Azure Cloud Storage, PV Backups, and Ransomware Protection

CloudCasa is a simple, scalable, and inexpensive Azure cloud backup service for protecting your Kubernetes and cloud native applications.  We worry about protecting your Kubernetes environment so that you don’t have to!

Since the introduction of CloudCasa in November of last year, we’ve been making improvements and adding new features at a steady rate. The CloudCasa team has been very busy this spring, and we’re now pleased to announce yet another major release of new service features!

Backup of Kubernetes PV data to CloudCasa
Previously CloudCasa would create and manage PV snapshots for you, but now we’ve added the capability to copy those snapshots off to our secure cloud storage as well. Just choose the “Snapshot and copy to CloudCasa” option when you create a Kubernetes backup job. You can also add this option to existing jobs by editing them. This feature will become part of our paid service tier when we introduce it, but for now, we are giving all of our free service customers the ability to try it out for a couple of months “on the casa.” We hope you like it!

Snapshots and backups of EBS PVs for EKS clusters
Previously CloudCasa would only support snapshots of persistent volumes of type CSI. However, some cloud providers are still a bit behind the curve when it comes to CSI support, so we’ve now added the ability to snapshot native EBS PVs on AWS EKS clusters. Simply configure your AWS account in CloudCasa as you would for RDS backups, and CloudCasa will automatically detect and handle your EBS PVs!

Selection of RDS databases by tag
We’ve added the ability to create RDS backup jobs that select databases using tags rather than selecting them explicitly. So, if you want to create a job that always snapshots all of your RDS databases with tags “application:website” and “type:production” you can do it! Tags are evaluated when the backup jobs run, not when you define them, so they will always be up to date as your environment changes.

Azure Storage support
The CloudCasa storage cloud spans many regions, but previously they were all AWS-based. We’ve now added several Azure regions as well. If you are an AWS or Azure customer, you can now choose your local region as a backup target so you won’t have to pay network transfer costs. Conversely, if you feel safer with your backups in a different cloud provider or region than the one your infrastructure is running in, you can choose a destination with that in mind. If you are backing up on-premise infrastructure, you may just want to choose a destination with the lowest latency from your network. We will be adding more regions and providers as time goes on.

Ability to select backup destination by cluster and job
Previously you could choose a backup destination for your whole account, but now you can choose destinations at the cluster and backup job level as well. So you can select a default destination for your account, override that with a different setting for a specific cluster, and override that with a different setting for a specific job. The combination should give you all the flexibility you need.

UI improvements We’ve made many changes to the UI to support the new features and make it easier to use. Some of the more noteworthy ones are:

• Update of the dashboard
• New persistent volume details page
• New detailed activity page
• Drill-through from job status summary in dashboard
• Improved Protection tab
• Job activity log improvements