Getting ready

Make sure you have a Kubernetes cluster ready and kubectl configured to manage the cluster resources.

Clone the k8sdevopscookbook/src repository to your workstation to use the manifest files under the chapter6 directory, as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/k8sdevopscookbook/src.git
$ cd src/chapter6

This recipe requires an existing stateful workload with presentable data so that we can simulate a disaster and then restore the data. To do this, we will use the mytestapp application we created during the Installing EBS CSI driver to manage EBS volumes recipe in Chapter 5, Preparing for Stateful Workloads.

Velero also requires S3-compatible object storage to store the backups. In this recipe, we will use the MinIO S3 target we deployed during the Configuring and managing S3 object storage using MinIO recipe for storing our backups.