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Kubernetes clusters and containers play an important role in the speed and efficiency of deploying and developing applications, and also in reducing downtime when a change to application scaling is required. The Data Manager Appliance helps to protect the Kubernetes environment by adding a Kubernetes cluster as an asset source and discovering namespaces as assets for data protection operations.