Storage Requirements

Fortanix Armor uses Azure Blob Storage for Cassandra database backups. You must provision an Azure Storage Account with the following minimum supported configuration:

NOTE

Premium performance tier is also supported.

Configure Azure Blob Storage Credentials

Before configuring Cassandra database backups, ensure that the Azure Storage Account credentials are configured as a Kubernetes Secret in the Fortanix Armor namespace.

Example command:

kubectl apply -n <armor-namespace> -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: <backup-secret-name>
stringData:
  credentials: '{"key":"<key_value>","storage_account":"<storage-account-name>"}'
EOF

Where,

• <resource-group>: The resource group containing the Azure Storage Account.

• <storage-account-name>: The name of the Azure Storage Account used for Cassandra backups.

• <armor-namespace>: The Kubernetes namespace where Fortanix Armor is deployed.

• <backup-secret-name>: The name of the Kubernetes Secret containing the Azure Storage Account credentials.

• <key_value>: The value of the storage account key returned by the Azure CLI command.

  NOTE

  Specify the same Secret name in the database.backup.secret field of the ArmorPlatform resource.