GKE Backup & Disaster Recovery

Protects stateful GKE workloads using Backup for GKE. Backup for GKE can capture both Kubernetes resource metadata (manifests, configurations, and secrets) and the underlying persistent volume (PV) data — but volume data and secrets are only captured when the backup plan explicitly enables them (see the flags below).

CLI Reference

# Enable the BackupRestore addon (Slow cluster-level update)
gcloud container clusters update {cluster_name} \
  --update-addons=BackupRestore=ENABLED --location={location} --quiet