Once developed by VMware and now open source in the hands of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Velero provides backup, disaster recovery and data migration in the Kubernetes environment. We show you how to set up the tool and perform the three tasks mentioned above in your cluster. This ensures that your apps always have a tailwind.
Backups within a Kubernetes cluster usually include various elements such as the master nodes, the worker nodes and the etcd database. However, administrators are usually interested in Kubernetes objects for data backups, such as namespaces, persistent disks or deployments.
This is exactly where Velero [1] comes in. The software runs both in cloud environments and in your own data centre and comes with these key functionalities:
– Creating backups and restoring them in the event of data loss.
