Backing up Google Kubernetes Engine applications

With R‑Cloud, you can back up your GKE application data securely and efficiently.

Prerequisite

Only if you plan to back up applications running on clusters that use Shared VPC networks. Your user account or the HYCU Managed Service Account (HMSA) must be granted the following permissions in the Shared VPC host project: compute.firewalls.list, compute.networks.list, compute.networks.get, compute.subnetworks.list, compute.subnetworks.use, and compute.subnetworks.get.

Limitation

GKE application data can be stored only to Google Cloud targets.

Consideration

Only if the target defined in the policy that you plan to assign to GKE applications has a service account other than the HMSA specified. R‑Cloud uses this service account to access the GKE applications that you are backing up.

To access the Applications panel, in the navigation pane, click Applications Applications.

Procedure

  1. In the Applications panel, select the applications that you want to back up.

    Tip  To narrow down the list of displayed applications, you can use the filtering options as described in Filtering and sorting data.

  2. Click Policies Set Policy. The Set Policy dialog box opens.

  3. From the list of available policies, select the preferred policy.

  4. Click Assign to assign the policy to the selected applications.

After you assign a policy to an application, a backup task starts immediately. Subsequent backups are scheduled according to the values defined in the policy.

If required, you can also perform a manual backup of any application at any time. For details, see Performing manual backups.