Version: 8.0.5 (latest)

Installing Kasten on AWS Quickstart Guide

This quickstart guide is intended to help users get Kasten installed on an AWS EKS cluster quickly via an IAM Service Account. For more detail on IAM Roles, required permissions, and storage configuration for AWS EKS, refer to the complimentary documentation:

Prerequisites

The following commands can be run to quickly install Kasten on an AWS EKS cluster. To perform the below steps, you will need the following binaries installed on your machine:

You will need the following information to complete the quickstart steps below:

AWS_REGION - AWS Region where the EKS cluster has been deployed
CLUSTER_NAME - The name of the EKS cluster where Kasten is to be installed
Version - the version of Kasten you wish to install (Refer to Release Notes for latest)

Steps

note

All commands were tested and confirmed working using GNU Bash v5.2.37

Add the Kasten repository to helm

helm repo add kasten https://charts.kasten.io/

Create a namespace named kasten-io

kubectl create namespace kasten-io

Associate the AWS IAM provider with the EKS cluster

eksctl utils associate-iam-oidc-provider --region=<AWS_REGION> --cluster=<CLUSTER_NAME> --approve

Create the AWS IAM Service account named k10-k10

eksctl create iamserviceaccount \
    --name k10-k10 \
    --namespace kasten-io \
    --cluster <CLUSTER_NAME> \
    --attach-policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSMarketplaceMeteringFullAccess \
    --attach-policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSMarketplaceMeteringRegisterUsage \
    --attach-policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSLicenseManagerConsumptionPolicy \
    --approve \
    --override-existing-serviceaccounts

Authenticate to the Elastic Container Registry

aws ecr get-login-password \
    --region <AWS_REGION> | helm registry login \
    --username AWS \
    --password-stdin 709825985650.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Create a directory (if it doesn't already exist) on the local machine named awsmp-chart and change into that directory

mkdir -p awsmp-chart && cd awsmp-chart

Pull down a local version of the Kasten helm chart

helm pull oci://709825985650.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/veeam/kasten/payg/k10 --version 8.0.5

Untar the helm chart within the awsmp-chart directory

tar xf $(pwd)/* && find $(pwd) -maxdepth 1 -type f -delete

Perform the installation via helm using the chart for AWS EKS that is pulled locally

helm install k10 \
    --namespace kasten-io ./* \
    --set serviceAccount.create=false \
    --set serviceAccount.name=k10-k10 

Once complete, you can refer to the steps on Validating the Install.

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