Regional Electoral Courts Protects Kubernetes Data with CloudCasa
As a government institution in Brazil, the Para regional electoral courts began to experiment with Kubernetes. It was an ...
Azure Kubernetes Service Backup, Recovery and Migration Solution
AKS backup with granular recovery across clusters, accounts, tenants, and regions. Centrally manage Azure backups and Velero backups. Migrate applications and resources to new AKS environments like Azure Linux and Azure Container Storage.
Top Five Reasons to Use CloudCasa with Azure
From the Azure Marketplace or Azure Portal, AKS customers can easily find, transact, and deploy CloudCasa on any cluster to deliver enterprise-grade, cloud-native, data protection, migration and compliance.
Use Velero or AKS Backup? No problem, you can try the Free Service plan or try CloudCasa for Velero to manage your Velero installations. Or try CloudCasa Pro to get multi-cloud support and advanced recovery features for migration or disaster recovery (DR).
Need to upgrade your AKS nodes to Azure Linux, or your Azure Storage from Azure Disk to Azure Container Storage? Simply do a backup and during the restore workflow, and optionally select Azure Linux as your new environment, and select new storage resources like ACStor that you want to migrate to.
Key Solution Benefits
CloudCasa integrates with your Azure accounts to auto-discover your AKS clusters and to set global backup policies across a multi-cluster, multi-account environment. If you use Velero or AKS backup, try CloudCasa for Velero to get a dashboard for Velero management, monitoring and support. If you need to migrate or create a new AKS enviroment, simply do a backup and use the recovery workflow to dynamically create new clusters or to migrate or copy data.
Features and Integrations
Azure Kubenetes Marketplace
Azure-native integration
Azure Linux Migration
Azure Container Storage Migration
Restore of Azure files and Persistent Volumes
Data privacy with Azure Private links
Using Azure Blob Storage for backup storage
Granular Role-based access control (RBAC) & User Groups
Azure Kubenetes Marketplace
Transact CloudCasa from the Azure Marketplace or direclty from Azure portal. As a co-sell ready listing, get MACC credit for using CloudCasa!
 
Azure-native integration
CloudCasa connects to Azure through Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. Benefits to using ARM templates:
- We are not asking users to provide us any type of access or secret keys. It’s always a good practice to not keep/share such sensitive data if it’s not really necessary. That’s the rule we follow at CloudCasa for Azure and other providers we support.
- ARM integration makes to onboarding process a lot easier. In just a few clicks, a user can integrate his Azure subscription with CloudCasa, which will automatically discover all the AKS clusters, resource groups, and other resources.
- ARM integration gives more control to the user. When an ARM template is deployed, CloudCasa will be registered as a Service Provider in the Azure portal. From there, the user can see what permissions are used by CloudCasa.
Azure Linux Migration
Migrating from Ubuntu to Azure Linux is easy with auto cluster creation on restore. Simply do a full backup, and then during restore, select Azure Linux to use for the newly created clusters. Its that simple! For more details, see this Azure Linux migration blog.
Azure Container Storage Migration
Azure Container Storage is now supported as a storage resource. Have data you want to move from Azure Disk? Migraiton is super easy with CloudCasa – simply do a full backup, and then set up a restore and select the new Azure Container Storage resource from the UI. The migration is complete when the restore job is finished.Â
Restore of Azure files and Persistent Volumes
Simplify recovery processes, including using Azure Files CSI snapshots, to do cross-cluster recovery, AKS restores, and granular restore of resources by type with CloudCasa. Users can now safely restore data for applications using Azure Files.
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The official Azure File CSI Driver supports snapshot creation, but it does not support the restore. It is acknowledged by Microsoft that snapshots can be restored from the Azure portal or using CLI. We can imagine how time-consuming and difficult it would be to restore hundreds or thousands of files.
CloudCasa automates this process by:
- Automatically detecting PVs that use Azure Files and need to be restored.
- For every such PV, it finds the right Storage Account and Azure File Share snapshot.
- CloudCasa then uses the official Azure SDK to restore all the files and directories.
Data privacy with Azure Private links
CloudCasa utilizes the Azure Private links capability. Private links provide private connectivity between VPCs/vNets and your cloud services without exposing your traffic to the public internet. Private links help simplify your network architecture without compromising on security and scalability.
Azure highlights 5 key reasons for Azure Private Link service:
1. Privately access services on the Azure platform
2. On-premises and peered networks without ExpressRoute Peering
3. Protection against data leakage
4. Global reach and private connection to services across regions
5. Extension to your own services
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Using Azure Blob Storage for backup storage
Configure Azure blob storage under Configuration/My Storage: region, resource group name, subscription ID, client ID, client secret, and tenant ID.
CloudCasa supports three different storage types:
– CloudCasa Managed Storage – select the Cloud Provider and Region of your choice.
– Customer Managed Public Storage – for storage reachable through the public Internet. All storage and retention  management functions are managed by the CloudCasa service.
– Customer Managed Private Storage – for storage inaccessible to the CloudCasa service. All storage and           retention management functions are offloaded to a CloudCasa agent on a customer cluster.
– CloudCasa Managed Storage – select the Cloud Provider and Region of your choice.
– Customer Managed Public Storage – for storage reachable through the public Internet. All storage and retention  management functions are managed by the CloudCasa service.
– Customer Managed Private Storage – for storage inaccessible to the CloudCasa service. All storage and           retention management functions are offloaded to a CloudCasa agent on a customer cluster.
Granular Role-based access control (RBAC) & User Groups
Roles are now definable by an administrator, and individual users can be assigned multiple roles. User groups can also be defined, and roles can be assigned to groups as well. The permissions a user has are the union of the permissions granted by the roles assigned to them and the permissions granted by the roles assigned to the groups they belong to.
Resources
Red Hat OADP and CloudCasa – Datasheet
Velero and Red Hat OADP have become popular data protection options for cloud-native environments. OADP provides the ability to ...
CloudCasa for Velero Datasheet
CloudCasa for Velero makes it easier to manage, monitor and restore existing Velero backups. Velero is a popular open-source Kubernetes backup tool that is ...
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