Blueprint Bindings
A BlueprintBinding custom resource (CR) is used to automate the assignment of Kanister blueprints to applications. Once a BlueprintBinding is created, Veeam Kasten will use it during snapshot, export and restore routines to automatically run a desired blueprint for matching workloads including workloads that are yet to be created in a cluster. You can learn more about Kanister blueprints in this section.
A BlueprintBinding consists of two parts: a reference to a Kanister blueprint and a resource selector. For resources that match the selector, Veeam Kasten will automatically use the specified blueprint.
Warning
For complete documentation of the BlueprintBinding CR, refer to BlueprintBinding API Type.
Resource Selector
The resources portion of the blueprint binding spec indicates which kind of resources this blueprint binding will apply to.
Note
For a resource to match the selector, it must meet all the requirements from matchAll and at least one requirement from matchAny (if any). A blueprint binding with no requirements is considered invalid.
Both matchAll and matchAny portions of resources represent a list of resource requirements to meet. A single resource requirement can set one of the following constraints:
type: selects resources by group, version, resource and name (GVRN) values
namespace: selects resources by namespace
annotations: selects resources by annotations
labels: selects resources by labels
Example BlueprintBinding Operations
Create a Blueprint Binding
The following example illustrates how to create a blueprint binding which will automatically apply a blueprint to all statefulsets in the group apps that has no custom blueprint annotations.
$ cat > sample-blueprint-binding.yaml <<EOF
apiVersion: config.kio.kasten.io/v1alpha1
kind: BlueprintBinding
metadata:
name: sample-blueprint-binding
namespace: kasten-io
spec:
blueprintRef:
name: my-blueprint
namespace: kasten-io
resources:
matchAll:
- type:
operator: In
values:
- group: apps
resource: statefulsets
- annotations:
key: kanister.kasten.io/blueprint
operator: DoesNotExist
EOF
$ kubectl apply -f sample-blueprint-binding.yaml
blueprintbinding.config.kio.kasten.io/sample-blueprint-binding created
# make sure it initializes and validates properly
$ kubectl get blueprintbindings.config.kio.kasten.io --namespace kasten-io -w
NAME DISABLED STATUS AGE
sample-blueprint-binding Success 7s
Update a Blueprint Binding
To update a BlueprintBinding, edit the spec portion of a BlueprintBinding CR using your preferred method of submitting resource changes with kubectl. E.g. disabled: true can be added to the spec to disable the blueprint binding.
$ kubectl apply -f sample-blueprint-binding-changed.yaml
blueprintbinding.config.kio.kasten.io/sample-blueprint-binding configured
Once the change is submitted, Veeam Kasten will re-validate the BlueprintBinding and update .status.validation accordingly.
$ kubectl get blueprintbindings.config.kio.kasten.io --namespace kasten-io -w
NAME DISABLED STATUS AGE
sample-blueprint-binding Success 45s
sample-blueprint-binding true Success 47s
Delete a Blueprint Binding
You can delete a BlueprintBinding using the following command.
# delete blueprint binding "sample-blueprint-binding" for Veeam Kasten installed in "kasten-io"
$ kubectl delete blueprintbindings.config.kio.kasten.io sample-blueprint-binding --namespace kasten-io
blueprintbinding.config.kio.kasten.io "sample-blueprint-binding" deleted
BlueprintBinding API Type
The following is a complete specification of the BlueprintBinding CR.
# Standard Kubernetes API Version declaration. Required.
apiVersion: config.kio.kasten.io/v1alpha1
# Standard Kubernetes Kind declaration. Required.
kind: BlueprintBinding
# Standard Kubernetes metadata. Required.
metadata:
# BlueprintBinding name. May be any valid Kubernetes object name. Required.
# BlueprintBinding name is not mutable once created.
name: sample-blueprint-binding
# BlueprintBinding names must be unique and as an alternative to name above
# one can take advantage of Kubernetes auto name generation.
generateName: blueprint-binding-
# BlueprintBinding namespace. Required. Must be namespace where Veeam Kasten is installed.
namespace: kasten-io
# BlueprintBinding parameters. Required.
spec:
# Disabled blueprint bindings are ignored by Veeam Kasten. Optional.
# Default: false
disabled: false
# Blueprint to be used by BlueprintBinding. Required.
blueprintRef:
name: my-blueprint
namespace: kasten-io
# Resource selector for which the blueprint will be used. Required
resources:
# Array of resource requirements. Optional.
# A resource must meet all of them to match the selector.
# A resource requirement is a requirement for either type, namespace, annotations, or labels.
# BlueprintBinding must have at least one requirement in matchAll or matchAny.
matchAll:
# Type selector requirement for group, version, resource and name (GVRN). Optional.
- type:
# Operator represents a resource type's relationship to a set of values. Required.
# Valid operators are In and NotIn.
operator: In
# Array of GVRN values. Required.
values:
- group: apps
version: v1
resource: statefulsets
name: mysql
# Namespace selector requirement. Optional.
- namespace:
# Operator represents a resource namespace's relationship to a set of values. Required.
# Valid operators are In, NotIn, Exists and DoesNotExist.
operator: In
# Array of string values. Required if the operator is In or NotIn.
# If the operator is Exists or DoesNotExist, the values array must be empty.
values:
- ns1
- ns2
# Annotation selector requirement that contains a key, values and an operator that
# relates the key and values. Optional.
- annotations:
# Annotation name that the selector applies to. Required.
key: kanister.kasten.io/blueprint
# Operator represents a key's relationship to a set of values. Required.
# Valid operators are In, NotIn, Exists and DoesNotExist.
operator: NotIn
# Array of string values. Required if the operator is In or NotIn.
# If the operator is Exists or DoesNotExist, the values array must be empty.
values:
- "production-blueprint"
# Annotation selector requirement that contains a key, values and an operator that
# relates the key and values. Optional.
- labels:
# Label key that the selector applies to. Required.
key: app
# Operator represents a key's relationship to a set of values. Required.
# Valid operators are In, NotIn, Exists and DoesNotExist.
operator: In
# Array of string values. Required if the operator is In or NotIn.
# If the operator is Exists or DoesNotExist, the values array must be empty.
values:
- "myapp"
# Array of resource requirements. Optional.
# A resource must meet at least one of them to match the selector.
# A resource requirement is a requirement for either type, namespace, annotations, or labels.
# BlueprintBinding must have at least one requirement in matchAll or matchAny.
matchAny:
- # Array items have the same syntax as in matchAll
# Status of the BlueprintBinding. Users should not set any data here.
status:
# Validation status of the BlueprintBinding
# Valid values are:
# # Success - successfully initialized and validated
# # Failed - not properly initialized or validated
# Only blueprint bindings which have status of Success
# (and which are not disabled) will be used by the system
validation: Success
# An array of any validation or initialization errors encountered.
error: null
# Object generation last observed by the controller.
observedGeneration: 2