Compatibility Overview

Kubernetes

CloudCasa supports all CNCF certified Kubernetes distributions and hosted services based on Kubernetes version 1.20 or higher as clients.

Through Catalogic Software’s many industry partnerships, compatibility has been verified with all major Kubernetes distributions (e.g. Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher, VMware Tanzu) and cloud services (e.g. AKS, EKS, GKE, DigitalOcean, IBM Cloud, OKE, OVHcloud).

Supported CPU architectures: amd64/x86-64 and arm64

For backups utilizing snapshots, CSI drivers that support the CSI snapshot interface must be used, and the cluster must be configured to support snapshots. Live backups can be used for any PVs that do not support snapshots.

See also

For more information on supported Kubernetes clients see Supported Kubernetes Clients.

Cloud account linking

CloudCasa optionally integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud accounts, allowing backup/restore of cloud cluster configuration and automatic cluster creation on restore.

When linked to an AWS account, backup/restore of all Amazon RDS databases, including Aurora, is also supported.

See also

For more information on cloud account linking see Cloud Accounts.

Supported source storage

CloudCasa supports nearly all PV types with at least one of its available backup methods.

CloudCasa backup methods that involve taking a snapshot require snapshot support from the storage driver. This generally means that it must support the CSI Volume Snapshot API, although creating snapshots using the now deprecated in-tree provisioners for awsElasticBlockStore, azureDisk, and gcePersistentDisk is also still supported.

Direct copy or “live backup” methods (i.e. “Read data from PVC” or “Read data from underlying host volume”) should work for nearly all PV types, but they are generally less preferable to backup methods using snapshots.

See also

For more information on supported PV types see Supported PV types.

Supported backup storage

The following storage is supported as destinations for backups.

  • Object storage: AWS S3, S3-compatible, and Azure Blob storage

  • File storage: NFS and SMB shares

Through Catalogic Software’s many industry partnerships, compatibility has been verified with most major object storage providers, including Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Backblaze, Ceph, DataCore, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, IONOS, OVHcloud, Hitachi, and Wasabi.

CloudCasa DR

Storage systems supported by the CloudCasa DR feature include:

  • SUSE Storage or Longhorn using Longhorn Disaster Recovery Volumes

  • HPE Alletra Storage 9000 and Alletra Storage MP B10000 storage arrays using HPE Remote Copy

See also

Contact CloudCasa support to verify compatibility with non-conformant Kubernetes distributions or other configurations not mentioned here.