KubeDB

KubeDB is a command to interact with databases running in Kubernetes. It supports dumping, restoring, and dropping into a database shell. Optional flags are available to set running database parameters (see each command's help entry for more details). If no flags are given, KubeDB will inspect the pod configuration and attempt to configure itself via the Kubernetes EnvVar API.

Supported Databases

• PostgreSQL
  • bitnami/postgresql
  • bitnami/postgresql-ha
  • CloudNativePG
  • Zalando Operator
• MariaDB/MySQL
  • bitnami/mariadb
  • bitnami/mariadb-galera
  • bitnami/mysql
• MongoDB
  • bitnami/mongodb
• Redis
  • bitnami/redis
• Meilisearch [beta]
  • meilisearch/meilisearch

Installation

Homebrew (macOS, Linux)

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brew install clevyr/tap/kubedb

Docker

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KubeDB has a Docker image available at ghcr.io/clevyr/kubedb

docker pull ghcr.io/clevyr/kubedb

To use this image, you will need to volume bind a couple of directories into the Docker container:

1. Kubeconfig: Typically, this will be at ~/.kube/config, and the container expects it to be at /.kube/config.
   • Example: -v "$HOME/.kube/config:/.kube/config"
2. Data dir: A directory to hold the generated dump or that has a sql file to restore. The container expects this to be at /data.
   • Example: -v "$PWD:/data"

Example:

docker run --rm -it -v "$HOME/.kube:/.kube" -v "$PWD:/data" ghcr.io/clevyr/kubedb dump

APT Repository (Ubuntu, Debian)

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1. If you don't have it already, install the ca-certificates package

   sudo apt install ca-certificates

2. Add Clevyr's apt repository

   echo 'deb [trusted=yes] https://apt.clevyr.com /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/clevyr.list
   

3. Update apt repositories

   sudo apt update

4. Install KubeDB

   sudo apt install kubedb

RPM Repository (CentOS, RHEL)

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1. If you don't have it already, install the ca-certificates package

   sudo yum install ca-certificates

2. Add Clevyr's rpm repository to /etc/yum.repos.d/clevyr.repo

   [clevyr]
   name=Clevyr
   baseurl=https://rpm.clevyr.com
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=0

3. Install KubeDB

   sudo yum install kubedb

AUR (Arch Linux)

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Install kubedb-bin with your AUR helper of choice.

KubeDB requires an existing Kubeconfig. See below for details.

Usage

All of the KubeDB subcommands and flags are documented in the docs directory.

Examples

• Verify cluster/database connection

  kubedb status

• Dump a database (filename will be generated)

  kubedb dump

• Dump a database to a specific filename

  kubedb dump example.sql.gz

• Restore a SQL file to a database

  kubedb restore example.sql.gz

• Set up a local port-forward

  kubedb port-forward

• Open an interactive prompt

  kubedb exec

Connecting to GKE

1. To connect to a Kubernetes cluster running in GKE, ensure you have the gcloud command installed. If you have it then skip to step 2.
   Otherwise, you can either take a look at GCP's install doc, or run:

   brew install google-cloud-sdk
   gcloud init

2. Install the gke-cloud-auth-plugin per the GCP install doc or run:

   gcloud components install gke-gcloud-auth-plugin

3. Then to generate a Kubeconfig, run:

   gcloud container clusters get-credentials --project=PROJECT CLUSTER_NAME

4. If you don’t encounter any errors then you should be connected and ready to work with databases! To verify, type in the following command and press the tab key twice:

   kubedb exec -n <TAB><TAB>

   All of your current namespaces should show up in your shell. Many of the KubeDB flags support tab completion.