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:

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.

Discovery

Discovery using Discovery now option is always a full discovery.

Discovery when a new cluster is added to the NetBackup is always a full discovery. 

Once the Kubernetes cluster is added, auto discovery cycle is triggered to discover all the assets available on the Kubernetes cluster. The first auto discovery of the day is a full discovery and subsequent auto discoveries are incremental. 

Backup features

The following features are available for backup:

Restore features

The following features are available for restore:

Client side data deduplication support

Client side data deduplication support feature is enabled for Kubernetes.

For more details, refer to the About client-side deduplication section in the NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide.