TL;DR: If you’re using s beyond dev/test, that is, in production you need a strategy for restoring and upgrading clusters. ReShifter is a WIP aiming at you with these operations. Kubernete supporting A Kubernetes cluster admin has a lot of responsibility … Are you using Kubernetes beyond development and testing, in a production setup? Would you like to be able to back up and restore your entire Kubernetes cluster (automatically) and restore it with a single action? What about upgrading to a new version of Kubernetes? Can you do this without downtimes? If you found yourself nodding along and/or answering to any of the above questions, do read on. Yes While in managed environments such as GKE or OpenShift Online you don’t have issues around restoring cluster state or upgrading to a new Kubernetes version, on-premises setups or deployments into the public cloud, where you’re operating the cluster yourself will present you with this challenge. Having said this, meet , the cluster admin backup and restore tool for Kubernetes and OpenShift. Note that ReShifter is early days, it’s at time of writing not more than an MVP with minimal functionality. Major parts such as installation, setting up in cluster, running scheduled backups and many more are still missing. However, I decided to share ReShifter with you now because I need and want your feedback: what functionality is the most important one to you? What is missing for a 1.0 release? Please leave a comment here, on , at the , or hit me up . ReShifter GitHub screen cast on Loom on Twitter What I have in the ReShifter MVP so far is: a simple, but more or less stable, HTTP API a bare-bone UI support for insecure and secure etcd v2, with support for v3 in the works can create a cluster backup, stored in local filesystem can restore a backup from local filesystem can download a backup The whole thing looks like this : in action Screen cast available via . Loom OK, that’s it. Thanks for your time and attention and hope to hear back from you!
