Solution Brief

Data Protection & Mobility for Kubernetes Applications

Simplified Backup, disaster recovery, ransomware defense and migration for OpenShift

Red Hat Software Partner Enterprise Grade Data Protection for Enterprise Container Orchestration
Hybrid cloud platforms like Red Hat® OpenShift® are enhancing how organizations develop, deploy, manage,
and protect containerized application data. As enterprises continue to adopt Kubernetes for business-critical
operations, the need for reliable, cloud native protection for stateful applications and persistent data has
become a requirement.

Yet according to a data protection report by ESG, 74% of organizations believe both legacy and containerized
application data can be protected the same way. The truth is, Kubernetes is fundamentally different from
earlier compute infrastructures. Systems used for data management and backup of traditional workloads lack
the required elasticity, and don't employ modern, declarative API-based approaches to protect and recover
Kasten by Veeam delivers
the components & microservices of a Kubernetes application.
reliable backup & disaster
recovery, helps protect The Kasten K10 data management platform was purpose-built for Kubernetes and is a certified OpenShift
data from ransomware Operator. With operational simplicity as a core tenet, Kasten K10 makes backup, disaster recovery, and
attacks and simplifies application mobility simple on OpenShift. With an application-centric approach and deep integrations
migration of Kubernetes with relational and NoSQL databases, storage systems, and Kubernetes distributions, Kasten K10 delivers
applications across hybrid flexibility and freedom of choice across cloud & on prem infrastructures, virtual machines and container
application stacks.
and cloud environments.

Seamlessly deploy,
upgrade, and protect Simplified & Protected Kubernetes
cloud-native applications.
The partnership between Red Hat & Kasten by Veeam allows you to seamlessly integrate data protection
as part of application development and deployment on OpenShift. Build in the cloud, deploy on-prem,
Simplify the process of migrate applications across compute environments, and recover anywhere. Together with OpenShift,
moving existing, stateful Kasten K10 simplifies how your organization can manage and protect Kubernetes application data and
workloads between accelerate deployments from test/dev into hybrid and multi-cloud production environments.
OpenShift clusters,
across public clouds, Modern, Manageable & Protected Infrastructure
Unlike open source tools used for protecting Kubernetes apps, Kasten K10 delivers centralized multi-cluster
or even migrating from
management, enterprise security capabilities, and the ability to create application-consistent backups and
other distributions onto export them to off-cluster storage.
OpenShift.
Saved Time, Reduced Complexity & Ease of Use
When It comes to enterprise scale, it’s difficult for organizations to sustain long-term investments in
custom tools. Kasten K10 ensures your applications have a reliable Kubernetes-native backup in place,
allowing your teams to accelerate innovation by reducing the work, time and required skills associated with
roll-your-own data protection software.

Improved Operational Efficiency

OpenShift users need tools and applications that have been built specifically to make full use of
Kubernetes native API’s and components. Kasten K10 provides OpenShift administrators with a single pane
of glass for managing Kubernetes clusters with intelligence and automation at all layers of the backup and
recovery process.

Enhanced Security Capabilities

Kasten K10 on OpenShift ensures your container application data is securely backed up and can be
restored reliably to eliminate data loss in the event of a disaster or malicious attack. Backup is the last line of
defense for OpenShift application data, and Kasten provides air-gapped backup and extended threat
detection through an integration with Red Hat Advanced Cluster security.
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“Kasten K10 empowers

our developers with the
freedom to perform
any infrastructure task
in an intuitive and safe
way. They can decide
for themselves if data is
critical and how often to
create backups. Our
team is lean, so it’s
important that we have
smart automations.
Standardizing on
customizations and
providing self-service
OpenShift Data Protection at Enterprise Scale
through automation
As adoption of Kubernetes expands, Red Hat and Kasten by Veeam are working together to make it easier
saves us lots of time to manage and protect your business-critical data.
and accelerates Modern applications are composed of hundreds of discrete components with independent lifecycles only
development.” visible to Kubernetes, and only a native backup solution built to handle the number of components found in
a large cluster will understand the relationships between applications, data, and their known Kubernetes
state. Key capabilities of Kasten K10 on OpenShift include:
Johan Jansson
Scrum Master & Service
Owner, Zenseact
Auto Discovery of Container Applications
Because Kasten K10 is deployed as a Kubernetes-native application, it can seamlessly and dynamically
interrogate Kubernetes namespaces or OpenShift Projects to discover newly deployed applications and
even automatically protect them without having to configure additional policies or schedules. K10 allows
you to restore the application components you want and where you want them, and applications can be
cloned into a new or existing namespace.

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Red Hat Software Partner Automated & Customizable Policies

Using configurable policies, Kasten K10 can automatically protect existing and newly provisioned workloads
and export snapshot and backup data to an off-site location, such as Object or NFS File Storage. This
enables organizations to embrace a mature backup and disaster recovery strategy. Kasten policies provide
granular control over backup operations, such as frequency, retention, replication, and pre- and post-hook
capabilities to ensure applications are protected in a crash-consistent manner. Operations teams can
define multiple protection policy presets that specify parameters such as schedule, retention, location and
infrastructure.

Simple Creation of Transform Sets

While OpenShift provides organizations with a common, easy-to-use control plane, the underlying
“As the number of infrastructure such as storage classes, ingress, and/or network routes can differ cluster-to-cluster or
containers running in site-to-site. Kasten K10 allows administrators to create transform sets, where applications can be scaled up
production continues or down, spec data changed, or values updated during application migration or restoration.
to increase, organiza- Scalable Multi-Cluster Management
tions need security and Kasten K10 can help you and your organization backup, recover, and move workloads among multiple K10
data protection capa- instances using a multi-cluster deployment. Administrators can define resources, such as Policies and
Profiles within a single K10 web interface, and distribute them automatically to secondary instances, saving
bilities that are able to time, effort, and headache when managing workloads across multiple OpenShift or Kubernetes clusters.
scale with their deploy-
Clean, Simple, and Easy to Use Interface
ments. Through our Red Hat OpenShift and Kasten K10 provide intuitive and powerful interfaces, allowing organizations to
collaboration with easily observe, manage, and configure their cloud-native applications and backup infrastructure through a
Kasten by Veeam, we few simple clicks. For every operation configured within K10, administrators and operators can view the
equivalent Kubernetes-native YAML, making automation and integration a breeze. And because Kasten
are providing custom- K10 can leverage OpenShift OAuth capabilities for access and identity management, users and
ers with additional administrators can ensure a consistent and secure experience across interfaces and clusters.
flexibility and choice in
how they protect their Get Started with Kasten K10 Today
Kubernetes workloads.”
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About Kasten by Veeam

Kasten K10, a Kubernetes data protection platform, provides teams with an easy-to-use, scalable and secure
system for backup & restore, disaster recovery and application mobility.

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