Velero

Velero (formerly Heptio Ark) gives you tools to back up and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.

Velero on the local environment

The Velero controller automatically connects with a pre-created bucket in the local MinIO installation. A backup Schedule is deployed as well.

Validate the backup / restore process

Follow the basic example from the Velero docs to validate the backup / restore process. Be aware that the second example (csi snapshot) does not work on the local Kind environment.

To verify the actual backup data, open a port-forward to the MinIO console:

kubectl -n minio-generic-tenant port-forward svc/minio-generic-tenant-console 9090:9090

Browse to http://localhost:9090 and login with minio/minio123. You should see a velero bucket with data in it.