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Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestrator for managing containerized workloads and services, enabling both declarative configuration and automation. It is portable, extensible, and scalable and has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available.
Dell PowerProtect Data Manager protects existing and newly discovered workloads. It allows IT operations and backup administrators to manage Kubernetes clusters and their protection through a single management UI and define protection policies for Kubernetes workloads from Kubernetes APIs. The policy-driven protection is defined by the protection policy mechanism. PowerProtect Data Manager discovers the namespaces, labels, and pods in the environment, and helps protect them by providing cluster credentials logging, monitoring, governance, and recovery.