Velero - The Cloud Native Backup for Kubernetes

Valero is an open-source backup and recovery tool for Kubernetes that has a vibrant and diverse community of contributors and maintainers.

• Valero has over 6,000 stars on GitHub and more than 1,000 forks
• The community has over 230 active contributors from diverse organizations and locations around the world
• Valero's community is welcoming to new contributors and has a well-described governance document for getting started
• Valero has weekly community meetings alternating between US/China and US/European time zones
• Valero has two main Slack channels for developers and users to ask questions and discuss issues
• Valero recently released version 1.9 with new features like a CSI plugin and updates to existing resource policies

During a demonstration, the speaker showed how Valero can restore a Kubernetes deployment to its previous state after a failed update, without losing any data or configurations.

In this session will cover Velero project(Ark by Heptio) Velero provides the cloud native way to backup and restore or even migrate your Kubernetes clusters and resources. This session will cover the basics with demos like: - install - setup - usage of Velero - cover few scenarios where Velero can save our infra/business. As a second part of the talk will discuss the Velero Community how it's working and how you can join us in our journey in the Cloud Native World. The main takeaways from this talk will be better understanding of the need and to be able to backup your Kubernetes resources and how you can achieve that with Velero and community how everyone can benefit from it!