Backup and Disaster Recovery for Kubernetes
Automate and Orchestrate Cloud-native Protection with Zerto for Kubernetes
The State of Data Protection for Kubernetes
Learn about the elements required to protect containerized applications and data and how Zerto can help.
Zerto’s Vision for Next-gen Applications
Zerto for Kubernetes extends our enterprise-class VM and cloud platform to cloud native applications that are built on containers.
As more enterprises move to a DevOps model, the reliance on microservices requires a better data protection strategy than is typically seen. Continuous data protection (CDP) ensures your data protection strategy can keep up with the fast-paced world of containers.
Combine Zerto’s industry-leading CDP and journaling technology to provide the best protection for Kubernetes workloads whether running on-premises or in the cloud.
Zerto for Kubernetes: Overview
The blistering pace at which businesses are adopting cloud-native architectures means new information is always coming to light.
It’s clear that containerized applications require disaster recovery, backup, and mobility—and selecting the right data protection solution makes a substantial difference in your organization’s agility. To ensure you provide both your IT/I&O and DevOps teams with the capabilities and outcomes they require to make the most out of your containerized applications and data, Zerto for Kubernetes offers:
What You Should Know
Container technologies are becoming increasingly popular due to their technical and organizational advantages. The major driving advantage is a renewed focus on accelerating the software development life cycle, which led to the adoption of several DevOps practices such as cloud-native microservices.
Using containers, application developers are able to package small, focused code into independent, portable modules. Critically, these modules also include what’s needed to run the code—and only what’s needed—making them lightweight and efficient.
ESG Research reports that containers adoption is accelerating and in position to become the most widely used, go-to choice for production deployment in the coming years, ahead of virtual machines.
ESG: Data Protection Trends and Strategies for Containers
Container Orchestration: A Must
With the explosion in both container usage and the total number of containers to be managed, many DevOps teams land on using Kubernetes, the de-facto standard for container orchestration.
The Data Protection Challenges of Containers
Although Kubernetes includes some limited options for data storage and data protection, there are gaps when it comes to true end-to-end protection and resilience:
Containers & Pipelines
Protecting the whole chain that produces container images including all configuration scripts.
Capturing current state of running containers.
Stateless vs. Stateful
Protecting persistent application data
Organizational Alignment of Cloud Services
Ensuring a consistent approach to accessing and managing cloud storage.
The State of Data Protection for Kubernetes in a Nutshell
Zerto for Kubernetes: Data Protection as Code
It’s clear that containerized applications require backup and disaster recovery and application mobility. Zerto for Kubernetes provides both your IT/IO and DevOps teams with the capabilities and outcomes you require—availability and resilience without sacrificing development speed of cloud native applications and services —with a cloud native approach for backup, disaster recovery and application mobility.
Introducing Zerto for Kubernetes
Get an exclusive deep-dive into how Zerto for Kubernetes will empower your DevOps and I&O teams with continuous backup, disaster recovery, and long-term retention for this new containerized world.
Flexible Scale-out Architecture
Zerto for Kubernetes offers a flexible architecture that can easily scale up or scale out.
- Licensed per vCPU on worker nodes, effectively removing the limit on clusters and nodes.
- Built for Kubernetes on Kubernetes, Zerto for Kubernetes runs in its own namespace, and easily installs using Helm and makes use of lightweight microservices for fast efficient data protection.
- Can be deployed in a variety of architectures to best suit your organizational needs.
Zerto Kubernetes Manager (ZKM), one of the key components of the Zerto for Kubernetes architecture, can be deployed in production, DR, or standalone clusters.
451 Research: How Zerto Protects Stateful Container Applications
Zerto for Kubernetes Architecture Guide
Benefits of Zerto for Kubernetes
Working with many of the most recognized partners in the cloud native world, Zerto for Kubernetes delivers key business benefits with its backup, disaster recovery and mobility for Kubernetes applications, utilizing persistent data, running on-premises or in the cloud.
“Our platform has fundamentally changed the way companies protect and backup data across their organizations. With the clear shift towards containerized application development in the market, we are looking to extend our platform to offer these applications the same level of resilience we have delivered to VM-based applications.”
Gil Levonai, former CMO and SVP Product
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