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Ark Config definition

Overview
Example
Parameter Reference
- Main config
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure

Overview

Heptio Ark defines its own Config object (a custom resource) for specifying Ark backup and cloud provider settings. When the Ark server is first deployed, it waits until you create a Config–specifically one named default–in the heptio-ark namespace.

NOTE: There is an underlying assumption that you’re running the Ark server as a Kubernetes deployment. If the default Config is modified, the server shuts down gracefully. Once the kubelet restarts the Ark server pod, the server then uses the updated Config values.

Example

A sample YAML Config looks like the following:

apiVersion: ark.heptio.com/v1
kind: Config
metadata:
  namespace: heptio-ark
  name: default
persistentVolumeProvider:
  aws:
    region: minio
    availabilityZone: minio
    s3ForcePathStyle: true
    s3Url: http://minio:9000
backupStorageProvider:
  bucket: ark
  aws:
    region: minio
    availabilityZone: minio
    s3ForcePathStyle: true
    s3Url: http://minio:9000
backupSyncPeriod: 60m
gcSyncPeriod: 60m
scheduleSyncPeriod: 1m
restoreOnlyMode: false

Parameter Reference

The configurable parameters are as follows:

Main config parameters

Key	Type	Default	Meaning
`persistentVolumeProvider`	CloudProviderConfig(Supported key values are `aws`, `gcp`, and `azure`, but only one can be present. See the corresponding AWS, GCP, and Azure-specific configs.)	Required Field	The specification for whichever cloud provider the cluster is using for persistent volumes (to be snapshotted). NOTE: For Azure, your Kubernetes cluster needs to be version 1.7.2+ in order to support PV snapshotting of its managed disks.
`backupStorageProvider`/(inline)	CloudProviderConfig(Supported key values are `aws`, `gcp`, and `azure`, but only one can be present. See the corresponding AWS, GCP, and Azure-specific configs.)	Required Field	The specification for whichever cloud provider will be used to actually store the backups.
`backupStorageProvider/bucket`	String	Required Field	The storage bucket where backups are to be uploaded.
`backupSyncPeriod`	metav1.Duration	60m0s	How frequently Ark queries the object storage to make sure that the appropriate Backup resources have been created for existing backup files.
`gcSyncPeriod`	metav1.Duration	60m0s	How frequently Ark queries the object storage to delete backup files that have passed their TTL.
`scheduleSyncPeriod`	metav1.Duration	1m0s	How frequently Ark checks its Schedule resource objects to see if a backup needs to be initiated.
`resourcePriorities`	[]string	`[namespaces, persistentvolumes, persistentvolumeclaims, secrets, configmaps]`	An ordered list that describes the order in which Kubernetes resource objects should be restored (also specified with the `<RESOURCE>.<GROUP>` format.If a resource is not in this list, it is restored after all other prioritized resources.
`restoreOnlyMode`	bool	`false`	When RestoreOnly mode is on, functionality for backups, schedules, and expired backup deletion is turned off. Restores are made from existing backup files in object storage.

AWS

(Or other S3-compatible storage)

Key	Type	Default	Meaning
`region`	string	Required Field	Example: “us-east-1"See AWS documentation for the full list.
`availabilityZone`	string	Required Field	Example: “us-east-1a"See AWS documentation for details.
`disableSSL`	bool	`false`	Set this to `true` if you are using Minio (or another local, S3-compatible storage service) and your deployment is not secured.
`s3ForcePathStyle`	bool	`false`	Set this to `true` if you are using a local storage service like Minio.
`s3Url`	string	Required field for non-AWS-hosted storage	Example: http://minio:9000You can specify the AWS S3 URL here for explicitness, but Ark can already generate it from `region`, `availabilityZone`, and `bucket`. This field is primarily for local storage services like Minio.

GCP

Key	Type	Default	Meaning
`project`	string	Required Field	Example: “project-example-3jsn23" See the Project ID documentation for details.
`zone`	string	Required Field	Example: “us-central1-a"See GCP documentation for the full list.

Azure

Key	Type	Default	Meaning
`location`	string	Required Field	Example: “Canada East"See the list of available locations (note that this particular page refers to them as “Regions”).
`apiTimeout`	metav1.Duration	1m0s	How long to wait for an API Azure request to complete before timeout.

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