how to write daily backup job for elasticsearch in production environment, we are using docker image and kubernetes for containerized platform

Question

我是elasticsearch的新手，我们想在我们的生产环境中编写日常备份工作，在我们的生产环境中，我们使用openshift和kubernetes，我们的elasticsearch在kubernetes环境中部署为docker容器，我对elasticsearch快照策略有一些想法，但是如何在容器化环境中实现日常的 Elasticsearch 备份工作。

Answer 1

As per documentation and @Tim Wong post, you can use for this task " Scheduled Backup using curator ".

More information how to combine snapshot with cronjob here and here .

Please share with your results and findings.

Answer 2

you need to write a cronjob and in that cronjob, you should use the host as service name it will take backup. (as per kubernets view)