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Clone an app

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You can create a new application by cloning an existing app.

Before you begin

Note the following about this workflow:

  • An app backup or snapshot is not used

  • The clone operation is performed within the same cluster

  • The new app is placed in a different namespace

Note To clone an app to a different cluster, you need to update the clusterId parameter in the JSON input as appropriate for your environment.

1. Select the app to clone

Perform the workflow List the apps and select application you want to clone. Several of the resource values are needed for the REST call used to clone the app.

2. Clone the app

Perform the following REST API call to clone the app.

HTTP method Path

POST

/accounts/{account_id}/k8s/v2/apps

Additional input parameters

In addition to the parameters common with all REST API calls, the following parameters are also used in the curl examples for this step.

Parameter Type Required Description

JSON

Body

Yes

Provides the parameters for the cloned app. See the example below.

JSON input example
{
  "type": "application/astra-app",
  "version": "2.0",
  "name": "mysql-clone",
  "clusterID": "30880586-d579-4d27-930f-a9633e59173b",
  "sourceClusterID": "30880586-d579-4d27-930f-a9633e59173b",
  "namespace": "mysql-ns",
  "sourceAppID": "e591ee59-ea90-4a9f-8e6c-d2b6e8647096"
}
Curl example: Clone an app
curl --location -i --request POST 'https://astra.netapp.io/accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID>/k8s/v2/apps' --header 'Content-Type: application/astra-app+json' --header '*/*' --header 'Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>' --data @JSONinput