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Deploying OpenShift API for Data Protection on an ARO cluster

Prerequisites

Getting Started

  1. Create the following environment variables, substituting appropriate values for your environment:

Prepare Azure Account

  1. Create an Azure Storage Account as a backup target:
  1. Create an Azure Blob storage container:
  1. Create a role definition that will allow the operator minimal permissions to access the storage account where the backups are stored:
  1. Create a service principal for interacting with the Azure API, being sure to take note of the appID and password from the output. In this command, we will store these as AZR_CLIENT_ID and AZR_CLIENT_SECRET and use them in a subsequent command:

IMPORTANT be sure to store the client id and client secret for your service principal, as they will be needed later in this walkthrough. You will see the below output from the above command:

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