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The Data Manager Appliance supports agentless, application-consistent backups of database applications that reside in Kubernetes pods. The Data Manager Appliance provides a standardized way to quiesce a supported database, back up the data from that database, and then return the database to operation. Application templates serve as a bridge between a specific database environment and the Kubernetes backup architecture for the Data Manager Appliance. Depending on the differences between database environments, each deployment may require a different configuration file. Application templates are typically deployed from customizable YAML files that are included with the CLI package. The CLI package exists on the Data Manager Appliance at /usr/local/brs/lib/cndm/misc/ppdmctl.tar.gz, is part of the Data Manager Appliance deployment, and can be downloaded from the Data Manager Appliance UI by navigating to System Settings icon > Downloads and selecting Kubernetes.