EKS Anywhere, repatriations, workload migrations, cloud-DR and more…

This article is part of the EKS Anywhere series EKS Anywhere., extending the Hybrid cloud momentum

The article largely focuses on repatriating applications and workloads (stateless and stateful) from EKS to EKS Anywhere. However, the same techniques can be used for the reverse use-cases such as Cloud-DR (EKS Anywhere to EKS) 

What's in play?

Demo Introduction and context

The article is an aggregate of videos capturing a live demo for repatriating, migrating the polyglot application namespaced as sock-shop (8 microservices, 6 persistent data services, TLS secret, ingress resource)

For those who are interested in the final act, i.e., the live migration.

The below video captures the live migration wherein we migrate the SockShop application from EKS to EKS Anywhere

For those who are interested in an end-to-end demo setup and execution

The below video playlist lists down exact steps taken to build and execute the demo at each stage.

Where is the code? The entire procedure is also highlighted in the GitHub repository associated with this saga series eks-anywhere/eks-eksa-repatriation-steps.md at main · thecloudgarage/eks-anywhere (github.com)

Step-1 Introduction and demo context

 

Step-2 Deploy EKS cluster in AWS with add-ons (EBS CSI driver, external snapshotter, storage and volumesnapshot classes)

 

Step-3 Deploy EKS Anywhere cluster with add-ons (Dell PowerStore CSI driver, external snapshotter, storage and volumesnapshot classes)

 

Step-4 Deploy SockShop application on EKS cluster in AWS.

 

Step-5 Deploy Dell Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE) in AWS and integrate it with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager

 

Step-6 Integrate EKS and EKS Anywhere clusters with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager

 

Step-7 The FINALE… Execute SockShop repatriation from EKS AWS to EKS Anywhere cluster.

Hope the viewers were able to relate to the practical outcomes that this article renders around ease of migrating complex workloads across Kubernetes clusters,

cheers,

Ambar Hassani

#iwork4dell