Zadara Kubernetes Operator
Zadara Operator (zOperator) enables storage provisioning services via Zadara's CSI driver and data management capabilities for K8s applications.
Table of Contents
Overview
The Zadara Operator provides storage and data management for K8s stateful applications as a cloud-native service, while leveraging Zadara's enterprise grade Storage-as-a-Service VPSA for provisioning and managing persistent storage.
Zadara Operator provides:
- Zadara CSI driver automatic installation and management
- Automatic K8s application discovery.
- Application protection using an intelligent and efficient snapshots mechanism.
- Custom snapshots scheduling for application protection.
- Instant application clone.
- CLI for centralized management for Zadara's K8s assets.
- Migrate application from one cluster to another.
About Zadara
Zadara provides companies and service providers agile, secure enterprise storage as a consumption-based service. Any location, any data type, any protocol. Zadara offers resource isolation, exceptional security, and management control.
More information at https://www.zadara.com/
Installation
Zadara Custom Resources
Custom resources are extensions of the Kubernetes API. This page discusses when to add a custom resource to your Kubernetes cluster and when to use a standalone service. It describes the two methods for adding custom resources and how to choose between them.
Zadara's config Zadara Custom Resources.
Operator Configuration
Zadara Operator (zOperator) is configured using a K8s ConfigMap; Read more about Zadara's Config Map.
CLI
Zadara K8s CLI provides centralized management for Zadara's K8s assets. The CLI allows managing applications, snapshots & clones. the CLI also allows controlling and manage the Operator like viewing the status of the cluster, managing Operator configuration, viewing CSI/Operator logs and more. In addition, the CLI support helper commands such as managing storageclass & volumes.
Install
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If zOperator installed on your cluster, you may copy CLI from it:
POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods -A -l name=zoperator -o custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name --no-headers=true) POD_NAMESPACE=$(kubectl get pods -A -l name=zoperator -o custom-columns=NAMESPACE:.metadata.namespace --no-headers=true) kubectl cp $POD_NAMESPACE/$POD_NAME:zadara /usr/local/bin/zadara && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/zadara -
You may also download the CLI (for Linux) from here and copy it to '/usr/local/bin/zadara'.
Shell Completion
Zadara CLI can generate shell completions for multiple shells. The currently supported shells are:
- Bash
- Zsh
- Fish
- PowerShell
To enable autocomplete for your shell, run zadara completion --help and follow the instructions.
More information at Documentation
CSI Driver
Zadara provides a CSI driver for seamless volume provisioning. More information at https://github.com/zadarastorage/zadara-csi
Contact Us
Got a question? we love to help - email us at k8s@zadara.com or visit https://support.zadarastorage.com.