[Perform Day 2 Operations] A Platform Engineer has a requirement for backup and recovery and would like to leverage an Out- Of-The-Box solution…

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) provides an integrated add-on for Velero, an open-source tool designed specifically for backing up and restoring Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. This out-of-the-box integration allows platform engineers to manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes applications, including disaster recovery, by leveraging a Kubernetes-native solution. Velero captures the state of cluster resources and can back them up to an object store, making it the distributed backup solution for NKP.

A. Tar: This is a generic command-line archiving utility. It is not a Kubernetes-aware solution and is not the distributed backup tool for NKP.

B. Kasten: Kasten K10 is a third-party Kubernetes backup product from Veeam. While it can be used with NKP, it is not the out-of-the-box solution distributed with the platform.

D. Nutanix Snapshot: This is a storage-level feature of the Nutanix AOS platform for protecting VMs. It is not a Kubernetes-native tool for application-aware backup and recovery.

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform 4.1 Documentation

"Data Protection with Velero". This section explicitly states

"Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) provides an add-on for Velero

an open-source tool for backing up and restoring your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes." [URL: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Kubernetes-Platform-v41:ecm-kps-dr-velero-c.html]

Velero Official Documentation

"What is Velero?". This describes Velero as a tool to "back up and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes." [URL: https://velero.io/docs/main/what-is-velero/]