external-snapshotter VS cluster-template

Compare external-snapshotter vs cluster-template and see what are their differences.

external-snapshotter

Sidecar container that watches Kubernetes Snapshot CRD objects and triggers CreateSnapshot/DeleteSnapshot against a CSI endpoint. (by kubernetes-csi)
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external-snapshotter cluster-template
4 63
433 1,552
3.5% 6.5%
8.8 9.8
5 days ago 1 day ago
Go Python
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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external-snapshotter

Posts with mentions or reviews of external-snapshotter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.
  • Question about PVC snapshots and architecture
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 25 Aug 2023
    By the way, I got that error very often - kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter#300 - the fix is in progress. I'm afraid about the snapshot mechanism performance. It's also a question about the GCP snapshot mechanism, so I'm gathering opinions.
  • My completely automated Homelab featuring Kubernetes
    10 projects | /r/homelab | 3 Jan 2023
    VolSync is a much better option than Velero IMO, Velero was created before GitOps was a thing and it really tries to do too much when all I need is a reliable way to backup and restore PVCs. If your CSI supports volume snapshots, VolSync can use the snapshot-controller to create Volume Snapshots and then mount those as a PVC to a temporary pod to then backup that up to S3. This is really great for backing up PVCs because it's not backing them up from a running workload.
  • Backup solution for volumes
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 5 Nov 2022
    Is it required to store it to s3? If I were U i would use native approach https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volume-snapshots/ with https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter
  • Amazon EKS and IRIS. High Availability and Backup
    2 projects | dev.to | 28 Dec 2021
    #Install CSI Snapshotter and CRDs kubectl apply -n kube-system -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/master/client/config/crd/snapshot.storage.k8s.io_volumesnapshotcontents.yaml kubectl apply -n kube-system -f https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/raw/master/client/config/crd/snapshot.storage.k8s.io_volumesnapshotclasses.yaml kubectl apply -n kube-system -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/master/client/config/crd/snapshot.storage.k8s.io_volumesnapshots.yaml kubectl apply -n kube-system -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/master/deploy/kubernetes/snapshot-controller/setup-snapshot-controller.yaml kubectl apply -n kube-system -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/master/deploy/kubernetes/snapshot-controller/rbac-snapshot-controller.yaml

cluster-template

Posts with mentions or reviews of cluster-template. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-08.