Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, and it facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem, which continues to increase the importance of protecting Kubernetes clusters and resources.
Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager solves the requirement to protect Kubernetes clusters, pods, persistent volume claims, namespaces, and other resources. This document discusses Kubernetes resources and the etcd database that resides in the primary node or nodes and describes how to protect and restore the etcd database.