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NetBackup™ Web UI Kubernetes Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2022-03-28

Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.0)

Deploy service package on NetBackup Kubernetes operator

Before deploying the NetBackup Kubernetes operator, you must install the Helm chart and provide space for persistent volume.

You must deploy the operator in each cluster, where you want to deploy NetBackup.

Configuring the Helm chart

You can use the Helm chart to deploy the NetBackup Kubernetes operator.

Note:

You must install a new NetBackup plug-in Helm chart, as Helm chart upgrade is not supported.

Before installing a new plug-in, you must uninstall the older plug-in.

To install a new Helm chart

To uninstall an older plug-in, run the command:
- helm uninstall <plugin-name> -n <namespace>
To install a new plug-in, run the command:
- helm install <plugin-name> <chart-path> -n <namespace>

Here is the Helm chart and tree structure layout:

netbackupkops-helm-chart

   ├── charts
   ├── Chart.yaml
   ├── templates
   │   └── deployment.yaml
   └── values.yaml

Directory structure:

tar --list -f netbackupkops-10.0.tar.gz
veritas_license.txt
netbackupkops-helm-chart/
netbackupkops-helm-chart/Chart.yaml
netbackupkops-helm-chart/Values.yaml
netbackupkops-helm-chart/.helmignore
netbackupkops-helm-chart/templates
netbackupkops-helm-chart/templates/development.yaml
netbackupkops-helm-chart/Charts/

To deploy the NetBackup Kubernetes operator:

Download the tar package from Veritas Support website: https://www.veritas.com/content/support
Extract the package to the home directory. The netbackupkops-helm-chart folder should be in the home directory.
To list all cluster contexts, run the command: kubectl config get-contexts
To switch to the cluster where you want to deploy the operator service, run the command:
kubectl config use-context <cluster-context-name>
To change the current directory to your home directory, run the command: cd ~
If you use a private docker registry, follow the instructions in this step to create a secret nb-docker-cred in NetBackup namespace. Otherwise, skip to the next step.
- To log on to the private docker registry, run the command: docker login -u <user name><repo-name>
  After log in, the config.json file containing the authorization token is created or updated. To view the config.json file, run the command: cat ~/.docker/config.json
  The output looks like:
```
{
   "auths": {
       "https://index.docker.io/v1/": {
           "auth": "c3R...zE2"
      }
   }
}
```
- To create a secret named as netbackupkops-docker-cred in the NetBackup namespace, run the command:
  kubectl create secret generic netbackupkops-docker-cred \
  --from-file=.dockerconfigjson=.docker/config.json \
  --type=kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson -n netbackup
  You can provide any namespace to create a secret.
- To check if the secret netbackupkops-docker-cred is created in the NetBackup namespace, run the command:
  kubectl get secrets -n netbackup
To load the image to the docker cache and push the image to the docker image repository, run the commands:
docker load -i <name of the tar file>./
docker tag <image name:tag of the loaded image>
<repo-name/image-name:tag-name>
docker push <repo-name/image-name:tag-name>
Open the netbackupkops-helm-chart/values.yaml file in a text editor and then replace the value for image in the manager section, with your image name and tag repo-name/image-name:tag-name and then save the file.
To deploy the NetBackup Kubernetes operator service, run the command:
helm install <release name of the deployment> ./netbackupkops-helm-chart -n <namespace which runs NetBackup operator service>
Example: helm install veritas-netbackupkops ./netbackupkops-helm-chart -n netbackup
- You can change the release name of the deployment as required.
- The -n option is required to specify the namespace in which NetBackup operator service and NetBackup is intended to run.
To check the status of the deployment, run the command:
helm list -n <namespace which runs NetBackup operator service >
Example:
helm list -n netbackup
To check the release history, run the command:
helm history veritas-netbackupkops -n
<namespace which runs NetBackup operator service>.
Example:
helm history veritas-netbackupkops -n netbackup