Customizing the Kasten Grafana dashboard for multi-cluster visibility
In this blog, we will customize the public Kasten Grafana dashboard to provide multi-cluster visibility from a centralized Prometheus backend.
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Application-Consistent PostgreSQL Backups on Kubernetes: CloudNativePG, Barman, and Kasten
In this post, we learn how we can protect CloudNativePG with Barman and Kasten
The Bots are Coming for Your Data
In this post, we reflect on current affairs and the risk that rogue AI poses to data and security
"We're stateless, we just redeploy from Git" — five reasons that's false confidence
A lot of teams believe a stateless application is safe because it can be rebuilt from a Git commit at any time. That belief quietly ignores the metadata layer — and five very real failure modes, the last of which no rebuild can ever fix. Here is why your metadata deserves an immutable backup too.
Enforcing Governance in Kasten v9.0 with Admission Controllers
A hands-on look at Kasten v9.0's Technical Preview for enforcing admission control policies on backup and restore operations with Kyverno, OPA Gatekeeper, or native Kubernetes Validating Admission Policies.
Understanding Kasten immutability: retention vs. protection period
Two concepts people constantly conflate — the retention of a restore point, set in the policy, and the immutability protection period, set on the location profile — and how the Blob Lifecycle Manager keeps your backups locked for exactly as long as they need to be.