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K8s Backup and Disaster Recovery Is More Important Than Ever

While data protection has always been important, it’s becoming a critical issue for organizations building and deploying applications in Kubernetes environments. The threat of data loss and ransomware in these distributed, dynamic cloud native environments is pushing organizations to pursue more comprehensive strategies not only to back up the Kubernetes applications but also to employ disaster recovery (DR) across regions.

According to Veeam’s https://www.veeam.com/wp-data-protection-trends-report.html, 89% of IT leaders see a “protection gap” between tolerable data loss and how to protect their data. Virtually all these cloud native leaders are on board with containers; 91% are either using containers in production or are planning to.

Legacy solutions fail to capture the application as a whole, including the application data and Kubernetes resources (configuration. secrets, etc)..