Installing InfoScale on Kubernetes

Last published : Aug 26, 2026
All information about the worker nodes must be added to the cr.yaml file. All worker nodes become part of InfoScale cluster after cr.yaml is applied. After you download, unzip, and untar infoscale-yamls-v9.2.1.tar.gz, all files required for installation are available.
Note: You must download images required for installation from the InfoScale Download Center and push those to the Custom registry.
Configure a new user - infoscale-admin, associated with a Role-based Access Control ( RBAC) clusterrole defined ininfoscale-admin-role.yaml, to deploy InfoScale and its dependent components. infoscale-admin as a user when configured has clusterwide access to only those resources needed to deploy InfoScale and its dependent components such as Cert Manager in the desired namespaces.
To provide a secure and isolated environment for InfoScale deployment and associated resources, the namespace associated with these resources must be protected from access of all other users (except super user of the cluster), with appropriate RBAC implemented.
Run the following commands on the master node to create a new user -infoscale-admin and assign a clusterrole to infoscale-admin. You must be logged in as a super user.
  1. `kubectl config use-context kubernetes-admin@kubernetes```You have switched the context tokubernetes-admin@kubernetes.
  2. kubectl apply -f /infoscale-yamls-v9.2.1/kubernetes/infoscale-admin-role.yaml
    Here,infoscale-admin-role.yamlis downloaded as a part ofinfoscale-yamls-v9.2.1.tar.gz.
  3. kubectl create clusterrolebinding infoscale-admin-clusterrolebinding --clusterrole=infoscale-admin-role --user=infoscale-admin
    This step binds the cluster roleinfoscale-admin-role.yamlto a new user -infoscale-admin.
  4. openssl genrsa -out infoscale-admin.key 2048
    You have generated a key forinfoscale-adminby using 2048 bits.
    openssl req -new -key infoscale-admin.key -out infoscale-admin.csr -subj "/CN=infoscale-admin"
    You have created a certificate signing request for infoscale-admin.openssl x509 -req -in infoscale-admin.csr -CA /etc/kubernetes/pki/ca.crt -CAkey /etc/kubernetes/pki/ca.key -CAcreateserial -out infoscale-admin.crt -days <Number of days>.
    The certificate is signed by Kubernetes, a crt file is created, and is valid for the number of days you specified in the command.
  5. Create a license secret. See managing licenses for more information.
  6. Deploy the license CR.
    ---
      apiVersion: vlic.veritas.com/v1 kind: License
      metadata:
      name: license-dev spec: {}
      # (Optional)licenseServer IP address # licenseServer:
  7. mkdir /certs && mv infoscale-admin.crt infoscale-admin.key /certs````infoscale-admin.crtandinfoscale-admin.keymoved to/certsfolder for thelico_rhel.yamlto reference.
  8. cd /certs````kubectl config set-credentials infoscale-admin --client-certificate=/certs/infoscale-admin.crt --client-key=/certs/infoscale-admin.key````kubectl config set-context infoscale-admin.context --cluster=kubernetes --user=infoscale-admin````kubectl config use-context infoscale-admin.context
    Credentials are set forinfoscale-adminand its context created.
  9. kubectl config current-context infoscale-admin.context
    Ensures that the current context isinfoscale-admin.context.
You must perform all installation-related activities by logging in as infoscale-admin. A cluster super-user can also install InfoScale.
  1. Edit/infoscale-yamls-v9.2.1/kubernetes/iso_rhel.yamlas under -
    Replace image: <org-registry>/arctera/infoscale-storage-operator:9.2.1-rhelwithimage: <IP address of custom registry>/infoscale-storage-operator:9.2.1-rhel.
  2. Edit/infoscale-yamls-v9.2.1/kubernetes/lico_rhel.yamlas under -
    Replace image: <org-registry>/arctera/infoscale-license-operator:9.2.1-rhelwithimage: <IP address of custom registry>/infoscale-license-operator:9.2.1-rhel.
  3. Edit/infoscale-yamls-v9.2.1/kubernetes/dro_deployment.yamlas under -
    Replace image: <org-registry>/arctera/infoscale-dr-operator:9.2.1-rhelwithimage: <IP address of custom registry>/arctera/infoscale-dr-operator:9.2.1-rhel.
  4. Optionally, if you want to change the default kubelet path, edit/infoscale-yamls-v9.2.1/kubernetes/iso_rhel.yamlas under.
env:

  - name: KUBELET_PATH

       value: <enter the new path>
The default path is/var/lib/kubelet.
Note: Do not change the kubelet path after clusters are configured.
  1. Run the following command on the master node to install InfoScale.kubectl create -f /infoscale-yamls-v9.2.1/kubernetes/iso_rhel.yaml
  2. Run the following command on the master node to verify whether the installation is successful.kubectl get pods -n infoscale-vtas|grep infoscale-sds-operator
    An output similar to the following indicates a successful installation.READY 1/1indicates that Storage cluster resources can be created.
    NAME                                    READY   STATUS  RESTARTS AGE
    infoscale-sds-operator-6dc9bc8856-lh72f 1/1     Running 0        2d18h