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Proxmox Lab with ZimaBlade

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

According to the latest news from Veeam, where support for Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) was announced and before the update was released, I started reviewing how to put together a small lab to install Proxmox on physical machines and avoid doing nested virtualization in vSphere. In this post we will see what servers I am using and how this solution works.

How to install Kasten K10 on Azure AKS

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Continuing with the series of guides for the protection of applications on cloud services, Kubernetes in public clouds, now it’s Microsoft Azure’s turn Kubernetes Service or Azure AKS, where we will review step by step the installation, configuration and execution of backup policies with Kasten K10, integrating the console with K10 Multi-Cluster Manager for centralized management and protection of applications in AKS.

How to Integrate Active Directory with Kasten K10 and OpenShift

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this post, we will review how to configure Kasten K10 installed via Operator for Red Hat Openshift to integrate the Authentikation of Microsoft Active Directory to access the console of K10 with Dex.

How to use Kasten K10 with Google Anthos

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

One of the architectures that are used in multiple clients with hybrid infrastructure is Google Anthos, a beautiful technology that allows to deploy clusters of Kubernetes in different environments using Google settings Kubernetes Engine, GKE, as well as adding other distributions to Google Anthos from different providers or public clouds. In this post, we will review the Anthos architecture and where to install Kasten K10 to protect applications.

How to Configure NFS Repository for Kasten K10

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

One of the options that many companies use to host their backups is NFS, in this guide, we will review how to configure an NFS Profile to be used by Kasten K10, in accordance with the good practices that are indicated in the documentation of Kasten.

Kasten K10 Authentik

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

One of the characteristics of Kasten K10 most used, is the integration with centralized Authentikation and identity systems, through different protocols, for the management of access to the different clusters of kubernetes using RBAC by means of K10 and/or for the access of K10 Multi-Cluster in environments with multiple clusters of kubernetes. In this post, we will review the easy setup of Authentik and integration with Kasten K10.

Configure Email Alerts in Kasten K10

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In this guide we will review the installation and configuration of prometheus in order to obtain alerts via email using the federation, rules and alertmanager of prometheus in conjunction with the monitoring of Kasten K10.

How to Install vSphere CSI Driver on RedHat OpenShift 4.x

Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

One of the recurring queries we have lately is how to configure the vSphere CSI Driver in environments OpenShift 4.x without the need to use the operator that VMWare already developed, but that is only supported for production from version 4.10 of OpenShiftTherefore, in this guide we will review how to install and configure the driver in versions prior to 4.10 without the need to use the VMware operator.

How to install Kasten K10 at Google GKE

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

According to the latest surveys by cncf.io and other companies, one of the most used services is Google Kubernetes Engine, GKE, therefore, as expected, it is always necessary to protect the applications that run on these types of services, as well as the use of Google’s infrastructure to store backups. In this guide we will see how to install Kasten K10 to protect applications running on GKE and also integrate it with K10 Multi-Cluster Manager.

How to install Kasten K10 on AWS EKS

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most widely used cloud-native services are cloud-orchestrated containers. Kubernetes, where public cloud services are one of the most used for this type of workload. In fact, in one of the 2020 cncf.io surveys, it shows us that about 60% of users / companies use cloud-native storage for their containers directly from Google (81%), AWS (80%) and Azure ( 74%), surely these percentages have changed over the years. That is why in this post we will review how to protect all containers in AWS EKS.

Kasten RBAC Multi-Tenant Multi-Cluster Keycloak – 1

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In this post, we will look at Role Based Access Control (RBAC) configuration in conjunction with Kasten K10 for access to one or multiple clusters protected by Kasten, is aimed both at clients who manage 1 or more clusters of any distribution of kubernetes supported by K10, as well as to service providers (SP or MSP) that offer the support of containers of kubernetes with Kasten K10, with the aim of providing controlled access to users / clients according to the granular roles required by each cluster or operation. We will also use a Single Sign-On (SSO) solution using OpenID in this case, Keycloak, for the centralized management of access credentials for either users or groups.

Kasten RBAC Multi-Tenant Multi-Cluster Keycloak – 2

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent topic we’re reviewing — in the previous post we reviewed everything related to configuring Keycloak for centralized user management through OpenID, preparing it for integration with Kasten K10 and Kasten K10 Multi-Cluster Manager. So in this post we will go through step-by-step configuration of the ClusterRoles, Roles and groups needed to manage Kasten K10 via RBAC.

Kasten RBAC Multi-Tenant Multi-Cluster Keycloak – 3

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

And we continue with this excellent topic that we are reviewing, in the previous post we reviewed everything related to the configuration of clusterroles, roles, bindings for Kasten K10, creating cluster roles for Administrators and for Operators of a particular cluster. In this last post we will see the configuration of roles, clusterroles, bindings with Kasten K10 Multi-Cluster Manager and of course with Keycloak for the management of Users and Groups.

Install Kasten Multi Cluster Manager

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In this guide we will review how to install Kasten Multi-Cluster Manager for the management and protection of containers from multiple clusters of kubernetes in different environments with centralized resource management. Usually in most companies that maintain application development teams there are different types of environments such as Development, QA and Production, in other companies they also manage Pre-Production, Staging, UAT, etc. environments. In the same way everything depends a lot on the development life cycle as well as the architectures of each company, this is why with Kasten Multi-Cluster Manager we will be able to achieve the protection of multiple environments and/or clusters of kubernetes.

Install Cluster Kubernetes with vSphere CSI

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In this guide we will review the installation and configuration of a cluster Kubernetes on Ubuntu 20.04 using containerd, calico, performing the integration via vSphere CSI (Container Storage Interface) to provide the persistent volumes for the containers that will work in the cluster. We will also use MetalLB as a load balancer to access our services.

Red Hat OpenShift in vSphere with Kasten

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most used platforms in companies for the management, operation and maintenance of Containers is Red Hat OpenShift, in the following guide we will review how to protect our containers in Red Hat OpenShift 4.x integrated VMware vSphere through its Container Storage Interface with Kasten K10 Platform, configuring routes to access the administration interface of K10 and using Minio S3 as backup destination.

Kasten K10 Multi-Cluster

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In the latest version of Kasten, 3.0.1, we can find a series of improvements and an extremely important solution, the centralized administration of Multiple Clusters of Kubernetes For complete data protection, in this post we will see the features and functionalities of k10multicluster.

Upgrading Kasten k10

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In this next post, we will see how easy it is to upgrade Kasten to new versions to gain new features as well as, of course, bug fixes.

Veeam + Kasten

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Great news! The acquisition of Kasten by Veeam Software, which extends the benefits of data protection of Veeam in modern data centers with container technologies using Kubernetes or k8s. In this post we will see the installation, configuration and recovery of containers with Kasten in a cluster of Kubernetes based on tanzu Kubernetes grid.