One of the most confusing aspects of Kasten are blueprints. Blueprints are essential at preparing applications to be ready for backup. Backing up workloads that are not in the proper state for backup can lead to restores of corrupted applications. Databases in particular can be pesky in this regard.
Application Aware is well known in the windows world with VSS and by now most people using Veeam will know about running pre and post scripts as well.
The same logic applies to Kubernetes workloads. Those applications don’t just magically stop what they are doing when they here the backup call. Kannister Blueprints solve this problem and Kasten makes it even easier to leverage them.
Now this is a more complicated topic, at least for me it is, so I will probably do more than just one episode on Blueprints but for now this is a start.