Prepare Application Clusters for Onboarding

Applicable to both Classic and Federated modes

Before you onboard an application cluster to Portworx Backup, prepare the cluster so that Portworx Backup can perform backup and restore operations on it. This includes adding service accounts, configuring the admin namespace, granting namespace access to non-admin users, configuring Stork, and configuring access to an S3 object store.

The following topics help you prepare application clusters for onboarding:

• Add Service Accounts — Add service accounts to generate a kubeconfig
• Configure Admin Namespace — Configure admin namespace in Portworx Backup to store Kubernetes resources
• Grant access to a namespace — Providing namespace access to users without the Kubernetes administrator privileges
• Install Stork — This topic explains how to install Stork with or without Portworx Enterprise using various methods and provides instructions to deploy Stork in air-gapped environments.
• Configure Stork for Proxy Server — Learn how to configure Stork to work with network proxies, including both authenticated proxies with custom CA certificates and unauthenticated proxies. This guide covers creating Kubernetes secrets, updating storage cluster configurations, and setting environment variables to enable proxy support in Stork.
• Configure for S3 object store with TLS — Configure Portworx Backup, Stork, and Portworx Enterprise to add S3 object store certificate.