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You can use the PowerProtect Data Manager to protect the Kubernetes environment by adding an RKE downstream cluster that is managed by the SUSE Rancher as an asset source and discovering namespaces as assets for data protection operations.
A Kubernetes cluster can be added as an asset source in PowerProtect Data Manager to protect the namespaces and PVCs within the cluster.