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Backup & restore

OpsChain by itself does not perform backup and disaster recovery procedures. This guide assumes that you will be using a backup tool to backup and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources.

Prerequisites​

This guide assumes you have a Kubernetes backup tool to perform your backup and recovery procedures. Scroll down this page for some options.

Creating a snapshot of your OpsChain resources​

Prior to backing up your resources, we recommend stopping OpsChain:

opschain server stop

It is recommended that you backup the entire opschain namespace so that in an unlikely event of a failure, you can get OpsChain up and running after the recovery and restore process. Using the backup tool of your choice, make a snapshot of the opschain resources. In addition to the resources in the opschain namespace, the OpsChain persistent volumes that fulfil the persistent volume claims (in the opschain namespace) need to be backed up as well (e.g. database, Git repos, LDAP, step data). Once the snapshot has been created, you can restart OpsChain:

opschain server start

Restoring a backup​

Follow your backup tool's restore procedures if you need to restore a snapshot of your OpsChain Kubernetes resources.

See also​

Kubernetes backup options include Velero, Kasten K10 and Portworx. OpsChain does not make any recommendations on which backup tool you should use as it is outside the scope of our application.