Recover Rancher Kubernetes cluster from a Backup

Etcd is a highly available distributed key-value store that provides a reliable way to store data across machines, more importantly it is used as a Kubernetes’ backing store for all of a cluster’s data. In this post we are going to discuss how to backup etcd and how to recover from a backup to restore operations to a Kubernetes cluster. Etcd in Rancher 1.6 In Rancher 1.6 we use our own Docker image for etcd which basically pulls the official etcd and adds some scripts and go binaries for orchestration, backup, disaster recovery, and healthcheck. Read More…

Hussein Galal

event May 30, 2018

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