NetBackup™ Web UI Kubernetes Administrator's Guide

To create a new API key, from NetBackup web UI.

1. Go to Security > Access keys > Add. Enter the username and select the validity as one day to avoid misuse of API key.
2. On the Kubernetes cluster, create a new secret, nb-config-deploy-secret.yaml, with the following content.

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: Secret
   metadata:
     name: <kops-namespace>-nb-config-deploy-secret
     namespace: <kops-namespace>
   type: Opaque
   stringData:
     apikey: <Enter the value of API key from the earlier step>

3. Apply the secret. run the command kubectl apply -f nb-config-deploy-secret.yaml

Pre-installation

1. Edit the following fields in netbackupkops-helm-chart/values.yaml

   • containers.manager.image: Container registry URL for pulling NetBackup Kubernetes controller image

   • imagePullSecrets: name: name of image pull secret if container registry requires authentication to pull images.

   • nbprimaryserver: Configured name of NetBackup primary server.

   • nbsha256fingerprint: Fetch sha256 fingerprint from the NetBackup web UI. Go to Security > Certificates > Certificate Authority

   • k8sCluster: FQDN for Kubernetes cluster API server.

   • k8sPort: Port on which the Kubernetes API server is listed.

   The information is available on the UI console of Kubernetes cluster.

2. If it is not present, run the following command to get Kubernetes cluster and Kubernetes port# kubectl cluster-infoKubernetes control plane runs at https://<Kubernetes FQDN>:6443

   • datamoverimage: Container registry URL to pull data mover image.

   • Storage parameters are required for snapshot and backup from snapshot operations. At least one of the Block or Filesystem storage parameters are mandatory.

3. To get the storage classes, run the command # kubectl get storageclasses

   • storageclassblock: Storage class used for provisioning block volumes.

   • storageclassfilesystem: Storage class used for provisioning filesystem volumes.

4. To get the volume snapshot class, run the command # kubectl get volumesnapshotclasses

   • volumesnapshotclassblock: Volume snapshot class for creating block volume snapshots.

   • volumesnapshotclassfilesystem: Volume snapshot class for creating filesystem volume snapshots.

   • waitTimeBeforeCleanupMinutes: Time in minutes to wait before configuration deployment is deleted in case of success. Max value can be set to 129600 (90 days). In case of failure, NetBackup resources of security token and credentials are deleted automatically but deployment runs to debug the failure.