SeriesA guided journey · 5 parts

NDK in practice

Protecting Kubernetes applications with Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes 2.3 on NKP 2.18, step by step and verified on a live cluster: the Application model, snapshot and restore, scheduled protection and retention, replication to a second cluster, and day-2 operations.

Parts

38 min

Total read

Intermediate

Level

NDK 2.3 / NKP 2.18 / AOS 7.6

Stack

Track your progress as you read each part

1Concepts, CRDs

2Snapshot, delete, restore

3Scheduled protection, retention

4Replicating snapshots

5Day 2

The path

Five hands-on parts. Every command and every output comes from our lab, including the failures. Read them in order the first time; each part also stands alone as a runbook. The manifests are on GitHub: github.com/Fen0l/ndk-examples.

Not started Part 1 Sep 19 ·8 min

Concepts, CRDs and your first protected Application

How Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes models your workload: the CRDs, the StorageCluster link to Prism, and an Application CR built and verified on a live NKP 2.18 cluster.

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Not started Part 2 Sep 20 ·7 min

Snapshot, delete, restore, and what crash-consistent really means

A manual ApplicationSnapshot, a deleted PVC, and a 15-second restore on NKP 2.18, with a timestamped file that shows exactly which writes a crash-consistent snapshot keeps.

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Not started Part 3 Sep 21 ·7 min

Scheduled protection, retention, and what a healthy plan hides

JobScheduler, ProtectionPlan and AppProtectionPlan on NKP 2.18, a schedule that fires to the second, and 25 days of retention data that show why you should monitor snapshots, not plans.

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Not started Part 4 Sep 21 ·7 min

Replicating snapshots to a second NKP cluster and restoring there

Remote, ReplicationTarget and ApplicationSnapshotReplication between two NKP 2.18 clusters, a restore on the target with the same data, down to the second, and the gotchas we hit on the way.

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Not started Part 5 Sep 21 ·9 min

Day 2 with the UI, ndkcli, Prometheus and multi-namespace applications

Running NDK 2.3 day to day on NKP 2.18: what the UI roles really map to, where ndkcli helps, what the controller exposes to Prometheus (and what it does not), and the rules around applications that span namespaces.

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NDK in practice

The path

Concepts, CRDs and your first protected Application

Snapshot, delete, restore, and what crash-consistent really means

Scheduled protection, retention, and what a healthy plan hides

Replicating snapshots to a second NKP cluster and restoring there

Day 2 with the UI, ndkcli, Prometheus and multi-namespace applications

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