GKE Backup & Disaster Recovery

Protects stateful GKE workloads using Backup for GKE. Backup for GKE natively captures both Kubernetes resource metadata (manifests, configurations, and secrets) and the underlying persistent volume (PV) data.

CLI Reference

# Enable GKE Backup addon (Slow cluster-level update)
gcloud container clusters update <CLUSTER_NAME> --enable-gke-backup --region <REGION> --quiet

# Create Backup Plan
gcloud container backup-restore backup-plans create <PLAN_NAME> \
  --cluster=<CLUSTER_NAME> --location=<REGION> \
  --retention-days=<DAYS> --cron-schedule="<CRON>" --all-namespaces --quiet