Trilio for Kubernetes: Backup and Disaster Recovery
Native Kubernetes Data Protection Recovery in Minutes
Trilio for Kubernetes provides scalable, agentless Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery for cloud-native applications on OpenShift and Kubernetes. With 80% faster recovery times, seamless migration, and granular recovery, Trilio helps businesses in financial services, telecom, and tech to minimize downtime, future-proof their infrastructure, and meet compliance needs in highly regulated environments.
Easy Recovery of Kubernetes Virtual Machines and Containers
Restore Virtual Machines as easy as Containers with Trilio
Watch the video to see the simplicity of restoring Virtual Machines in Kubernetes using Trilio.
Why Trilio for Kubernetes for Container & Virtual Machine Backups
Virtual Machines Recovery in Minutes with 40x Faster RTO
Recover Kubernetes containers and KubeVirt virtual machines in two to three minutes, about 40x faster when compared to recovery without the Trilio-patented Continuous Restore feature. Continuous Restore eliminates hours of downtime and reduces the financial impact of outages—especially critical in industries like financial services and telecom.
Recovery of Individual Files and Folders, Saving Time and Bandwidth
Most backup solutions require you to recover entire virtual machines, which can take hours and days – especially over slow connections. Trilio for Kubernetes enables you to recover individual files and folders, saving time and bandwidth. Simply mount the backup as a virtual disk and copy over the files and folders you need.
Seamless Integration and Migration Across Platforms
Trilio integrates natively with OpenShift and other Kubernetes distributions as well as OpenShift Virtualization and other KubeVirt distributions, supporting backup, migration, and recovery across clusters. You can easily move between environments or restore data on any infrastructure—from on-premises to hyperscalers—ensuring business continuity in regulated industries where platform flexibility is key.
Future-proof Data Compliance with Industry-Standard Formats
Trilio uses industry-standard formats like QCOW2 and JSON to ensure your backups remain accessible on any platform. This guarantees long-term compliance without locking you into proprietary systems—an essential feature for highly regulated sectors.
Self-service, Agentless Backup and Restore
Trilio’s agentless solution integrates with native Kubernetes RBAC, enabling self-service backups without waiting for a response to an IT ticket. For advanced VM workloads, such as databases, optional agents provide features like application consistency and more granular control, meeting the demands of complex tech environments.
Backup Automation Reduces Operational Burden
Automate backup and recovery with Trilio’s certified Kubernetes Ansible role and ready-to-use Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) policies. Ensure consistent backups for stateful applications like databases using hooks or read-only states during backups, minimizing data integrity risks. This reduces operational overhead while ensuring governance, particularly for financial and telecom environments.
Comprehensive Protection for Kubernetes Operators and Helm Apps
Trilio backs up custom, OLM, and third-party Kubernetes Operators, as well as Helm applications. This offers granular control over releases and configurations for easy rollbacks, migrations, and restores—ideal for highly customized tech and telecom setups.
Ransomware Protection with Immutable Backups
Backups are only effective against ransomware if they are not affected themselves. That’s why Trilio for Kubernetes creates immutable backups that cannot be overwritten, even by ransomware. When these cold backups are stored in an AWS S3 bucket, credentials are all you need to recover your workloads to anywhere in the world – and you’re up and running again.
Secure, scalable backup for hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Trilio supports secure backups across NFS, S3, and container blob storage, making it ideal for hybrid and multi-cloud setups. Its architecture allows you to easily scale your backup infrastructure by adding workloads as needed, ensuring flexibility for even the largest environments. Trilio also ensures compliance and security in air-gapped and highly regulated industries like finance and telecom, with incremental forever backups to minimize storage use and avoid data duplication.
Data Protection For all Kubernetes Distributions
Trilio is designed to backup and restore applications and VMs deployed on all Kubernetes distributions, on-premises or public cloud
“My preferred Backup software to recommend when there is no incumbent vendor is Trilio. Trilio provides cloud-native backup capabilities and has implemented features like incremental backups without CSI dependencies.”
Julio Villarreal Pelegrino, Kubernetes Expert, in his article on Julio’s Blog.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Trilio for Kubernetes backup?
Trilio performs application-centric backups, meaning Trilio includes everything which is required to be able to recover your entire application and virtual machines
Trilio protects the following
- Helm Applications
- Label based Deployments
- Operators (including OLM Operators)
- Virtual Machines
- Persistent Volumes
- Container Image Repository
- Metadata
How can you restore applications and virtual machines?
There are a multiple options to recover your workloads.
- Operational Recovery (on the fly)
- Disaster Recovery
- Malware and Ransomware Recovery
- Test/Dev
- Data Only (Persistent Volumes)
- Metadata Only (application only)
- Recover to Any Kubernetes cluster – on-prem or public cloud
- Files/Folder-Level Restore
Can I use Trilio with RBAC?
Trilio is designed for Kubernetes Role Based Access Control, allowing Kubernetes administrators the ability to set policies on who gets the permission to recover workloads and applications.
Furthermore, Trilio uses DEX IdP for Federated IdP and SSO.
Is Trilio for Kubernetes a SaaS service?
Trilio is not a SaaS service, it is all under your direct control. You simply add Trilio to where you require backup and recovery of your applications, operators and virtual machines and data does not have to leave your datacenter or public cloud region.
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Kubernetes Backup and Recovery Use Cases
Kubernetes Backup and Recovery
Recover any application, persistent volume claim, or helm application release, and even operators to any Kubernetes cluster - including recovery of container repostory images.
Migration
Use Trilio to migrate workloads from on-premises infrastructure to public clouds such as from Upstream Kubernetes in your datacenter to Google GKE or Red Hat OpenShift on AWS. Trilio provides a powerful Transformation feature that enables application recovery between different architecture and avoid resource conflicts.
Disaster and Ransomware Recovery
Encrypt your backups on any storage. Prevent unauthorized changes with immutable backups. Trust your backups to recover from Ransomware and malware. Recover to any Kubernetes cluster where Trilio is deployed. Utilize Trilio's Continuous Restore feature to continually send the latest Persistent Volume data to any number of other Kubernetes clusters to provide immediate failover in the event of a disaster.
Automation
Utilize Trilio as part of development CI/CD pipelines to move data between production, development and testing. Use Trilio's Ansible automation playbooks to execute orchestrated and repeatable backup and recovery actions. And take control of policy and governance through Kyverno and OpenShift ACM.
