Data Protection for Kubernetes – Recommendations from the Data Protection Working Group
Speakers: Dave Smith-Uchida, Technical Leader at Kasten by Veeam ( / dave-smith-uchida , & Xing Yang, Cloud Native Storage Tech Lead, VMware ( / yangxing )
Abstract: The Data Protection Working Group is dedicated to promoting data protection support in Kubernetes, identifying missing functionality and working together to design features to enable data protection support. Recently the working group released a white paper titled: Data Protection Workflows, which describes how to identify resources for data protection, what is the volume backup and restore workflow, and what is the application snapshot, backup, and restore workflow.
Xing Yang and Dave Smith-Uchida will present and discuss this white paper, and their presentation will answer the following questions:
Why do we need data protection in Kubernetes?
What is currently available in Kubernetes?
What functionalities are missing in Kubernetes to support data protection?