Kubernetes Data Protection

Congratulations on completing the course! You’ve taken an important step in mastering Veeam® Kasten for Kubernetes, gaining the skills to efficiently protect, manage, and recover your Kubernetes workloads. Let’s take a moment to review what you’ve learned and explore how to apply this knowledge in real-world scenarios. Core Components of Veeam Kasten: You now understand how Veeam Kasten integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes environments to perform backup, recovery, and disaster recovery operations. By leveraging its native Kubernetes API integration, you can ensure robust and scalable data protection for your workloads. Configuring and Managing Policies: You've explored how to create and manage policies, location profiles, and advanced features like immutability to secure data and meet organizational requirements. These tools enable operational consistency and protect against data loss. Troubleshooting and Best Practices: You’ve learned to troubleshoot common issues by gathering logs a

Logs can be a great tool for diagnosing and resolving issues within your Veeam Kasten deployment. Gathering relevant debugging information lets you quickly identify the root causes of problems and implement effective solutions. Veeam Kasten provides a straightforward process for capturing logs and gathering diagnostic data to assist in troubleshooting. Troubleshooting with Logs When troubleshooting issues, administrators analyze logs from components like the main Kasten service, kanister pods, and storage controllers to identify failures, performance bottlenecks, or configuration problems. Kasten generates detailed logs across its control plane components, backup executors, and catalog services in the kasten-io namespace. Each component writes operational logs that track backup/restore jobs, configuration changes, and system events. Application Logs: Container stdout/stderr System Logs: kubelet, container runtime Event Logs: Kubernetes events Control Plane Logs: API server, scheduler,

Veeam Kasten Disaster Recovery (DR) aims to protect Kasten from underlying infrastructure failures. In particular, this feature provides the ability to recover the Kasten platform in case of various disasters, such as Kasten's accidental deletion, failure of the underlying storage that Kasten uses for its catalog, or even the accidental destruction of the Kubernetes cluster on which Kasten is deployed. Kasten Disaster Recovery Kasten Disaster Recovery (KDR) is an essential feature in Veeam Kasten because, without it, critical failures in the underlying infrastructure can result in devastating consequences for your data protection and management operations. Let's say your organization is dealing with accidental deletion of the Kasten platform, whether through human error or unexpected system failures; it could lead to the complete loss of your ability to manage backups, restore, and disaster recovery workflows. This disrupts operations and jeopardizes your ability to recover protected a

Policies in Veeam Kasten are at the heart of protecting and managing your Kubernetes workloads. They allow you to automate backups, snapshots, and exports to keep your data secure and recoverable. In this module, you’ll explore how to create and run policies and learn about Blueprints, advanced scheduling, policy presets, and manual actions, which are all essential for scalable and efficient data management. Before exploring the specifics of creating and running policies, it's important to understand the foundational tools that make policies in Kasten flexible and scalable. One key tool is Blueprints, which enables tailored protection workflows for applications with unique requirements. What are Blueprints? Blueprints in Veeam Kasten are designed to provide tailored protection for workloads, ensuring that the specific needs of different applications are met during backup and recovery processes. Workloads refer to the applications or services running in a Kubernetes cluster. This could

After installing Veeam Kasten and learning to access the Dashboard, we can explore its key features and capabilities. These tools are essential for managing and protecting your Kubernetes environments. You can use profiles as the backbone of Kasten’s data management workflows, defining and organizing the resources needed for your organization’s tasks. Creating Infrastructure Profiles An infrastructure profile provides the necessary credentials for Kasten to directly interact with storage infrastructure, primarily for snapshot operations in environments using legacy, in-tree storage provisioners. In most modern deployments, infrastructure profiles are not needed if the primary storage is managed via a CSI provisioner that supports creating and restoring VolumeSnapshots, as these operations are handled through the Kubernetes API server rather than directly with the storage system. However, in environments relying on in-tree provisioners, infrastructure profiles become essential. These ar

Setting up and maintaining Veeam Kasten ensures seamless data protection and management within Kubernetes environments. Now, we’ll explore the key aspects of installing Kasten, including best practices and configurations for a successful deployment. Whether you’re deploying Kasten for the first time or maintaining an existing setup, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge to manage installations and upgrades effectively. Getting Hands-on with Veeam Kasten This module will cover examples of the two most common installation methods, OpenShift Operator and Helm while providing some guidance to help you choose the best approach for your environment. Generally, the installation of Veeam Kasten can be categorized into two primary methods that are each suited to different needs: Veeam Kasten is available in different Operator editions: Veeam Kasten (Free): Free edition of Veeam Kasten for use in clusters up to 5 Nodes Veeam Kasten (Enterprise - PAYGO): Enterprise edition of Veeam Kasten, billed

Policies and Profiles are critical tools for data management within Veeam Kasten. Policies define the rules and behaviors for backup, recovery, and other data protection actions by specifying what actions to take, when, and under what conditions. Profiles define access to external resources, either by enabling direct integration with primary storage for orchestrating storage snapshots (Infrastructure Profiles) or by specifying secondary storage locations and credentials for exporting backup data (Location Profiles). Picture This! Your Kubernetes environment runs effortlessly, with a seamless data management system that works quietly in the background, ensuring every piece of critical information is protected and recoverable. Backups occur automatically without disrupting your operations, and data is always available precisely when and where you need it. Your team no longer must worry about compliance or recovery failures. Everything is set up to scale with your business needs, adapt to

The Veeam Kasten data management platform is tailor-made for Kubernetes, offering enterprise teams a scalable, secure, and intuitive system for backing up, restoring, and recovering Kubernetes applications. Kasten's application-centric approach, deeply integrated with databases, Kubernetes distributions, and cloud environments, streamlines operations without constraining infrastructure choices. Supporting native Kubernetes APIs, it features robust consistency, automatic application discovery, multi-cloud mobility, and a sophisticated web interface, all within a policy-driven, flexible architecture. Veeam Kasten delivers comprehensive features to simplify your Kubernetes data protection. It enables native backup and recovery for stateful Kubernetes applications using Kubernetes APIs, eliminating the need for intermediary storage layers. With support for on-premises environments and cloud platforms like GKE, AKS, and EKS, Kasten provides users with seamless protection across hybrid and m

This course introduces Veeam® Kasten for Kubernetes , designed to protect, manage, and recover Kubernetes workloads in diverse environments. Before starting, learners should have a foundational understanding of Kubernetes concepts like clusters, storage classes, and basic cluster management. This is not a beginner Kubernetes course. For those needing to build their Kubernetes knowledge, we recommend the following resources: Official Kubernetes Tutorials, Linux Foundation: Introduction to Kubernetes, and the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Preparation Course. These resources offer comprehensive learning paths to help you prepare for this course. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Understand the core components of Veeam Kasten and how they interact with Kubernetes environments. Configure and manage policies, location profiles, and advanced features such as immutability to secure and efficiently protect data. Troubleshoot common issues and apply best practices to maintain