Azure Cloud AKS
This page describes how to install Trilio for Kubernetes (T4K) in the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environment and get the license for it.
Microsoft Azure Cloud provides the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) as a managed Kubernetes service offering. Trilio for Kubernetes (T4K) supports cluster-scoped installation on the AKS cluster.
Before you proceed with the T4K installation, run the preflight check on the existing AKS cluster. T4K utilizes the Volume Snapshot functionality provided by the CSI driver while performing the backup operation. AKS clusters have preinstalled CSI driver with Volume Snapshot Capability. It is recommanded for the users to run the preflight check tool with the storageclass that is used to provision the persistent volume and validate if it support the VolumeSnapshot capability.
Installation
There are two methods to install Trilio for Kubernetes (T4K) on the AKS cluster-
Azure Commercial Marketplace
kubectl CLI
Azure Commercial Marketplace:
Go to the Azure Marketplace and search the application "Trilio for Kubernetes (BYOL)" or directly click here to go to the T4K application listing page.
Click on the application to open the application details window. Click on the
Get it Now
button.Click on the
Continue
button.You have two options here:
If you have an existing AKS cluster:
Select the existing
Resource Group
from the dropdown and selectNo
option forCreate new AKS cluster
. This will populate your existing AKS clusters in the next steps. Click on theNext: Cluster Details
button.Now, you can select the existing cluster name from the dropdown and click on
Next: Cluster Extension Details>
button.
If you don't have an existing AKS cluster:
Now, you can select the existing
Resource Group
orCreate new
resource group and then selectYes
forCreate new AKS cluster
option and select theRegion
name from the dropdown to deploy the new AKS cluster. Click on theNext: Cluster Details>
buttonEnter the details for the new AKS cluster -
AKS cluster name, Kubernetes Version, VM Size, Enable Auto scaling, VMCount
and click onNext: Cluster Extension Details>
button.
Enter the name of the T4K Manager extension as per the user's choice. For example- tvkoperator. Click on
Next: Review + Create>
buttonIt will validate all the parameters and show the validation success message if everything looks good to deploy.
Click on
Create
button to start the AKS cluster deployment andtvkoperator
extension deployment on the cluster.Once, the deployment is complete, the user will see that both the AKS cluster and
triliovaultmanager
the extension is complete.Wait for some for deployment to complete.
The users can go to the
Resource Group
and log in to the AKS cluster from CLI or check if all the T4K resources are created in thetrilio-system
namespace.The users can check if all the deployments are in
Ready
state.Once all the pods are in
Running
state, we can access the T4K Management console by using theService Type
assigned to theingress-controller
service.
Kubectl CLI:
Microsoft Azure (AKS) Kubernetes offerings leverage upstream Kubernetes. As a result, the installation instructions provided for Getting Started with Trilio for Upstream Kubernetes (K8S)environments can be used for installing T4K on the AKS cluster through CLI.
Once, the installation is complete, users need to contact Trilio to get the T4K license. Follow the Licensing instructions.