Chapter 2. Creating Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform backup resources

Procedure

1. Log in to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
2. Navigate to Operators Installed Operators.
3. Select your Ansible Automation Platform Operator deployment.
4. Go to your All Instances tab, and click Create New.

5. Select Ansible Automation Platform Backup from the list.

   Note

   When creating the Ansible Automation Platform Backup resource it also creates backup resources for each of the nested components that are enabled.

6. In the Name field, enter a name for the backup.
7. In the Deployment name field, enter the name of the deployed Ansible Automation Platform instance being backed up. For example if your Ansible Automation Platform deployment must be backed up and the deployment name is aap, enter 'aap' in the Deployment name field.

8. Click Create. This results in an AnsibleAutomationPlatformBackup resource similar to the following:

   apiVersion: aap.ansible.com/v1alpha1
   kind: AnsibleAutomationPlatformBackup
   metadata:
     name: backup
     namespace: aap
   spec:
     no_log: true
     deployment_name: aap

   Verification

   To verify that your backup was successful you can:

9. Log in to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
10. Navigate to Operators Installed Operators.
11. Select your Ansible Automation Platform Operator deployment.
12. Click All Instances.

Procedure

1. Create a backup YAML file, for example custom-pvc-backup.yaml, that defines the backup_pvc and create_backup_pvc parameters for each component:

   apiVersion: aap.ansible.com/v1alpha1
   kind: AnsibleAutomationPlatformBackup
   metadata:
     name: aapbackup
   spec:
     backup_pvc: custom-aap-backup-pvc 

   1

   
     backup_storage_class: nfs-local-rwx
     backup_storage_requirements: 7Gi
     create_backup_pvc: true 

   2

   
     deployment_name: aap
     controller: 

   3

   
       backup_pvc: custom-controller-backup-pvc
       backup_resource_requirements:
         limits:
           cpu: "4"
           memory: 8Gi
         requests:
           cpu: "2"
           memory: 4Gi
       backup_storage_class: standard-csi
       backup_storage_requirements: 7Gi
       create_backup_pvc: true
     eda:
       backup_pvc: custom-eda-backup-pvc
       backup_storage_class: standard-csi
       backup_storage_requirements: 7Gi
       create_backup_pvc: true
     hub:
       backup_pvc: custom-hub-backup-pvc
       backup_storage_class: nfs-local-rwx
       backup_storage_requirements: 7Gi
       create_backup_pvc: true

   1

   Sets a custom PVC name for the platform gateway backup.

   2

   When set to true, the operator creates the PVC automatically if it does not already exist.

   3

   Component-level settings override the global values for backup_pvc, backup_storage_class, and backup_storage_requirements. Each component can define its own backup_pvc to create a uniquely named PVC.

2. Apply the configuration:

   $ oc apply -f custom-pvc-backup.yaml