Based on our customer experience and in light of the key considerations that warrant particular attention above we have arrived at following five best practices for Kubernetes backups:

• Architecture - The platform used to protect Kubernetes applications needs to automatically discover all the application components running on your cluster and treat the application as the unit of atomicity.

• Recoverability - The data management platforms must allow you to restore the application components you want and where you want them.

• Operations - It is important to ensure that a Kubernetes-native backup platform can be used at scale, provide operations teams with the workflow capabilities they require, and meets compliance and monitoring requirements.

• Security - Controls around identity and access management and role-based access control (RBAC) must be implemented. RBAC allows different personas in an operations team to adopt a least-privilege approach to common tasks such as monitoring.

• Portability - Living in a multi-hybrid-cloud world, a cloud-native data management platform needs to be able to be flexible in the support for multiple distributions and offer capabilities that allow for the portability of workloads and applications across all these diverse environments.