Prerequisites

The following prerequisites apply to the restore procedure for Red Hat Edge Manager on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

  • Cluster access to the Kubernetes cluster that hosts the Red Hat Edge Manager deployment.
  • The OpenShift project (Kubernetes namespace) where you installed the Red Hat Edge Manager Helm chart. The examples use the placeholder rhem-chart-namespace. Substitute your real namespace name everywhere it appears.
  • Kubernetes tools: kubectl installed and configured with administrative permissions.
  • Flight Control CLI: flightctl and flightctl-restore available locally or in your restore environment.
  • Backup artifacts: access to the database backup files required for recovery.
  • Optional verification tools: redis-cli and pg_isready for validating service readiness and data integrity.
Important

Database restore steps before you run flightctl-restore must match your backup strategy (for example, pg_restore, psql, or volume-level recovery). Follow your organization’s runbooks together with the outline below.