Use Helm to create an Aerospike backup

Overview

This page describes how to use Helm to create an Aerospike Backup Custom Resource (CR) containing the configuration parameters to perform a backup of an Aerospike cluster on Kubernetes.

Requirements

Before creating your backup CR using Helm, deploy ABS on your Kubernetes cluster using either:

kubectl
Helm

Create a backup

Add the Helm repository to get the Helm charts.
```
helm repo add aerospike https://aerospike.github.io/aerospike-kubernetes-enterprise
```
If the Helm repository is already added, update the index:
```
helm repo update
```

Create a custom values.yaml file with your required configurations.

The following is an example of a custom user-defined values.yaml file.

## backupService is the name and namespace reference for the backup service.
## It is used to communicate to the backup service to trigger operations. This field is immutable.
backupService:
  name: aerospikebackupservice-sample
  namespace: aerospike

## Config is the free form configuration for the backup in YAML format.
## This config is used to trigger backups. It includes: aerospike-cluster, backup-routines
backupConfig:
  aerospike-cluster:
      # Name format: The name must begin with the prefix <backup-namespace>-<backup-name>
    aerospike-aerospikebackup-test-cluster:
      credentials:
        password: admin123
        user: admin
      seed-nodes:
        - host-name: aerocluster.aerospike.svc.cluster.local
          port: 3000
  backup-routines:
      # Name format: The name must begin with the prefix <backup-namespace>-<backup-name>
    aerospike-aerospikebackup-test-routine:
      backup-policy: test-policy
      interval-cron: "@daily"
      incr-interval-cron: "@hourly"
      namespaces: ["test"]
      source-cluster: aerospike-aerospikebackup-test-cluster
      storage: local

Install the chart with custom values.

helm install aerospike-backup aerospike/aerospike-backup -f CUSTOM_YAML_FILE

Configuration parameters

For more details on these parameters, see the Aerospike Backup Configuration Settings.

Name	Description	Default
`customLabels`	Custom labels to add to the AerospikeBackup resource	`{}` (nil)
`backupService.name`	Aerospike backup service name
`backupService.namespace`	Aerospike backup service namespace
`backupConfig`	Aerospike backup configuration	`{}` (nil)
`onDemandBackups[*].id`	Unique identifier for the on-demand backup
`onDemandBackups[*].routineName`	Routine name used to trigger on-demand backup
`onDemandBackups[*].delay`	Delay interval before starting the on-demand backup