Using GitOps for Stateful Workload Management with vSphere CSI driver on on-premises Kubernetes
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This article demonstrates how to use GitOps for managing stateful workloads on an EKS Anywhere cluster running on VMware vSphere using the vSphere CSI driver.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Setting up EKS Anywhere cluster and prerequisites
- Creating vCenter configuration secrets in AWS Secrets Manager
- Installing External Secrets Operator to access vCenter secrets
- Configuring GitOps with Flux to deploy vSphere CSI driver
- Verifying CSI driver installation and deploying a sample stateful workload
- Demonstrating backup and restore of persistent volumes using CSI snapshots
- Cleaning up resources
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