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Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes

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Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-08-03 18:11:08 UTC to 2018-07-13 03:15:46 UTC.

012017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20172017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 20182018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2018

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Aug 20172017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 20172017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20172017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20172017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20172017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20182018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20182018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20182018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20182018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20182018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20182018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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hardwaresofton·May 2, 2018
Note that none of those things are impossible on kubernetes, k8s just doesn't offer them by default (which is good IMO). There are projects that help you run databases in kubernetes and also make backups of many things hosted: - Automatic CephFS for your cluster -> https://rook.io/docs/rook/master/ - Backups for cluster resources and volumes -> https://github.com/heptio/ark - Spin up dynamic postgres clusters -> https://github.com/zalando-incubator/postgres-operator Databases are just applications with different resource needs. Please stop pushing forward the notion that they can't be run in containers or container orchestration systems. Databases are just programs. If the substrate for running your containers doensn't reliably support flock or fsync or something your database needs, then maybe pick a better substrate that does -- contain
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er runtimes these days and kubernetes don't stand in your way these days.
In Stateful Apps on Kubernetes: A quick primer

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