Install Stash Enterprise Edition

Stash Enterprise edition is the closed-sourced version of Stash. It comes with all the functionalities of Stash Community edition as well as some advanced features such as Auto-Backup, Batch Backup, and Local Backend support, etc. A full features comparison between Stash Enterprise Edition and community version can be found here.

If you are willing to try Stash Enterprise Edition, you can grab a 7 days trial license from here.

Get a Trial License

In this section, we are going to show you how you can get a 7 days trial license for Stash Enterprise edition. You can get a license for your Kubernetes cluster by going through the following steps:

• At first, go to AppsCode License Server and fill up the form. It will ask for your Name, Email, the product you want to install, and your cluster ID (UID of the kube-system namespace).
• Provide your name and email address. You must provide your work email address.
• Then, select Stash Enterprise Edition in the product field.
• Now, provide your cluster ID. You can get your cluster ID easily by running the following command:

kubectl get ns kube-system -o=jsonpath='{.metadata.uid}'

• Then, you have to agree with the terms and conditions. We recommend reading it before checking the box.
• Now, you can submit the form. After you submit the form, the AppsCode License server will send an email to the provided email address with a link to your license file.
• Navigate to the provided link and save the license into a file. Here, we save the license to a license.txt file.

Here is a screenshot of the license form.

You can create licenses for as many clusters as you want. You can upgrade your license any time without re-installing Stash by following the upgrading guide from here.

Stash licensing process has been designed to work with CI/CD workflow. You can automatically obtain a license from your CI/CD pipeline by following the guide from here.

Get an Enterprise License

If you are interested in purchasing Enterprise license, please contact us via [email protected] for further discussion. You can also set up a meeting via our calendly link.

If you are willing to purchasing Enterprise license but need more time to test in your dev cluster, feel free to contact [email protected]. We will be happy to extend your trial period.

Install

Stash operator can be installed as a Helm chart or simply as Kubernetes manifests.

• Helm 3 (Recommended)
• Helm 2
• YAML

$ helm repo add appscode https://charts.appscode.com/stable/
$ helm repo update
$ helm search repo appscode/stash-enterprise --version v2020.08.26-rc.0
NAME                       CHART VERSION         APP VERSION         DESCRIPTION
appscode/stash-enterprise  v2020.08.26-rc.0    v2020.08.26-rc.0  Stash Enterprise by AppsCode - Enterprise features for Stash

$ helm install stash appscode/stash-enterprise  \
  --version v2020.08.26-rc.0                  \
  --namespace kube-system                       \
  --set-file license=/path/to/the/license.txt

$ helm repo add appscode https://charts.appscode.com/stable/
$ helm repo update
$ helm search appscode/stash-enterprise --version v2020.08.26-rc.0
NAME                      CHART VERSION APP      VERSION             DESCRIPTION
appscode/stash-enterprise  v2020.08.26-rc.0    v2020.08.26-rc.0  Stash by AppsCode - Backup your Kubernetes Volumes

$ helm install appscode/stash-enterprise --name stash   \
  --version v2020.08.26-rc.0                          \
  --namespace kube-system                               \
  --set-file license=/path/to/the/license.txt

$ helm repo add appscode https://charts.appscode.com/stable/
$ helm repo update
$ helm search repo appscode/stash-enterprise --version v2020.08.26-rc.0
NAME                       CHART VERSION         APP VERSION         DESCRIPTION
appscode/stash-enterprise  v2020.08.26-rc.0    v2020.08.26-rc.0  Stash by AppsCode - Backup your Kubernetes Volumes

$ helm template stash appscode/stash-enterprise \
  --version v2020.08.26-rc.0                  \
  --namespace kube-system                       \
  --set-file license=/path/to/the/license.txt   \
  --no-hooks | kubectl apply -f -

Verify installation

To check if Stash operator pods have started, run the following command:

$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -l app.kubernetes.io/name=stash-enterprise --watch

NAMESPACE     NAME                                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-system   stash-enterprise-568c884795-hzbgg   2/2     Running   0          5h35m

Once the operator pod is running, you can cancel the above command by typing Ctrl+C.

Now, to confirm CRD groups have been registered by the operator, run the following command:

$ kubectl get crd -l app.kubernetes.io/name=stash

NAME                                      CREATED AT
backupbatches.stash.appscode.com          2020-08-24T08:20:54Z
backupblueprints.stash.appscode.com       2020-08-24T08:20:55Z
backupconfigurations.stash.appscode.com   2020-08-24T08:20:54Z
backupsessions.stash.appscode.com         2020-08-24T08:20:55Z
functions.stash.appscode.com              2020-08-24T08:20:55Z
recoveries.stash.appscode.com             2020-08-24T08:20:54Z
repositories.stash.appscode.com           2020-08-24T08:20:54Z
restics.stash.appscode.com                2020-08-24T08:20:54Z
restorebatches.stash.appscode.com         2020-08-24T08:20:55Z
restoresessions.stash.appscode.com        2020-08-24T08:20:55Z
tasks.stash.appscode.com                  2020-08-24T08:20:55Z

Now, you are ready to take your first backup using Stash.