T4K Target Browser Plugin

This page describes the T4K target browser plugin that enables users to query the location where backups are stored.

Deprecated Documentation

This document is deprecated and no longer supported. For accurate, up-to-date information, please refer to the documentation for the latest version of Trilio.

# T4K Target Browser Plugin

Introduction

tvk-target-browser plugin queries content of mounted target location to get details of backup, backupPlan and metadata details of backup via HTTP/HTTPS calls to target-browser server. Plugin currently supports GET operation on target-browser's /backupplan, /backup, /metadata, /resource-metadata, and /trilio-resources API.

Prerequisites

  1. krew - kubectl-plugin manager. Install from here.

  2. kubectl - kubernetes command-line tool. Install from here.

  3. Target CR should have browsingEnabled field set to true in status

    • CLI Users can check JSON path - target.status.browsingEnabled

    • T4K-UI Users should follow steps:

      1. Click on Resource Management from the left navigation bar.

      2. In Resource Management, Backup Plans tab will be selected by default.

      3. Click on Targets tab.

      4. Look for the required target name in the list and ensure that in Browsing column toggle is Enabled for that target.

  4. T4K's web-backend service should be up and running.

  5. T4K's target-browser ingress path[spec.rules[*].host] should be accessible.

    1. If there's no DNS record for `k8s-triliovault-ingress-nginx-controller` service IP and ingress host path then, create one for it on your local system[`/etc/hosts`].

    2. If k8s-triliovault-ingress-nginx-controller service is NodePort type then, make sure NodePort is properly exposed from firewall of all cluster nodes.

Supported OS and Architectures:

  • linux/amd64

  • linux/x86

  • linux/arm

  • linux/arm64

  • darwin/amd64

  • darwin/arm64

  • windows/amd64

Installation, Upgrade, Removal of Plugins:

With krew:

  • Add T4K custom plugin index of krew:

    kubectl krew index add tvk-plugins https://github.com/trilioData/tvk-plugins.git

  • Installation:

    kubectl krew install tvk-plugins/tvk-target-browser

  • Upgrade:

    kubectl krew upgrade tvk-target-browser

  • Removal:

    kubectl krew uninstall tvk-target-browser

Without krew:

  1. List of available releases: https://github.com/trilioData/tvk-plugins/releases

  2. Choose a version of target-browser plugin to install and check if release assets have target-browser plugin's package [target-browser_${version}${OS}${ARCH}.tar.gz] for your desired OS & Architecture.

    • To check OS & Architecture, execute command uname -a on linux/macOS and systeminfo on windows

  3. Set env variable version=v1.x.x [update with your desired version]. If version is not exported, latest tagged version will be considered.

Linux/macOS

Bash or ZSH shells:

(
  set -ex; cd "$(mktemp -d)" &&
  OS="$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')" &&
  ARCH="$(uname -m | sed -e 's/x86_64/amd64/' -e 's/\(arm\)\(64\)\?.*/\1\2/' -e 's/aarch64$/arm64/')" &&
  if [[ -z ${version} ]]; then version=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/trilioData/tvk-plugins/releases/latest | grep -oP '"tag_name": "\K(.*)(?=")'); fi &&
  echo "Installing version=${version}" &&
  package_name="target-browser_${version}_${OS}_${ARCH}.tar.gz" &&
  curl -fsSLO "https://github.com/trilioData/tvk-plugins/releases/download/"${version}"/${package_name}" &&
  tar zxvf ${package_name} && sudo mv target-browser /usr/local/bin/kubectl-tvk_target_browser
)

Verify installation with: kubectl tvk-target-browser --help

Windows

  1. Download target-browser_${version}_windows_${ARCH}.zip from the Releases page to a directory and unzip the package.

  2. Launch a command prompt (target-browser.exe).

Usage:

  • Check usage, available commands and flags -

    kubectl tvk-target-browser --help
kubectl tvk-target-browser get --help
kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup --help
kubectl tvk-target-browser get backupPlan --help
kubectl tvk-target-browser get metadata --help

Examples

  • Get list of backups:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup --backup-plan-uid <uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • Get list of backups using HTTPS:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup --backup-plan-uid <uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace> --use-https --certificate-authority <certificate-path>

  • Get list of backups for backupPlan:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup --backup-plan-uid <uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • Get list of backups for backupPlan using HTTPS:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup --backup-plan-uid <uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace> --use-https --certificate-authority <certificate-path>

  • Get specific backup:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup <backup-uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • List of backups in Single Namespace:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup --operation-scope SingleNamespace --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • List of backups in Multi Namespace/Cluster Scope:

     kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup --operation-scope MultiNamespace --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • Get list of backupPlans:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backupPlan --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • Get specific backupPlan:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backupPlan <backup-plan-uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • List of backupPlans in Single Namespace:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backupPlan --operation-scope SingleNamespace --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • List of backupPlans in Multi Namespace/Cluster Scope:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backupPlan --operation-scope MultiNamespace --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • Get metadata of specific backup:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get metadata --backup-uid <uid> --backup-plan-uid <uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • Get metadata of specific backup using HTTPS:

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get metadata --backup-uid <uid> --backup-plan-uid <uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace> --use-https --certificate-authority <certificate-path>

  • Get resource metadata of specific backup

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get resource-metadata --backup-uid <uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace> --group <group> --version <version> --kind <kind> --name <resource-name>

  • Get resource metadata of specific backup and backupPlan

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get resource-metadata --backup-uid <uid> --backup-plan-uid <uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace> --group <group> --version <version> --kind <kind> --name <resource-name>

  • Get resource metadata of specific backup using HTTPS

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get resource-metadata --backup-uid <uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace> --group <group> --version <version> --kind <kind> --name <resource-name> --use-https --certificate-authority <certificate-path>

  • Get trilio resources for specific backup

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup trilio-resources <backup-uid> --kinds ClusterBackupPlan,Backup,Hook --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • Get trilio resources for specific backup and backupPlan

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup trilio-resources <backup-uid> --backup-plan-uid <uid> --kinds ClusterBackupPlan,Backup,Hook --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • List of backups: filter by [expirationStartTime] and [expirationEndTime]

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup --expiration-start-time <expiration-start-time> --expiration-end-time <expiration-end-time> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • List of backups: filter by [creationStartTime] and [creationEndTime]

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup --creation-start-time <creation-start-time> --creation-end-time <creation-end-time> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • List of backupPlans: filter by [creationStartTime] and [creationEndTime]

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backupPlan --creation-start-time <creation-start-time> --creation-end-time <creation-end-time>--target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • List of backupPlans: filter by [tvkInstanceUID]

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backupPlan --tvk-instance-uid <uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • List of backupPlans: filter by [tvkInstanceName]

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backupPlan --tvk-instance-name <name> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • List of backups: filter by [tvkInstanceUID]

      kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup --tvk-instance-uid <uid> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

  • List of backups: filter by [tvkInstanceName]

    kubectl tvk-target-browser get backup --tvk-instance-name <name> --target-name <name> --target-namespace <namespace>

Find more examples and usage of each command & flag with --help for each tvk-target-browser command. Refer, Usage section.

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