CloudCasa by Catalogic Achieves Nutanix Ready Certification for Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)

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Introduction 

CloudCasa by Catalogic has achieved Nutanix Ready certification for the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). This milestone validates CloudCasa as an enterprise-grade backup, disaster recovery, and migration solution for NKP, giving Nutanix customers a simple, resilient way to protect and move workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 

As organizations modernize applications on NKP, they need more than just storage snapshots, or open-source tools. CloudCasa ensures that Kubernetes applications, data, and cluster configurations are fully protected and recoverable, with the flexibility to migrate between platforms as business needs change. 

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The Backup and DR Challenge with Naked Kubernetes 

Kubernetes was never designed with built-in enterprise backup and DR in mind. Running “naked” Kubernetes leaves gaps that quickly become critical at scale. 

Stateful workloads such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB require consistent snapshots that Kubernetes alone does not orchestrate. Disaster recovery is complex and often requires a mix of scripts, storage-specific tools, or manual intervention. Portability is limited, making it difficult to migrate workloads between Kubernetes distributions or across clouds. Compliance and security requirements such as immutability, audit logging, and role isolation are also not addressed by native Kubernetes. 

Without an integrated solution, these challenges increase operational risk, extend recovery times, and raise costs. 

Catalogic Value Beyond Open Source Tools 

Open source frameworks like Velero provide basic backup capabilities, but fall short in enterprise production environments. CloudCasa extends far beyond that with: 

  • Immutable backups and ransomware protection with air-gapped recovery options 
  • Multi-tenancy and RBAC to isolate access by department, business unit, or customer while ensuring compliance and secure delegation of responsibilities 
  • Centralized management of all clusters from a single pane of glass 
  • Granular recovery options that include restoring entire clusters, specific namespaces, workloads, or even performing file-level recovery from persistent volumes 
  • Migration workflows to move applications across Kubernetes distributions and cloud providers 
  • Flexible deployment choices as SaaS or self-hosted for air-gapped and compliance-driven environments 

For NKP customers, this means an enterprise-ready platform that scales with business needs while meeting compliance and security standards. 

Getting Started with CloudCasa on NKP 

CloudCasa can be deployed on Nutanix Kubernetes Platform in minutes. 

  • Install the lightweight CloudCasa agent in your NKP cluster. 
  • Connect it to the CloudCasa SaaS service or to your self-hosted instance. 
  • Define backup policies, retention, and storage targets such as Nutanix Objects or public cloud storage. 
  • Begin protecting and migrating workloads with policy-driven automation. 

Full setup instructions are available in the CloudCasa documentation. 

Backup, Migration, and DR Use Cases with NKP 

CloudCasa unlocks several high-value scenarios for Nutanix environments. 

  • Migration from Tanzu to NKP: Many enterprises are moving away from Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. With CloudCasa, workloads can be backed up on Tanzu and seamlessly restored into NKP, maintaining persistent volumes, secrets, and configurations. 
  • Migration from NKE to NKP: For Nutanix customers standardizing on NKP, CloudCasa can migrate applications and data from Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE) clusters into NKP to simplify modernization. 
  • Protecting NKP Applications: CloudCasa safeguards stateful applications on NKP with immutable, policy-based backups and fast recovery that meet service level requirements. 
  • Cross-Distribution Migrations into NKP: Move workloads from EKS to NKP or from AKS to NKP using CloudCasa’s migration workflows, supporting both cluster-level and namespace-level migrations. 
  • Disaster Recovery with NKP: In case of an outage, CloudCasa can restore an entire cluster, including application metadata and persistent volumes, onto a secondary NKP site for rapid business continuity. 

Conclusion 

Achieving Nutanix Ready certification for NKP reinforces CloudCasa’s commitment to delivering robust, enterprise-class data protection for Nutanix customers. With features like multi-tenancy, RBAC, immutable backups, and cross-platform migration, CloudCasa helps organizations protect their investments, modernize confidently, and prepare for the unexpected. 

Whether you are migrating from Tanzu or NKE, protecting applications on NKP, or building a disaster recovery plan, CloudCasa ensures your Kubernetes data is secure, portable, and always recoverable. 

 Learn more at cloudcasa.io or reach out to us at casa@cloudcasa.io.