Automating Kubernetes Cross-Account and Cross-Cluster

Kubernetes Cross-Account and Cross-Cluster Restore

Automating Kubernetes Cross-Account and Cross-Cluster Restore

Why settle for less! The challenge of manually dealing with self-hosting a product like Velero or Kasten on dozens of clusters and multiple clouds, and then trying to migrate data across different accounts and even different clouds is very different from dealing with a single cluster and a single cloud environment.

CloudCasa provides a guided workflow for Kubernetes cross-account and cross-cluster Kubernetes restores in Amazon EKS from an intuitive GUI. When creating an EKS cluster on restore, CloudCasa allows you to customize the IAM role, subnet group, security group etc. to use in a new account or region. This minimizes the need for user intervention and allows a “bare metal recovery” like functionality.

When restoring to an existing Kubernetes cluster other than the original cluster, users can browse the available storage classes in the destination cluster. This makes remapping storage classes quicker and easier, and CloudCasa will automatically handle changing volume IDs for PVs. In general, Kubernetes cross-cluster restores should work with no user intervention as long as matching storage classes exist on the target cluster. If they don’t, you should use the option to remap storage classes to those that exist on the target.

We generally recommend restoring individual namespaces rather than the full cluster when restoring to an existing cluster. Also, only copy-backups should be restored to a different target cluster, not snapshot-backups. For automatic cross-cluster restores, only dynamically provisioned PVs are supported.

Learn how to do a cross-account and cross-cluster restore of Kubernetes using CloudCasa on Amazon EKS in this sequence of videos by Martin Phan, Field CTO Americas for Catalogic. Part 1 covers Setup, followed by part 2 on Backup, and part 3 on Restore. Users can browse clusters and map the available storage classes in the source and destination cluster across different AWS accounts and different cloud providers such as AKS and DigitalOcean.

Part 1 - Setup

Part 2 - Backup

Part 3 - Restore

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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