Steps to complete a Kubernetes backup
We are excited to have Saiyam Pathak, Director of Technical Evangelism at Civo, sign up for CloudCasa and blog the simple steps required to complete a Kubernetes backup and restore of a Kubernetes cluster. For those that don’t know Saiyam, he has a passion for writing and talking about Kubernetes and cloud native technologies to make them more accessible for developers. Saiyam is a CNCF ambassador and a cloud native blogger with his own Cloud Native Simplified YouTube channel. He has worked on implementing Kubernetes solutions in many different organizations, so we were pleased to have him test drive CloudCasa and write about it.
In this KubeSimplify blog, Kubernetes backup using CloudCasa, Saiyam documents the simple set steps to complete a kubernetes backup of a Kubernetes cluster:
- Step 1 – Creating CloudCasa account
- Step 2 – Adding a cloud account
- Step 3 – Adding a cluster
- Step 4 – Define backups
- Step 5 – Running the backup
- Step 6 – Restore
- Advanced Restore
- Security Scanning
- Pricing

CloudCasa is a powerful and easy to use backup service that allows Kubernetes users to run CSI snapshots across unlimited clusters for free. Further, CloudCasa improves your cyber resilience by also delivering free vulnerability assessment scans on your Kubernetes clusters and cloud accounts.
Give CloudCasa a try and sign up for the Free Plan (no credit card or payment method needed) and follow Saiyam’s 6 steps for Kubernetes backup using CloudCasa.
While you are at it, please consider sponsoring the new KubeSimplify blog and follow @KubeSimplify.
You can learn more about Saiyam Pathak on the CNCF ambassador site.
Top 10 Reasons for Using CloudCasa
Immediately benefit from a powerful and easy to use Kubernetes backup service that does all the hard work for you to backup your multi-cluster applications and provide granular or cluster-level recovery including cross-account, cross-cluster, and cross-cloud recovery.
CloudCasa is so easy to use that even developers won’t mind managing backups. It comes with a generous free service plan (no credit card required) and it is a great alternative to using Velero or Kasten.
Here are the Top 10 reasons to use CloudCasa for Kubernetes backup, migration and disaster recovery, vs. these options:
- Do-it-yourself (DIY) products, whether open source like Velero or a product that you have to license, install and maintain like Kasten or Trilio
- Retrofitted enterprise or cloud backup products with container support, that still have all their baggage from the past (you know who they are)
- Cloud vendor or any VM backup that is not Kubernetes aware, or is single cloud only
- Container storage solutions with replication, or that come bundled with a single purpose backup application like PX-backup
- Solutions that don’t offer a free service plan or that charge by the cluster or by worker nodes