As in title. I want to clone (create a copy of existing cluster).
If it's not possible to copy/clone Google Container Engine cluster, then how to clone Kubernetes cluster?
If that's not possible, is there a way to dump the whole cluster config?
Note:
I try to modify the cluster's configs by calling:
kubectl apply -f some-resource.yaml
But nothing stops me/other employee modifying the cluster by running:
kubectl edit service/resource
Or setting properties from command line kubectl
calls.
I'm using a bash script from CoreOS team, with small adjustments, that works pretty good. By default it's excluding the kube-system namespace, but you can adjust this if you need. Also you can add or remove the resources you want to copy.
for ns in $(kubectl get ns --no-headers | cut -d " " -f1); do
if { [ "$ns" != "kube-system" ]; }; then
kubectl --namespace="${ns}" get --export -o=json svc,rc,rs,deployments,cm,secrets,ds,statefulsets,ing | \
jq '.items[] |
select(.type!="kubernetes.io/service-account-token") |
del(
.spec.clusterIP,
.metadata.uid,
.metadata.selfLink,
.metadata.resourceVersion,
.metadata.creationTimestamp,
.metadata.generation,
.status,
.spec.template.spec.securityContext,
.spec.template.spec.dnsPolicy,
.spec.template.spec.terminationGracePeriodSeconds,
.spec.template.spec.restartPolicy
)' >> "./my-cluster.json"
fi
done
To restore it on another cluster, you have to execute kubectl create -f ./my-cluster.json
You can now create/clone an existing cluster,
On the Clusters page, click on create cluster and choose an existing cluster. But remember, this will not clone the api-resources you may have to use a third party tool such as Velero to help you backup the resources.
Here are some useful links
- Cluster Creation
- Velero
- Medium Article on How to use Velero