[middle-marathon]

As a relative newcomer to k8s I was a bit surprised at the lack of backup tools available, coming from the world of on-prem Veeam which had more features than I knew what to do with. In my current role we had to find a way to back up our Postgres DBs running on k8s. We started using Kanister to actually take the backups but found there wasn't much around to actually manage the backups' lifecycle. I ended up writing Taweret (https://github.com/swissDataScienceCenter/taweret), a small tool which just ends up interacting with the Kanister CRDs to delete backups we no longer require based on a defined backups strategy.

[ithkuil]

But that's what k8s is. It's not a tool that does a thing, but rather a set of APIs and patterns that let you glue together many tools that will let you a thing (for better or worse)

[middle-marathon]

Sure, I meant there wasn't really much around which ran on k8s to manage backups.