Use Helm to create an Aerospike Restore

Overview

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

Requirements

Before creating your restore CR using Helm, deploy the Aerospike Backup Service (ABS) on your Kubernetes cluster using either:

kubectl
Helm

Create the restore

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. Here 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

## Type is the type of restore. It can be of type Full, Incremental, or Timestamp.
## Based on the restore type, the relevant restore config is provided.
type: Full

## Config is the free form configuration for the restore in YAML format.
## This config is used to trigger restores. It includes: destination, policy, source, secret-agent, time and routine.
restoreConfig:
  destination:
    label: destinationCluster
    credentials:
      password: admin123
      user: admin
    seed-nodes:
      - host-name: aerocluster.test.svc.cluster.local
        port: 3000
  policy:
    parallel: 3
    no-generation: true
    no-indexes: true
  source:
    local-storage:
      path: /localStorage
  backup-data-path: "/path/to/backup/data/"

## Polling period for restore operation status.
## It is used to poll the restore service to fetch restore operation status. Default is 60 seconds.
pollingPeriod: 60s

Install the chart with custom values.

helm install aerospike-restore aerospike/aerospike-restore -f CUSTOM_YAML_FILE

Configurations

For more details on these configurations, see the Aerospike Restore Configuration Settings.

Name	Description	Default
`customLabels`	Custom labels to add on the AerospikeRestore resource	`{}` (nil)
`backupService.name`	Aerospike backup service name
`backupService.namespace`	Aerospike backup service namespace
`type`	Type of restore. It can be of type Full, Incremental, or Timestamp.	`Full`
`restoreConfig`	Aerospike restore configuration	`{}` (nil)
`pollingPeriod`	Polling period for restore operation status	`60s`