Why do we need a daemonset for restic plugin. Why not a deployment

Vishal · September 13, 2021, 8:39am

Team ,

Why we have implemented a daemon set for restic plugin . Why we cant go for a deployment Kubernetes object for this ?

Is it required to run on all nodes of the cluster ?

gurkan · September 13, 2021, 10:17am

Hi,

I guess you’re using Velero. That’s a question to ask to that project imho, since restic itself is just a single binary which does not implement anything like that as far as I know.

Vishal · September 13, 2021, 10:20am

Yeah , I am using restic with velero to take backups of PVCs but by default it has a daemonset object of K8s cluster.

So if its not required to run on all Kubernetes nodes ,then there is no need to have daemonset for this .We can simply have a deployment K8s object for this

gurkan · September 13, 2021, 11:43am

I don’t think anyone in this forum (except if a Velero developer is lurking around) can have any effect on this. You might want to ask this to Velero community.

Vishal · September 13, 2021, 1:26pm

Sure ! thanks ! Created this - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/4132