Kubernetes Storage & Backup
Persistent storage and disaster recovery on Kubernetes: storage classes, Longhorn distributed storage, Velero backups, and etcd backup and restore.
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Part 1 of 4
Kubernetes Storage Basics with K3s and RKE2
Containers are ephemeral by design. When a pod dies, everything inside it vanishes. That works fine for stateless web frontends, but the moment you run a…
10 min read·Mar 2026
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Part 2 of 4
Deploy Longhorn Distributed Storage on Kubernetes (Proxmox)
Deploy Longhorn 1.11 distributed block storage on a Kubernetes 1.34 cluster running on Proxmox: 3-replica volumes, snapshots, S3 backups, and a node-failure drill.
14 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 3 of 4
Velero Kubernetes Backup: Namespace, PVC, and Disaster Recovery
etcd snapshots protect cluster state, but they don’t capture your application data. If a MariaDB pod stores data on a persistent volume and you restore from…
16 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 4 of 4
etcd Backup and Restore for Kubernetes Disaster Recovery
Your etcd cluster just lost quorum at 3am. The Kubernetes API server won’t respond, kubectl hangs, and your on-call engineer is staring at a terminal with…
16 min read·Apr 2026