Kubernetes Cluster Backup - Easy Way

Resource Configuration Backup

kube-apiserver

kubectl get all --all-namespaces -o yaml > all-services.yaml

ETCD Cluster Backup

Backup of data directory

etcd.services
..
..
--data-dir=/var/lib/etcd

OR

### Backup by ETCD backup command line 1- Take snapshot with certs

ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl snapshot save snapshot.db \
--endpoints=https://127.0.0.1:2379 \
--cacert=/etc/etcd/ca.crt \
--cert=/etc/etcd/etcd-server.crt \
--key=/etc/etcd/etcd-server.key

2- Check status

ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl snapshot status snapshot.db

Restore ETCD

1- Stop kube-apiserver

service kube-apiserver stop

2- Restor snapshot with new token-id as etcd-cluster-1

ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl snapshot restore snapshot.db \
--data-dir /var/lib/etcd-backup \
--initial-cluster master-1=https://10.10.10.90:2380, master-2=https://10.10.10.91:2380 \
--initial-token-cluster etcd-cluster-1 \
--initial-advertise-peer-url https://${INTERNAL_IP}:2380

3- Change new token and data directory in etcd.service file and check data-dir

etcd.service
--initial-cluster-token etcd-cluster-1
--data-dir=/var/lib/etcd

4- Reload daemon, restart etcd, start kube-apiserver

systemctl daemon-relod
service etcd restart
service kube-apiserver start

Backup for fully-managed Cluster

Consider you do not have access to ETCT or Master node
Following shell script you can use to take backup of running resources in your cluster. You can restore that by simply applying that files on your new cluster or existing cluster (gke, eks, aks, iks etc)

i=$((0))
for n in $(kubectl get -o=custom-columns=NAMESPACE:.metadata.namespace,KIND:.kind,NAME:.metadata.name pv,pvc,configmap,ingress,service,secret,deployment,statefulset,hpa,job,cronjob --all-namespaces | grep -v 'secrets/default-token')
do
	if (( $i < 1 )); then
		namespace=$n
		i=$(($i+1))
		if [[ "$namespace" == "PersistentVolume" ]]; then
			kind=$n
			i=$(($i+1))
		fi
	elif (( $i < 2 )); then
		kind=$n
		i=$(($i+1))
	elif (( $i < 3 )); then
		name=$n
		i=$((0))
		echo "saving ${namespace} ${kind} ${name}"
		if [[ "$namespace" != "NAMESPACE" ]]; then
			mkdir -p $namespace
			kubectl get $kind -o=yaml $name -n $namespace > $namespace/$kind.$name.yaml
		fi
	fi
done