Introducing and setting up VMware’s Velero

Velero is an open-source backup solution for Kubernetes that was originally developed by a company called Heptio. As VMware has enhanced its support for Kubernetes, it has purchased multiple companies, and Heptio is one of its acquisitions, bringing Velero into the VMware portfolio.

VMware has moved most of its offerings around Kubernetes under the Tanzu umbrella. This can be a little confusing for some people since the original iteration of Tanzu was a deployment of multiple components that added Kubernetes support to vSphere clusters. Since the initial incarnation of Tanzu, it has come to include components such as Velero, Harbor, and the Tanzu Application Platform (TAP), none of which require vSphere to function; they will run natively in any standard Kubernetes cluster.

Even with all of the ownership and branding changes, the base functions of Velero have remained. It offers many features that are only available in commercial...