6 steps to complete a Kubernetes backup using CloudCasa

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

As a Kubernetes backup-as-a-service solution, CloudCasa removes the complexity of managing traditional backup infrastructure and it provides the same enterprise-level of data protection that your IT Operations provide today.

With CloudCasa, IT doesn’t need to be Kubernetes experts and DevOps doesn’t need to be storage and database protection experts in order to backup and recover your Kubernetes clusters and even your cloud databases. And cyber-resilience and ransomware protection is built it.

CloudCasa provides a generous free Kubernetes backup service plan that includes unlimited worker nodes, clusters, and unlimited CSI and RDS snapshots with 30 days retention. Easily manage Amazon RDS snapshots, schedule and manage multi-region copies of RDS snapshots, and recover RDS snapshots from CloudCasa or AWS automatic backups

Cloud-native backup and disaster recovery as-a-service for Kubernetes applications and cloud database services

CloudCasa is a powerful, scalable, cyber-resilient cloud backup service for developers, DevOps and IT Ops to backup, recover, and migrate Kubernetes clusters and data including cloud databases. CloudCasa removes the complexity of managing traditional backup infrastructure, while providing application-consistent data protection, migration, and disaster recovery.

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