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Red Hat Brings Backup, Snapshots to OpenShift Container Storage

Open source enterprise software provider Red Hat has launched new capabilities for its OpenShift Container Storage, which works closely with its OpenShift Kubernetes platform, to provide its customers with enhanced data resilience features. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6 adds snapshots, OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP), and support for the new functionality by a dozen different backup solutions.

It’s a very easy architecture to understand, and how to handle things like consistency and backups,” explained Pete Brey, marketing manager of hybrid cloud object storage at Red Hat.

With Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6, customizable, point-in-time snapshots and clones of persistent data volumes will be orchestrated by the Container Storage Interface (CSI), though Brey further clarified CSI alone was not responsible for the full functionality.

OpenShift Container Storage users will be able to access these data resilience features and configurations either through the OpenShift user interface or via the OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP), which also enable Red Hat’s partner ecosystem to integrate their data protection solutions with OpenShift.