/blog/ Recent content in Blog on Velero Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us /blog/Velero-1.11/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/Velero-1.11/ We haven’t posted for while, but this deserves your attention! Last week during KubeCon Europe in Amsterdam we released Velero v1.11, which brings significant improvements in its functionality, flexibility, and performance. In this blog post, we will discuss the new features and changes that come with Velero v1.11 and how they can benefit users. The theme of the v1.11 release is most definitely more flexibility, not only with the features added, but also in terms of the Velero contribution, development, and quality assurance processes. /blog/Velero-1.6-Bring-All-Your-Credentials/ Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/Velero-1.6-Bring-All-Your-Credentials/ A highly requested feature for Velero has been designed and implemented in the latest 1.6 release, and that is the ability for Velero to handle multiple credentials for providers. We are very excited to deliver this feature, as well as other features such as progress reporting for restores and better restoring with the most accurate resource version. The theme of the v1.6 release is most definitely more flexibility, not only with the features added, but also in terms of the Velero contribution, development, and quality assurance processes. /blog/Velero-1.5-For-And-By-Community/ Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/Velero-1.5-For-And-By-Community/ Velero continues to evolve and gain adoption in the Kubernetes community. It is with pride and excitement that we announce the release of Velero 1.5. With new features and functionalities, like using restic to backup pod volumes without adding annotations to pods, introducing the new DeleteItemAction plugin type, supporting hooks to customize restore operations, the broad theme for this release is operational ease. We Stand Against Racism Before diving into the features in this release, we would like to state explicitly that we stand in solidarity against racism and, to that effect, we have made the following changes to the Velero project: /blog/CSI-integration/ Wed, 27 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/CSI-integration/ In the recent 1.4 release of Velero, we announced a new feature of supporting CSI snapshotting using the Kubernetes CSI Snapshot Beta APIs. With this capability of CSI volume snapshotting, Velero can now support any volume provider that has a CSI driver with snapshotting capability, without requiring a Velero-specific volume snapshotter plugin to be available. This post has the necessary instructions for you to start using this feature. Getting Started Using the CSI volume snapshotting features in Velero involves the following steps. /blog/Velero-1.4-Community-Wave/ Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/Velero-1.4-Community-Wave/ The Velero team is excited to announce the launch of Velero v1.4.0! This release is one of our largest since v1.0.0, with many of our new features coming from community contributors. Beta CSI Support Velero v1.4.0 now extends Velero’s support for snapshotting beyond Velero’s native VolumeSnapshotter plugins to include beta support for the Kubernetes Container Storage Interface volume snapshotting capabilities. The Container Storage Interface (CSI) is a way for container orchestrators such as Kubernetes to provide a standard interface for storage systems, without having to create drivers for each orchestration system. /blog/Velero-1.3-Voyage-Continues/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/Velero-1.3-Voyage-Continues/ Velero’s voyage continues with the release of version 1.3, which includes improvements to CRD backups and restores, multi-arch Docker images including support for arm/arm64 and ppc64le, and many other usability and stability enhancements. This release includes significant contributions by community members, and we’re thrilled to be able to partner with you all in continuing to improve Velero. Let’s take a deeper look at some of this release’s highlights. Custom Resource Definition Backup and Restore Improvements This release includes a number of related bug fixes and improvements to how Velero backs up and restores custom resource definitions (CRDs) and instances of those CRDs. /blog/Velero-1.2-Sets-Sail/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/Velero-1.2-Sets-Sail/ Velero continues to evolve with the release of version 1.2. With this release, we’ve focused on extracting in-tree cloud provider plugins into their own repositories, making further usability improvements to the restic integration, preparing for the general availability of Kubernetes custom resource definitions (CRDs) by adding a structural schema to our CRDs, and many other new features and usability improvements. Let’s take a look at the highlights for this release. /blog/Velero-v1-1-Stateful-Backup-vSphere/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/Velero-v1-1-Stateful-Backup-vSphere/ Velero version 1.1 provides support to backup applications orchestrated on upstream Kubernetes running natively on vSphere. This post will provide detailed information on how to use Velero v1.1 to backup and restore a stateful application (Cassandra) that is running in a Kubernetes cluster deployed on vSphere. At this time there is no vSphere plugin for snapshotting stateful applications during a Velero backup. In this case, we rely on a third party program called restic to copy the data contents from Persistent Volumes. /blog/Velero-v1-1-on-vSphere/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/Velero-v1-1-on-vSphere/ Velero version 1.1 provides support to backup Kubernetes applications deployed on vSphere. This post will provide detailed information on how to install and configure Velero to backup and restore a stateless application (nginx) that is running in Kubernetes on vSphere. At this time there is no vSphere plugin for snapshotting stateful applications on vSphere during a Velero backup. In this case, we rely on a third party program called restic. However this post does not include an example of how to backup a stateful application. /blog/announcing-gh-move/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/announcing-gh-move/ Big announcement We are now part of a brand new GitHub organization: VMware Tanzu. VMware Tanzu is a new family of projects, products and services for the cloud native world. With the Velero project being a cloud native technology that extends Kubernetes, it is only natural that it would be moved to sit alongside all the other VMware-supported cloud native repositories. You can read more about this change in this VMware blog post. /blog/announcing-velero-1.1/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/announcing-velero-1.1/ We’ve made big strides in improving Velero. Since our release of version 1.0 in May 2019, we have been hard at work improving our restic support and planning for the future of Velero. In addition, we’ve seen some helpful contributions from the community that will make life easier for all of our users. Also, the Velero community has reached 100 contributors! For this release, we’ve focused on improving Velero’s restic integration: making repository locks shorter lived, giving more visibility into restic repositories when migrating clusters, and expanding support to more volume types. /blog/velero-1.0-has-arrived/ Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/velero-1.0-has-arrived/ Just three months after the release of Velero 0.11, the community’s momentum continues with the delivery of the landmark version 1.0 release. This significant release improves the installation experience, Helm support, the plugin system, and overall stability. We want to thank the community and the team, and acknowledge all of their hard work and amazing contributions to this major milestone. Data protection is always a chief concern for application owners who want to make sure that they can restore a cluster to a known good state, recover from a crashed cluster, or migrate to a new environment. /blog/Velero-is-an-Open-Source-Tool-to-Back-up-and-Migrate-Kubernetes-Clusters/ Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/Velero-is-an-Open-Source-Tool-to-Back-up-and-Migrate-Kubernetes-Clusters/ Velero is an open source tool to safely back up, recover, and migrate Kubernetes clusters and persistent volumes. It works both on premises and in a public cloud. Velero consists of a server process running as a deployment in your Kubernetes cluster and a command-line interface (CLI) with which DevOps teams and platform operators configure scheduled backups, trigger ad-hoc backups, perform restores, and more. What Makes Velero Stand Out? Unlike other tools which directly access the Kubernetes etcd database to perform backups and restores, Velero uses the Kubernetes API to capture the state of cluster resources and to restore them when necessary.