Installing Veeam Kasten on K3S

Prerequisites

Before installing Veeam Kasten on k3s, please ensure that the install prerequisites are met.

Installing Veeam Kasten

To install Veeam Kasten on k3s, you also need to annotate the default VolumeSnapshotClass as specified in our CSI documentation.

$ helm install k10 kasten/k10 --namespace=kasten-io
$ kubectl annotate volumesnapshotclass \
    $(kubectl get volumesnapshotclass -o=jsonpath='{.items[?(@.metadata.annotations.snapshot\.storage\.kubernetes\.io\/is-default-class=="true")].metadata.name}') \
    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.