Using Velero to Protect Cluster API

[carlisia]

by @scottslowe:

Cluster API (also known as CAPI) is, as you may already know, an effort within the upstream Kubernetes community to apply Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster lifecycle management—in short, to use Kubernetes to manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters. If you’re unfamiliar with CAPI, I’d encourage you to check out my introduction to Cluster API before proceeding. In this post, I’m going to show you how to use Velero (formerly Heptio Ark) to backup and restore Cluster API objects so as to protect your organization against an unrecoverable issue on your Cluster API management cluster.

To be honest, this process is so straightforward it almost doesn’t need to be explained.

For more:
https://blog.scottlowe.org/2021/01/11/using-velero-to-protect-cluster-api/