OpenShift Commons Briefing on OpenShift API Data Protection OADP with Ceph CSI

In this OpenShift Commons Briefing, Red Hat’s Annette Clewett, Dylan Murray, and Raghu Manjunath discuss and demonstrate how OpenShift API Data Protection (OADP) and Ceph-CSI provide a strong foundation for developing a cluster level backup and recovery solution for OpenShift workloads. There are many popular Enterprise backup solution providers planning to deliver their products for OpenShift, building on this OADP API  & Ceph CSI foundation.

OADP is a community operator available in OpenShift’s OperatorHub today and exposes the Velero APIs for backup, restore, and scheduling. Ceph-CSI is now capable of creating volume snapshots and this capability is now available in Rook release-1.4 and soon to be released in OpenShift Container Storage 4.6 late 2020. The Velero CSI plugin works with Ceph-CSI and the VolumeSnapshotClass resource to create a snapshot of persistent volumes when a backup is initiated for the application using the persistent volume.

Slides from the Briefing

Follow this guide to install OADP from OperatorHub.

Resources:

• Velero
• Ceph CSI (Container Storage Interface) Driver
• Rook
• OpenShift Container Storage
• OpenShift Velero Plugin
• Velero CSI Plugin

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