Tag: Velero
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VKS Backup and Restore with Velero and External Object Storage (VCAP-VKS Exam Series, Part 28)
Objective 4.13 asks you to protect a VKS workload with Velero and an S3 bucket. This Part installs the Velero package from the VKS standard repository, moves a 5 Gi claim to MinIO with CSI snapshot data movement, and restores it into an emptied namespace.
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OpenShift Observability, Backup and Disaster Recovery (TKGI to OpenShift Series, Part 25)
A runbook for giving a freshly migrated OpenShift cluster real metric retention, restorable etcd snapshots and scheduled OADP application backups. Three recovery domains, three tools, and measured restore times for each.
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Migrating a Stateful Application with Persistent Volumes (TKGI to OpenShift Series, Part 19)
Moving a PostgreSQL StatefulSet and 61 GiB of live data from TKGI to OpenShift with Velero and OADP, including the storage class mapping, the pre-backup hook and the admission failure that costs most teams an afternoon.
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Migrating a Stateless Application End to End (TKGI to OpenShift Series, Part 18)
Moving your first stateless namespace off TKGI is less about Velero than about what OpenShift admission does to the pods when they land. Here is the whole loop, including a restore that reported success while nothing started.
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Migration Toolchain, Velero on TKGI and OADP on OpenShift (TKGI to OpenShift Series, Part 17)
Velero on the TKGI side writes to object storage and OADP restores on OpenShift. Here is the install, the version pin that keeps both ends compatible, and the read only backup location that stops OpenShift deleting your source backups.
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Observability, Backup and Disaster Recovery on VKS (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 25)
Observability, backup and disaster recovery on VKS, the safety net under a migrated estate. Stand up metrics, logs and traces, schedule Velero backups with volume data movement, and prove recovery with a restore drill that catches the crash-consistent database trap.
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VKS Pilot Migration, One Non-Prod Cluster End to End (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 22)
A pilot runs the whole TKGI to VKS playbook against one non-prod cluster, start to finish, so your production cutover repeats a proven run instead of improvising under load. Here is the end to end runbook, with real timings and the failures to expect.
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Migrating a Stateful Application with Persistent Volumes on VKS (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 19)
Moving a 500 GB PostgreSQL volume from TKGI to VKS with Velero snapshot data movement, a storage class mapping that stops the PVC hanging, and a checkpoint hook that stops the database coming back corrupt.
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Migrating a Stateless Application End to End on VKS (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 18)
Move a stateless service from TKGI to VKS with Velero, then fix the two things that break on VCF 9, Pod Security admission and image pull secrets, before you touch DNS.
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Velero on Source and Target, the Migration Toolchain (TKGI to VKS Series, Part 17)
Velero is the one toolchain that spans both estates in a TKGI to VKS migration. Install it on the source TKGI cluster and the target VKS cluster, wire shared S3 object storage, and prove a backup restores before any workload moves.
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VKS Day-2 Operations: Backup, Multi-Tenancy and Capacity (VKS Series, Part 16)
Day-2 is where a VKS platform quietly succeeds or rots. Here is the hard line between infrastructure and app backup, the multi-tenancy spectrum, and the capacity math that bites late.
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