Kanister.io: Application Consistent Backups on Kubernetes

Cloud-native applications comprise various components including data services, storage systems, and related Kubernetes objects. Each component requires its own data protection tools, strategy, and domain expertise. A robust solution aligned with business requirements often involves complex workflows.
As databases and persistent workloads hosted on Kubernetes grows, cloud native data protection is needed to address the gaps of traditional backup and recovery solutions.
While there are many open source and commercial offerings in the market, many automate backups with scripting and cron, addressing only the first step of data protection.
This talk explores typical challenges of data protection on Kubernetes and describes how we can manage the data protection complexity using K8s and Kanister.
Followed by a live demo featuring application-consistent backup and restore of AWS RDS.