• Taints and tolerations allows you to mark (taint) a node so that no pods can schedule onto it unless a pod explicitly tolerates the taint. Marking nodes instead of pods (as in node affinity/anti-affinity) is particularly useful for situations where most pods in the cluster must avoid scheduling onto the node.

  To use this functionality, user must create the node pool/node group with the following detail:

  • Add a label with certain key value. For example key = nbpool, value = nbnodes

  • Add a taint with the same key and value which is used for label in above step with effect as NoSchedule.

    For example, key = nbpool, value = nbnodes, effect = NoSchedule

• Install cert-manager and trust-manager as follows:

  • Install cert-manager by using the following command:

    $ kubectl apply -f https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/releases/download/v1.13.3/cert-manager.yaml

    For details, see cert-manager Documentation.

  • Install trust-manager by using the following command:

    # helm repo add jetstack https://charts.jetstack.io --force-update

    $ kubectl create namespace trust-manager

    # helm upgrade -i -n trust-manager trust-manager jetstack/trust-manager --set app.trust.namespace=netbackup --version v0.7.0 --wait

• A workstation or VM running Linux with the following:

  • Configure kubectl to access the cluster.

  • Install Azure/AWS CLI to access Azure/AWS resources.

  • Configure docker to be able to push images to the container registry.

  • Free space of approximately 15.5 GB on the location where you copy and extract the product installation TAR package file. If using docker locally, there should be approximately 15 GB available on the /var/lib/docker location so that the images can be loaded to the docker cache, before being pushed to the container registry.

AKS-specific

• A Kubernetes cluster in Azure Kubernetes Service in AKS with multiple nodes. Using separate node pool is recommended for the NetBackup servers, MSDP Scaleout deployments and for different media server objects. It is required to have separate node pool for Snapshot Manager data plane.

• Taints are set on the node pool while creating the node pool in the cluster. Tolerations are set on the pods.

• Enable AKS Uptime SLA. AKS Uptime SLA is recommended for a better resiliency. For information about AKS Uptime SLA and to enable it, see 'Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Uptime SLA' section in Azure Kubernetes Service Documentation.

• Access to a container registry that the Kubernetes cluster can access, like an Azure Kubernetes Service Container Registry.

EKS-specific

• A Kubernetes cluster in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service in EKS with multiple nodes. Using separate node group is recommended for the NetBackup servers, MSDP Scaleout deployments and for different media server objects. It is required to have separate node pool for Snapshot Manager data plane.

• Taints are set on the node group while creating the node group in the cluster. Tolerations are set on the pods.

• Access to a container registry that the Kubernetes cluster can access, like an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Container Registry.

• AWS network load balancer controller add-on must be installed for using network load balancer capabilities.

• AWS EFS-CSI driver must be installed for statically provisioning the PV or PVC in EFS for primary server.