Druva’s SaaS-based data protection solution for application deployments from mid-market up to large organizations is now available to all customers. This release will quickly enable stateful backup and restore of Kubernetes workloads using Druva’s simple workflows and intuitive UI-based policy automation.
The container-based orchestration software ‘Kubernetes,’ which is also known as ‘K8s,’ is currently one of the fastest-growing open-source projects. Kubernetes was first developed by Google in 2013. Since then, they have publicly announced that they run everything in containers. Per a recent Gartner analyst report, by 2023, 70 percent of global organizations will be running three or more containerized applications in production, a significant increase from 30% in 2019.
Druva’s solution not only focuses on the Kubernetes administrator, but also on other stakeholders such as DevOps, cloud admins and application owners. Druva provides application group-centric protection present in the customer’s Amazon EKS and custom Amazon EC2 clusters. With Druva’s intuitive UI, cloud operation teams can easily protect their workloads by securing snapshots of these application groups, providing a quick and easy stateful recovery as needed. Druva’s unique approach of combining Kubernetes-level stateful backup with the AWS resources provides the most comprehensive AWS backup solution for Kubernetes. Snapshots can be restored to a new location for migration, cloning, or troubleshooting of the production workloads.
In this blog, we’ll explain the ‘Why and How’ of protecting your Kubernetes workloads running within the EKS and custom EC2 clusters using Druva.