Afi SaaS backup for Kubernetes service provides Kubernetes-native protection for clusters and applications. It supports disaster recovery and application mobility scenarios; Afi protects cluster and application (namespace) configuration as well as persistent volume data. It supports many popular applications in public clouds (GCP, AWS, Azure), and on-premises Kubernetes environments, supporting various scenarios and use-cases.
Afi supports backup and recovery of cluster, namespace configuration, and persistent volume snapshots. Volume snapshots rely on a CSI driver installed in the cluster.
Afi Kubernetes backup features include:
- Application-aware backup and recovery of Kubernetes applications.
- Full and granular Kubernetes application (namespace) recovery to the same namespace or to another (existing or new) namespace.
- Cross-cluster recovery and migration
- Export of Kubernetes application objects from a backup in a YAML format.
- Multi-tenant Afi portal supports multiple Kubernetes clusters management from a single UI.
- Kubernetes-native API to manage backups and run restores.
- Backup encryption, including support for customer-managed keys (BYOK).
- Full access to Afi platform features, including monitoring, reporting, alerting, audit, and access management capabilities.
What Kubernetes data can you backup with Afi:
- Namespaced and non-namespaced API Kubernetes configuration objects, including custom resources.
- PersistentVolumeClaims and PersistentVolumes provisioned by CSI drivers.
- Cloud-native environments (GCP, AWS, Azure)
Supported environments
Afi supports managed Kubernetes deployments in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, as well as on-premises Kubernetes deployments.
For persistent volume backup, a CSI driver must be installed in a cluster and must support the following features:
- snapshots,
- dynamic provisioning.
Officially supported applications:
- PostgreSQL
- deployed with a Bitnami chart (https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/master/bitnami/postgresql),
- deployed by Zalando operator (https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator),
- ElasticSearch
- deployed with a Bitnami chart (https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/master/bitnami/elasticsearch),
- MongoDB
- deployed by MongoDB community operator (https://github.com/mongodb/mongodb-kubernetes-operator/blob/master/docs/install-upgrade.md)
- RabbitMQ
- deployed by RabbitMQ cluster operator (https://github.com/rabbitmq/cluster-operator),
- Grafana
- Wordpress with MariaDB backend
- deployed with a Bitnami chart (https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/master/bitnami/wordpress),
- Redis
- deployed with a Bitnami chart (https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/master/bitnami/redis),
- Etcd
- deployed with a Bitnami chart (https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/master/bitnami/etcd),