Setup and Configure Velero on AKS

What Is Velero?

Velero is an open source tool to safely back up and restore, perform disaster recovery, and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes

Velero consists of:

Using RBAC with Service Accounts in Kubernetes

Kubernetes doesn’t maintain a database or profiles of users and passwords. Instead, it expects it to be managed outside of the cluster.  The role of RBAC is to authorize the requests. We will be creating a pod read-only user (Service account) which can get, list, watch any pod in selected namespaces.

What is RBAC?

Role-based access control (RBAC) is a method of regulating access to a computer or network resources based on the roles of individual users within your organization.