Linux
Kubernetes Rolling Volume Backups
Use rsync hard-links to perform rolling backups of Kubernetes Volumes
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
K8s Grafana Doesn't Persist Data
I recently setup monitoring on my home MicroK8s cluster (Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB) and found out the hard way that by default the Grafana deployment does not have any kind of Persistence (emptyDir volume). If the pod gets restarted all of your custom settings, sources, dashboards, etc will be erased. In
Kubernetes
K8 Host Storage Backups with Rsync and CronJob
I host a single node Kubernetes cluster (MicroK8s) at home running various applications. I use simple hostpath volumes for storage and need a way to create backups of this data. The solution I chose is to combine K8 CronJobs with Rsync. The basic steps are: * Create a backups namespace * Create