While I discussed in my VMworld session this week some of the architectural decisions to be made while deploying PKS on vSphere my demo revolved around once it is up and running how to move existing data into PKS.
First, using the Pure FlashArray and vVols we are able to automate that process and quickly move data from another k8s cluster into PKS. It is not limited to that but this is the use case I started with.
Part 1 of the demo shows taking the persistent data from a deployment on and cloning it over the vVol that is created by using the vSphere Cloud Provider with PKS. vVols are particularly important because they keep the data in a native format and make copy/replication and snapshotting much easier.
Part 2 is the same process just scripted using Python and Ansible.
Demo Part 1 – Manual process of migrating data into PKS
Demo Part 2 – Using Python and Ansible to migrate data into PKS
The code I used is available from code.purestorage.com. Which also links to the GitHub repo https://github.com/PureStorage-OpenConnect/k8s4vvols
