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  2. Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Manual Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters
  3. Appendix B. MSDP Scaleout
  4. Installing the docker images and binaries for MSDP Scaleout (without environment operators or Helm charts)
Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Manual Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters

Installing the docker images and binaries for MSDP Scaleout (without environment operators or Helm charts)

The MSDP package VRTSpddek.tar.gz for Kubernetes includes the following:

  • A docker image for MSDP operator

  • 3 docker images for MSDP Scaleout: uss-controller, uss-mds, and uss-engine

  • A kubectl plugin: kubectl-msdp

To install the docker images and binaries for AKS

  1. Download VRTSpddek.tar.gz from the Cohesity site.
  2. Load the docker images to your docker storage.

    tar -zxvf VRTSpddek.tar.gz

    ls VRTSpddek-*/images/*.tar.gz|xargs -i docker load -i {}

  3. Copy MSDP kubectl plugin to a directory from where you access AKS or EKS host. This directory can be configured in the PATH environment variable so that kubectl can load kubectl-msdp as a plugin automatically.

    For example,

    cp ./VRTSpddek-*/bin/kubectl-msdp /usr/local/bin/

  4. Push the docker images to the ACR. Keep the image name and version same as original.
    docker login <your-acr-url>
    for image in msdp-operator uss-mds uss-controller uss-engine; do \
        docker image tag $image:<version> <your-acr-url>/$image:<version>; \
        docker push <your-acr-url>/$image:<version>; \
    done

To install the docker images and binaries for EKS

  1. Download VRTSpddek.tar.gz from the Cohesity site.
  2. Load the docker images to your docker storage.

    tar -zxvf VRTSpddek.tar.gz

    ls VRTSpddek-*/images/*.tar.gz|xargs -i docker load -i {}

  3. Copy MSDP kubectl plugin to a directory from where you access AKS or EKS host. This directory can be configured in the PATH environment variable so that kubectl can load kubectl-msdp as a plugin automatically.

    For example,

    cp ./VRTSpddek-*/bin/kubectl-msdp /usr/local/bin/

  4. Push the docker images to the ECR.
    • Log in.

      aws ecr get-login-password \
      --region <region> \
      | docker login \
      --username AWS \
      --password-stdin \
      <aws_account_id>.dkr.ecr.<region>.amazonaws.com
    • Create a repository.

      Refer to the "Creating a private repository" section of the AWS documentation.

    • Push the docker images to ECR. Keep the image name and version same as original.

      for image in msdp-operator uss-mds uss-controller
      uss-engine; do \
      docker image tag $image:<version> <your-ecr-url>/$image:<version>; \
      docker push <your-ecr-url>/$image:<version>; \
      done
      

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