WS Backup and Recovery is configured for tag scanning. This is really simple. Go to General Settings Locate Tag Scan and turn Scan Resources to Enabled You can specify how long the scan interval is. Default is 6 hours. Once you have this configured, you need to define the tags in EC2. How this […]