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Published inDec 2021
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781803230030
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Marc Boorshtein
Marc Boorshtein
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Marc Boorshtein

Marc Boorshtein has been a software engineer and consultant for 20 years and is currently the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Tremolo Security, Inc. Marc has spent most of his career building identity management solutions for large enterprises, U.S. Government civilian agencies, and local government public safety systems.
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Scott Surovich
Scott Surovich
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Scott Surovich

Scott Surovich has been involved in the industry for over 25 years and is currently the Global Container Engineering Lead at a tier 1 bank as the Global on-premises Kubernetes product owner architecting and, delivering cluster standards, including the surrounding ecosystem. His previous roles include working on other global engineering teams, including Windows, Linux, and virtualization.
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Understanding Kubernetes backups

Backing up a Kubernetes cluster requires backing up not only the workloads running on the cluster but also the cluster itself. Remember that the cluster state is maintained in an etcd database, making it a very important component that you need to back up to recover from any disasters.

Creating a backup of the cluster and the running workloads allows you to do the following:

  • Migrate clusters
  • Create a development cluster from a production cluster
  • Recover a cluster from a disaster
  • Recover data from persistent volumes
  • Namespace and deployment recovery

In this chapter, we will provide the details and tools to back up your etcd database and every namespace and object in the cluster.

Recovering a cluster from a complete disaster in an enterprise usually involves backing up custom SSL certificates for various components, such as Ingress controllers, load-balancers, and the API server.

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Marc Boorshtein

Marc Boorshtein has been a software engineer and consultant for 20 years and is currently the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Tremolo Security, Inc. Marc has spent most of his career building identity management solutions for large enterprises, U.S. Government civilian agencies, and local government public safety systems.
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Scott Surovich

Scott Surovich has been involved in the industry for over 25 years and is currently the Global Container Engineering Lead at a tier 1 bank as the Global on-premises Kubernetes product owner architecting and, delivering cluster standards, including the surrounding ecosystem. His previous roles include working on other global engineering teams, including Windows, Linux, and virtualization.
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