Protecting Red Hat OpenShift Containerized Environment with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Introduction

This IBM® Redpaper publication describes support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform application data protection with IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus. It explains backup and restore operations for persistent volume data by using the Container Storage Interface (CSI) plug-in.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introducing containers
Chapter 2. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus architecture
Chapter 3. Installing IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a containerized application
Chapter 4. Container Backup Support
Chapter 5. Implementing Container Backup Support
Chapter 6. Using Container Backup Support
Chapter 7. Red Hat OpenShift cluster disaster recovery solution

More Information at IBM Spectrum Protect Plus: Protecting Red Hat OpenShift Containerized Environments

IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access (CNSA)

IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) allows the deployment of Spectrum Scale in a Red Hat OpenShift cluster. Using a remote mount attached file system, CNSA provides a persistent data store to be accessed by the applications via the IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver using Persistent Volumes (PVs).