We are excited to announce CloudCasa can now be deployed via a recipe to protect Kubernetes clusters managed via Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform for Enterprises and MSPs.
Kubernetes Clusters managed by Rafay with CloudCasa
With Rafay and CloudCasa, enterprises can use and protect Kubernetes distributions and immediately gain centralized automation, security, visibility, data protection and governance capabilities for Kubernetes and application lifecycle management – across public clouds such as AWS, Azure and GCP.
Modern Kubernetes Operations and Data Protection with Rafay and CloudCasa
At CloudCasa, we evaluated Rafay and were quickly impressed by its intuitive interface and infrastructure-agnostic design. It delivers a consistent, modern experience for managing Kubernetes operations—regardless of the underlying distribution or where it’s deployed.
Both Rafay and CloudCasa share a common belief:
Modern infrastructure requires modern operations.
As cloud-native technologies evolve rapidly, so should the tools used to manage them. Rafay offers an enterprise-grade platform that helps platform engineering and SRE teams streamline Kubernetes operations with minimal overhead. It’s designed to support the pace of innovation, providing the flexibility and scalability needed for today’s fast-moving cloud environments.
Managing Kubernetes across multiple clusters and teams can be challenging, especially with the growing complexity of the CNCF ecosystem. To simplify this, Rafay provides curated recipes—pre-configured templates that help users deploy, operate, and manage CNCF tools with ease. These recipes allow teams to quickly enable best practices and integrations, reducing the learning curve and setup time.
One of the curated recipes now includes CloudCasa, bringing powerful Kubernetes and cloud database backup capabilities directly into the Rafay platform. With this integration, users can easily deploy CloudCasa as a fully managed backup service to protect their applications across multi-cloud and multi-cluster environments.
Once deployed, CloudCasa provides automated, policy-driven backups and fast recovery, ensuring your critical workloads are protected with minimal effort. Whether it’s recovering from accidental deletion, data corruption, or ransomware, CloudCasa makes it simple to restore your Kubernetes environment to a known good state.
Why We Built CloudCasa
Kubernetes became popular for its ability to orchestrate container workloads on demand, allowing businesses to scale compute resources in the cloud as needed. Originally focused on stateless applications, Kubernetes is now supporting more stateful workloads—workloads where data persistence matters.
Cloud providers like AWS and Azure have responded by offering persistent storage and cloud databases tailored for Kubernetes. But as data becomes integral to application performance, backup and disaster recovery become mission-critical.
Just moving to the cloud isn’t enough. You still need to ask:
Can I recover my Kubernetes data after a ransomware attack?
Do I have snapshots or backup copies to roll back to?
Is my persistent data protected across all environments?
CloudCasa was built to answer these questions. It’s a simple, SaaS-based platform that delivers backup and recovery for Kubernetes clusters and cloud databases—without the complexity.
More than just a safety net, CloudCasa also supports DevOps workflows, compliance, and test/dev use cases, making it a valuable part of the Kubernetes lifecycle. Whether you’re looking to meet regulatory requirements or recover from a disaster, CloudCasa ensures your Kubernetes data is always safe and accessible.
CloudCasa vs. the Competition: Built for the Cloud, Designed for Kubernetes
As Kubernetes adoption continues to surge, the demand for cloud-native data protection is growing just as fast. According to Gartner, over 75% of global organizations were expected to run containerized applications in production by 2022—and that momentum hasn’t slowed.
With this growth, the Kubernetes backup market has become crowded. Many vendors have rushed to introduce solutions, but most are simply retrofit versions of legacy VM backup tools or storage-based products repackaged for Kubernetes. These tools were not built with the cloud or Kubernetes simplicity in mind—and it shows.
A Cloud-Native Backup Solution, Done Right
At CloudCasa, we took a different approach. We designed a cloud-native backup-as-a-service platform from the ground up—purpose-built for Kubernetes. Our goal was simple: provide a solution that protects both Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent data, without the complexity of managing infrastructure.
Open Source Isn’t Always Easy
Tools like Velero are great open source options, but they come with a heavy DIY burden. You’ll need to handle:
Manual installation
Storage setup
Backup scheduling
Software upgrades
Monitoring—all through the command line
While flexible, this approach demands significant time and expertise to manage correctly. That’s time your team could be spending building and shipping applications.
CloudCasa Makes Kubernetes Backup Effortless
CloudCasa is everything Velero isn’t—intuitive, automated, and truly cloud-native. There’s no infrastructure to manage. No scripts to maintain. No complex setup.
You get:
Easy onboarding and setup in minutes
Automated, policy-driven backups
Full protection for multi-cloud, multi-cluster environments
A clean, modern UI with powerful monitoring and restore capabilities
Summary
With CloudCasa, we have your back based on our many years of experience in enterprise data protection and disaster recovery.
From the Rafay Management console, you can easily build a CloudCasa recipe and deploy across your Kubernetes Clusters to provide the same level of application-consistent data protection and disaster recovery for your cloud native applications that your IT department provides for their virtual and physical server-based applications today.
Why not give us a try today via CloudCasa Free Plan sign-up or if you are interested in deploying CloudCasa via a Rafay recipe. If you have any queries, want to see a demonstration, or just have a chat with us feel free to get in contact via casa@cloudcasa.io