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Kubernetes backup sounds straightforward until you look closely at what a real application includes. A production workload usually spans Kubernetes resources, cluster configuration, persistent volumes, secrets, service accounts, network policies, and external dependencies such as cloud databases or object storage. Protecting one of those layers helps. Protecting all of them in a coordinated way is what makes recovery practical.

DevOps engineers running OpenShift know the platform well. They know how to build on it, scale on it, and operate it under pressure. What they often hit unexpectedly is the question of backup and recovery, especially once OpenShift Virtualization enters the picture. Most of the tooling that exists today wasn’t built with Kubernetes in mind. It was built for something else and extended toward it.