Installing Veeam Kasten on DigitalOcean
Prerequisites
Before installing Veeam Kasten on DigitalOcean, please ensure that the install prerequisites are met.
Installing Veeam Kasten
To install Veeam Kasten on DigitalOcean, you also need to annotate the VolumeSnapshotClass as specified in our CSI documentation.
$ helm install k10 kasten/k10 --namespace=kasten-io
$ kubectl annotate volumesnapshotclass do-block-storage k10.kasten.io/is-snapshot-class=true
Validating the Install
To validate that Veeam Kasten has been installed properly, the
following command can be run in Veeam Kasten's namespace (the
install default is kasten-io
) to watch for the status of
all Veeam Kasten pods:
$ kubectl get pods --namespace kasten-io --watch
It may take a couple of minutes for all pods to come up but all pods
should ultimately display the status of Running
.
$ kubectl get pods --namespace kasten-io
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kasten-io aggregatedapis-svc-b45d98bb5-w54pr 1/1 Running 0 1m26s
kasten-io auth-svc-8549fc9c59-9c9fb 1/1 Running 0 1m26s
kasten-io catalog-svc-f64666fdf-5t5tv 2/2 Running 0 1m26s
...
In the unlikely scenario that pods that are stuck in any other state, please follow the support documentation to debug further.
Validate Dashboard Access
By default, the Veeam Kasten dashboard will not be exposed externally.
To establish a connection to it, use the following kubectl
command
to forward a local port to the Veeam Kasten ingress port:
$ kubectl --namespace kasten-io port-forward service/gateway 8080:80
The Veeam Kasten dashboard will be available at http://127.0.0.1:8080/k10/#/.
For a complete list of options for accessing the Kasten Veeam Kasten dashboard through a LoadBalancer, Ingress or OpenShift Route you can use the instructions here.