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Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

Stash supports Google Cloud Storage(GCS) as a backend. This tutorial will show you how to configure Restic and storage Secret for GCS backend.

Create Storage Secret

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

KeyDescription
RESTIC_PASSWORDRequired. Password used to encrypt snapshots by restic
GOOGLE_PROJECT_IDRequired. Google Cloud project ID
GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON_KEYRequired. Google Cloud service account json key

Create storage secret as below,

$ echo -n 'changeit' > RESTIC_PASSWORD
$ echo -n '<your-project-id>' > GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID
$ mv downloaded-sa-json.key GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON_KEY
$ kubectl create secret generic gcs-secret \
    --from-file=./RESTIC_PASSWORD \
    --from-file=./GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID \
    --from-file=./GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON_KEY
secret "gcs-secret" created

Verify that the secret has been created with respective keys,

$ kubectl get secret gcs-secret -o yaml

apiVersion: v1
data:
  GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID: PHlvdXItcHJvamVjdC1pZD4=
  GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON_KEY: ewogICJ0eXBlIjogInNlcnZpY2VfYWNjb3V...9tIgp9Cg==
  RESTIC_PASSWORD: Y2hhbmdlaXQ=
kind: Secret
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: 2017-06-28T13:06:51Z
  name: gcs-secret
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "5461"
  selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/secrets/gcs-secret
  uid: a6983b00-5c02-11e7-bb52-08002711f4aa
type: Opaque

Configure Restic

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

Following parameters are available for gcs backend.

ParameterDescription
gcs.bucketRequired. Name of Bucket. If the bucket does not exist yet, it will be created in the default location (US). It is not possible at the moment to have restic create a new bucket in a different location, so you need to create it using a different program.
gcs.prefixOptional. Path prefix into bucket where repository will be created.

Below, the YAML for Restic crd configured to use GCS bucket.

apiVersion: stash.appscode.com/v1alpha1
kind: Restic
metadata:
  name: gcs-restic
  namespace: default
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: gcs-restic
  fileGroups:
  - path: /source/data
    retentionPolicyName: 'keep-last-5'
  backend:
    gcs:
      bucket: stash-qa
      prefix: demo
    storageSecretName: gcs-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 gcs backend,

$ kubectl apply -f https://github.com/stashed/docs/raw/v2021.10.11/docs/examples/backends/gcs/gcs-restic.yaml
restic "gcs-restic" created

Next Steps

  • Learn how to use Stash in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) from here.
  • Learn how to use Stash to backup a Kubernetes deployment from here.
  • Learn how to recover from backed up snapshot from here.