Preparing to install

Prerequisites

• Get familiarized with the architecture reading this section.
• The Secret provided by AstroKube to access the Image Registry.
• The Secret provided by AstroKube with the license key.

Cluster requiremenets

Supported platforms

Astronetes Resiliency Operator is vendor agnostic meaning that any Kubernetes distribution such as Google Kubernetes Engine, Azure Kubernetes Service, OpenShift or self-managed bare metal installations can run it.

This is the certified compatibility matrix:

Permissions

To install the Resiliency Operator on a cluster, you need to have Cluster Admin permissions in that cluster.

The Resiliency Operator needs read access to the assets being protected and read/write access to the backup assets. Refer to plugin documentation for details.

Kubernetes requirements

Software

• Official kubernetes.io client CLI kubectl.

Networking

• Allow traffic to the Image Registry quay.io/astrokube using the mechanism provided by the chosen distribution.

OpenShift requirements

Software

• Official OpenShift client CLI.

Networking

• Add quay.io/astrokube to the allowed registries in the Image configuration.

apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1
kind: Image
metadata:
    ...
spec:
  registrySources: 
    allowedRegistries: 
    ...
    - quay.io/astrokube