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A NEW SAAS OFFERING FROM CLOUDCASA BY CATALOGIC OFFERS ADDS FUNCTIONALITY SUCH
AS INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING TOOLS TO VELERO, A POPULAR OPEN SOURCE KUBERNETES
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Published: 12 Apr 2023

CloudCasa plans to add a GUI and enterprise-grade functionality to Velero, an
open-source Kubernetes backup tool that operates from a command line.



CloudCasa for Velero, the latest SaaS offering from Kubernetes backup storage
provider CloudCasa by Catalogic, provides a new console to view, monitor and
manage Velero backups of a customer's Kubernetes environment.

The SaaS can be used to create policy templates for protecting future clusters
as well as provide guided steps for data recovery. Customers can import existing
Velero backups into the service without recreating them in CloudCasa or approved
storage.

CloudCasa's existing backup-as-a-service product is based on a combination of
Velero and KubeDR, an application developed by CloudCasa and Catalogic for
Kubernetes container storage interfaces.

CloudCasa for Velero is now generally available and offers a free tier to
monitor Velero environments with up to 15 worker nodes. Additional nodes and
managed support features are available starting at $199 per month. The service
will be bundled into other paid CloudCasa support tiers.

DevOps teams, the primary users of open source tools such as Velero, are willing
to work with command line interfaces and other tools requiring manual
intervention to manage backups, according to Krista Macomber, an analyst at
Evaluator Group. This changes, however, when IT ops teams become involved in
backing up workloads at scale or outside smaller test environments.

"There's a little less hesitation to the DIY approach due to [DevOps] background
and history," Macomber said. "These users are not afraid of scripting. But [what
if] that scales to hundreds or thousands of nodes [and clusters]? Once you start
to go beyond a certain number of clusters, that's when these tasks become
extremely time consuming."


VISUALIZED BACKUPS

Velero is one of the more popular Kubernetes backup services, Macomber said. It
uses the Kubernetes API to capture the state of cluster resources for
restoration but can require additional support software, such as the file backup
tool Restic, to maintain persistent data for applications. Users also need to
provide their own object storage for backups, which can be done using open
source software such as MinIO.

> There's a little less hesitation to the DIY approach due to [DevOps]
> background and history. Krista MacomberAnalyst, Evaluator Group

Velero's popularity, even among enterprise users, comes from the attractive
price point of free, according to both Macomber and CloudCasa executives. That
low cost of entry enables immediate backup capabilities. But it can result in a
morass of backup scheduling and duties hard for ITops teams to manage, according
to Sathya Sankaran, founder and general manager at CloudCasa.

Velero users consider vendor lock-in with their software anathema to the
project's goals, Sankaran said. CloudCasa for Velero aims to provide additional
value to customers without locking them into CloudCasa specifically.

"We are going to build solutions that are open source friendly even if we aren't
friendly [to a competitor]," Sankaran said. "We are not going to have this
religious battle with the community. We are going to play very secular in this
context."

CloudCasa for Velero is delivered as a SaaS, but customers of the CloudCasa
service can cancel without it affecting their existing Velero infrastructure.
What CloudCasa for Velero offers is a litany of SaaS features for Velero users,
including alerts, job monitoring tools, guided recovery and live chat with
CloudCasa support teams.

"The more [an enterprise] scales, the more you're likely to look for a
commercial solution," Sankaran said.

Tim McCarthy is a journalist from the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts. He
covers cloud and data storage news.



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