Auto Netbackup Kubernetes Agent Configuration

Adds Kubernetes cluster and configurations such as storage class and volume snapshot class, and data mover configuration can be done with automated deployment supported.

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 Discover 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.

Auto Image Replication (AIR)

The backups that are generated in one NetBackup Kubernetes cluster can be replicated to storage in one or more target NetBackup domains. This also is referred to as AIR. The ability to replicate backups to storage in other NetBackup domains.

The Auto Image Replication (AIR) is supported for only Full schedules.

Protection of Stateful applications

Kubernetes application using persistent volumes to maintain there states can be protected. Backup and restore of Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) of mode file system and/or block for the Container Storage Interface (CSI) providers which supports the following features:

Import and verify

Import is a two step operation, the first step recreates the catalog entries for the backups that are on the specified media. Once the second phase import has been completed catalog entries for files were backed up by those images will be created.

Verify: NetBackup can verify the contents of a backup by comparing its contents to what is recorded in the NetBackup catalog.

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) support for Red Hat platforms

NetBackup Kubernetes on Red Hat platform provides support to FIPS compliant communication.

Accelerator backup support for Kubernetes

NetBackup supports accelerator backup for Kubernetes workloads and it reduces the backup time.