Does velero support my cluster? What provider should I use? ...

[arisjr]

Hello for you all.

I'm new to velero, and I'm a local kubernetes cluster admin.

I have an old (v. 1.14.10) kubernetes local bare metal installation. I use it with an cephfs cluster file system for persistent volumes. I have installed it with the oficial kubernetes kubeadm. Now I need to update and add more masters on the cluster, and the need to backup is obvious. I need to backup it all, deployments, DS, StatefulSet, secrets, etc... I don't need to backup the volumes, since it's dealt by ceph separately, and we have Petabytes of storage.

https://velero.io/docs/v1.6/supported-providers/
I don't know how to categorize my cluster.
Does Velero support my type of cluster?
What is the type of provider I need to use with velero?
And what version of velero should I use that fits best with my k8s version?

Best regards,

[jenting]

1. If I remember correctly, Velero supports K8s >= 1.12
2. Since you don't need to backup the volumes, the plugin depends on which S3 provider you want to choose.

• AWS: velero-plugin-for-aws
• GCP: velero-plugin-for-gcp
• Azure: velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure
• S3-compatible (like MinIO): velero-plugin-for-aws

[arisjr]

If I understand correctly, I will have to obligatory use a S3 provider (ceph rados gateway on my case). There's no chance to backup the k8s resources on a normal volume... or there is a chance?

[jenting]

No, Velero only supports S3 object storage for now.

[arisjr]

Thanks @jenting, I already made my first backup on the ceph rados gateway! Best regards!