The details of restoring your cluster from backup are different depending on your version of RKE.

    If there is a disaster with your Kubernetes cluster, you can use rke etcd snapshot-restore to recover your etcd. This command reverts etcd to a specific snapshot and should be run on an etcd node of the the specific cluster that has suffered the disaster.

    The following actions will be performed when you run the command:

    • Syncs the snapshot or downloads the snapshot from S3, if necessary.
    • Checks snapshot checksum across etcd nodes to make sure they are identical.
    • Deletes your current cluster and cleans old data by running rke remove. This removes the entire Kubernetes cluster, not just the etcd cluster.
    • Rebuilds the etcd cluster from the chosen snapshot.
    • Creates a new cluster by running rke up.
    • Restarts cluster system pods.

    Warning: You should back up any important data in your cluster before running rke etcd snapshot-restore because the command deletes your current Kubernetes cluster and replaces it with a new one.

    The snapshot used to restore your etcd cluster can either be stored locally in /opt/rke/etcd-snapshots or from a S3 compatible backend.

    Example of Restoring from a Local Snapshot

    To restore etcd from a local snapshot, run:

    $ rke etcd snapshot-restore --config cluster.yml --name mysnapshot

    The snapshot is assumed to be located in /opt/rke/etcd-snapshots.

    Note: The pki.bundle.tar.gz file is not needed because RKE v0.2.0 changed how the Kubernetes cluster state is stored.

    Example of Restoring from a Snapshot in S3

    Prerequisite: Ensure your cluster.rkestate is present before starting the restore, because this contains your certificate data for the cluster.

    When restoring etcd from a snapshot located in S3, the command needs the S3 information in order to connect to the S3 backend and retrieve the snapshot.

    $ rke etcd snapshot-restore \
--config cluster.yml \
--name snapshot-name \
--s3 \
--access-key S3_ACCESS_KEY \
--secret-key S3_SECRET_KEY \
--bucket-name s3-bucket-name \
--folder s3-folder-name \ # Optional - Available as of v0.3.0
--s3-endpoint s3.amazonaws.com

    Note: if you were restoring a cluster that had Rancher installed, the Rancher UI should start up after a few minutes; you don’t need to re-run Helm.

    Options for rke etcd snapshot-restore

    Option Description S3 Specific
    --name value Specify snapshot name
    --config value Specify an alternate cluster YAML file (default: cluster.yml) [$RKE_CONFIG]
    --s3 Enabled backup to s3 *
    --s3-endpoint value Specify s3 endpoint url (default: “s3.amazonaws.com”) *
    --access-key value Specify s3 accessKey *
    --secret-key value Specify s3 secretKey *
    --bucket-name value Specify s3 bucket name *
    --folder value Specify folder inside bucket where backup will be stored. This is optional. This is optional. Available as of v0.3.0 *
    --region value Specify the s3 bucket location (optional) *
    --ssh-agent-auth Use SSH Agent Auth defined by SSH_AUTH_SOCK
    --ignore-docker-version Disable Docker version check

    If there is a disaster with your Kubernetes cluster, you can use rke etcd snapshot-restore to recover your etcd. This command reverts etcd to a specific snapshot and should be run on an etcd node of the the specific cluster that has suffered the disaster.

    The following actions will be performed when you run the command:

    • Removes the old etcd cluster
    • Rebuilds the etcd cluster using the local snapshot

    Before you run this command, you must:

    • Run rke remove to remove your Kubernetes cluster and clean the nodes
    • Download your etcd snapshot from S3, if applicable. Place the etcd snapshot and the pki.bundle.tar.gz file in /opt/rke/etcd-snapshots. Manually sync the snapshot across all etcd nodes.

    After the restore, you must rebuild your Kubernetes cluster with rke up.

    Warning: You should back up any important data in your cluster before running rke etcd snapshot-restore because the command deletes your current etcd cluster and replaces it with a new one.

    Example of Restoring from a Local Snapshot

    To restore etcd from a local snapshot, run:

    $ rke etcd snapshot-restore --config cluster.yml --name mysnapshot

    The snapshot is assumed to be located in /opt/rke/etcd-snapshots.

    The snapshot must be manually synched across all etcd nodes.

    The pki.bundle.tar.gz file is also expected to be in the same location.

    Options for rke etcd snapshot-restore

    Option Description
    --name value Specify snapshot name
    --config value Specify an alternate cluster YAML file (default: cluster.yml) [$RKE_CONFIG]
    --ssh-agent-auth Use SSH Agent Auth defined by SSH_AUTH_SOCK
    --ignore-docker-version Disable Docker version check