snapshot

Volume Snapshots

Overview

This driver implements basic volume snapshotting functionality using the external snapshotter sidecar and creates snapshots of EBS volumes using the VolumeSnapshot custom resources.

Prerequisites

1. Kubernetes 1.13+ (CSI 1.0).

2. The VolumeSnapshotDataSource must be set in --feature-gates= in the kube-apiserver.

3. The aws-ebs-csi-driver driver is installed.

Usage

1. Create the StorageClass and VolumeSnapshotClass:

kubectl apply -f specs/classes/

2. Create a sample app and the PersistentVolumeClaim:

kubectl apply -f specs/app/

3. Validate the volume was created and volumeHandle contains an EBS volumeID:

kubectl describe pv

4. Validate the pod successfully wrote data to the volume, taking note of the timestamp of the first entry:

kubectl exec -it app cat /data/out.txt

5. Create a VolumeSnapshot referencing the PersistentVolumeClaim name:

kubectl apply -f specs/snapshot/

6. Wait for the Ready To Use: true attribute of the VolumeSnapshot:

kubectl describe volumesnapshot.snapshot.storage.k8s.io ebs-volume-snapshot

7. Delete the existing app:

kubectl delete -f specs/app/

8. Restore a volume from the snapshot with a PersistentVolumeClaim referencing the VolumeSnapshot in its dataSource:

kubectl apply -f specs/snapshot-restore/

9. Validate the new pod has the restored data by comparing the timestamp of the first entry to that of in step 4:

kubectl exec -it app cat /data/out.txt

10. Cleanup resources:

kubectl delete -f specs/snapshot-restore
kubectl delete -f specs/snapshot
kubectl delete -f specs/classes