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OpenStack Swift

Stash supports OpenStack Swift as backend. This tutorial will show you how to configure Restic and storage Secret for Swift backend.

Create Storage Secret

To configure storage secret this backend, following secret keys are needed:

KeyDescription
RESTIC_PASSWORDRequired. Password used to encrypt snapshots by restic
ST_AUTHFor keystone v1 authentication
ST_USERFor keystone v1 authentication
ST_KEYFor keystone v1 authentication
OS_AUTH_URLFor keystone v2 authentication
OS_REGION_NAMEFor keystone v2 authentication
OS_USERNAMEFor keystone v2 authentication
OS_PASSWORDFor keystone v2 authentication
OS_TENANT_IDFor keystone v2 authentication
OS_TENANT_NAMEFor keystone v2 authentication
OS_AUTH_URLFor keystone v3 authentication
OS_REGION_NAMEFor keystone v3 authentication
OS_USERNAMEFor keystone v3 authentication
OS_PASSWORDFor keystone v3 authentication
OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAMEFor keystone v3 authentication
OS_PROJECT_NAMEFor keystone v3 authentication
OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAMEFor keystone v3 authentication
OS_STORAGE_URLFor authentication based on tokens
OS_AUTH_TOKENFor authentication based on tokens

Create storage secret as below,

$ echo -n 'changeit' > RESTIC_PASSWORD
$ echo -n '<your-auth-url>' > OS_AUTH_URL
$ echo -n '<your-tenant-id>' > OS_TENANT_ID
$ echo -n '<your-tenant-name>' > OS_TENANT_NAME
$ echo -n '<your-username>' > OS_USERNAME
$ echo -n '<your-password>' > OS_PASSWORD
$ echo -n '<your-region>' > OS_REGION_NAME
$ kubectl create secret generic swift-secret \
    --from-file=./RESTIC_PASSWORD \
    --from-file=./OS_AUTH_URL \
    --from-file=./OS_TENANT_ID \
    --from-file=./OS_TENANT_NAME \
    --from-file=./OS_USERNAME \
    --from-file=./OS_PASSWORD \
    --from-file=./OS_REGION_NAME
secret "swift-secret" created

Verify that the secret has been created with respective keys,

$ kubectl get secret swift-secret -o yaml

apiVersion: v1
data:
  OS_AUTH_URL: PHlvdXItYXV0aC11cmw+
  OS_PASSWORD: PHlvdXItcGFzc3dvcmQ+
  OS_REGION_NAME: PHlvdXItcmVnaW9uPg==
  OS_TENANT_ID: PHlvdXItdGVuYW50LWlkPg==
  OS_TENANT_NAME: PHlvdXItdGVuYW50LW5hbWU+
  OS_USERNAME: PHlvdXItdXNlcm5hbWU+
  RESTIC_PASSWORD: Y2hhbmdlaXQ=
kind: Secret
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: 2017-07-03T19:17:39Z
  name: swift-secret
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "36381"
  selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/secrets/swift-secret
  uid: 47b4bcab-6024-11e7-879a-080027726d6b
type: Opaque

Configure Restic

Now, you have to configure Restic crd to use OpenStack swift backend. You have to provide previously created storage secret in spec.backend.storageSecretName field.

Following parameters are available for Swift backend.

ParameterDescription
swift.containerRequired. Name of Storage container
swift.prefixOptional. Path prefix into bucket where repository will be created.

Below, the YAML for Restic crd configured to use Swift backend.

apiVersion: stash.appscode.com/v1alpha1
kind: Restic
metadata:
  name: swift-restic
  namespace: default
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: swift-restic
  fileGroups:
  - path: /source/data
    retentionPolicyName: 'keep-last-5'
  backend:
    swift:
      container: stashqa
      prefix: demo
    storageSecretName: swift-secret
  schedule: '@every 1m'
  volumeMounts:
  - mountPath: /source/data
    name: source-data
  retentionPolicies:
  - name: 'keep-last-5'
    keepLast: 5
    prune: true

Now, create the Restic we have configured above for swift backend,

$ kubectl apply -f https://github.com/stashed/docs/raw/v2021.04.12/docs/examples/backends/swift/swift-restic.yaml
restic "swift-restic" created

Next Steps

  • Learn how to use Stash to backup a Kubernetes deployment from here.
  • Learn how to recover from backed up snapshot from here.