NetBackup™ Web UI Kubernetes Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.1)

Features of NetBackup support for Kubernetes

Table: NetBackup for Kubernetes

Feature

Description

Integration with NetBackup role-based access control (RBAC)

The NetBackup web UI provides RBAC roles to control which NetBackup users can manage Kubernetes operations in NetBackup. The user does not need to be a NetBackup administrator to manage Kubernetes operations.

Licensing

Capacity-based licensing.

Protection plans

The following benefits are included:

  • Use a single protection plan to protect multiple Kubernetes namespaces. The assets can be spread over multiple clusters.

  • Ability to retain or discard partially successful backups.

  • You are not required to know the Kubernetes commands to protect the Kubernetes assets.

Intelligent management of Kubernetes assets

NetBackup automatically discovers the namespaces, persistent volumes, persistent volume claims, and so on, in the Kubernetes clusters. You can also perform manual discovery. After the assets are discovered, the Kubernetes workload administrator can select one or more protection plans to protect them.

Kubernetes specific credentials

Kubernetes service accounts used to authenticate and manage the clusters.

Backup and restore features

The following features are available for backup and restore:

  • Backups and restore are managed entirely by the NetBackup server from a central location. Administrators can schedule automatic, unattended backups for namespaces on different Kubernetes clusters.

  • The NetBackup web UI supports the backup and restore of namespaces from one interface.

  • Backup schedules for full backups.

  • Manual backups and snapshot only backups.

  • Restore Kubernetes namespaces and persistent volumes to different locations.

  • Resource throttling for each cluster to improve the performance of backups.

Snapshot backups

NetBackup can perform backups of Kubernetes namespaces with snapshot methodology, achieving faster recovery time objectives.