IssProtect For DevOps
Ultimate Data Defence for Kubernetes & CI/CD
Secure your clusters and repos with seamless backups.
IssProtect for DevOps, is a backup solution built for Kubernetes platforms. Protecting the entire data application on the developers and DevOps teams terms, safeguarding your data whether it's inside a container, a database, or in external cloud services like GitHub, AWS RDS, or S3.
✓ Comprehensive Kubernetes Data Protection
✓ Rapid, Application-Centric Recovery
✓ Operational Resilience for DevOps
✓ Platform and Cloud Mobility
What is included in our service?
We ensure complete protection of your DevOps chain, from the source code in Git to the live containers in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Our solution securely saves your data in an S3 solution or within IssProtect For DevOps, where it can be scanned for ransomware and deduplicated.
Our solution also enables seamless cloud infrastructure backup, allowing you to easily restore from one Kubernetes provider to another, even across different clouds. You can effortlessly migrate between Kubernetes-native environments and OpenShift infrastructure, or vice versa.
Value for Your Business.
We've applied our decades of expertise to the modern container world to ensure your entire DevOps environment is fully protected, not just parts of it. With our solution, you can confidently safeguard everything from your Git repositories and CI/CD pipelines to your Kubernetes containers.
Plus, we guarantee compliance with NIS2 and DORA regulations, giving you peace of mind that your infrastructure meets the highest security standards. Trust us to protect your data so you can focus on driving your business forward.
5 situations where IssProtect For DevOps proves valuable for DevOps teams.
Scenario 1:
Modern Backup for Kubernetes Platforms
The solution is installed within the customer’s Kubernetes platform and is used to create backups of the customer’s Kubernetes solutions and applications. IssProtect for DevOps enables separation of backups per application, allowing for the backup of Git repositories, Kubernetes applications, and underlying databases.
Developers can define their own retention requirements based on pre-configured rules that you have already established, simply by tagging their project. This automatically triggers a copy of their project without the need to contact anyone from the DevOps or Infrastructure teams.
This approach offers several advantages, including:
Copies of data stored in Git, mitigating the risk of, for example, hacker attacks or accidental loss of critical deployment information.
Faster restoration of containers within the environment after a major failure, compared to rebuilding everything as Infrastructure as Code.
The entire solution is installed within your Kubernetes environment, no external software or traditional backup servers are required.
Backups can be taken as frequently as needed, with multiple data copies and rapid recovery capabilities.
Backup data can be stored at alternative locations to meet regulatory requirements such as NIS2, DORA, and the AI Act.
Full API support, enabling integration and automation within existing CI/CD pipelines.
Scenario 2:
Environment Restoration for Migration or Test/Development
The solution is installed within the customer’s Kubernetes platform and used to back up Kubernetes solutions and applications, with the added capability of utilising the data stored in S3 for various use cases.
Key advantages include:
Restoring backups to another hyperscaler or on-premises cluster to enable migration between platforms (e.g. from AWS to Google Cloud).
Restoring databases from the environment, and optionally adding scripts during restoration to de-anonymise or anonymise data, for instance, removing personal data in line with GDPR compliance for banking environments.
Easily testing AI solutions across two different cloud providers, enabling temporary environments for comparative model testing on historical data, such as analysing sales data to determine optimal AI models before deletion of the test setup.
Making CI/CD tests more realistic by restoring a full copy of the production environment, ensuring comprehensive testing with accurate data volumes before deploying a new application version.
Scenario 3:
Environment Restoration for Ransomware or Compliance Testing (DORA / NIS2)
The solution is installed within the customer’s Kubernetes platform and used to back up Kubernetes solutions and applications, with the flexibility to use the S3-stored data for multiple purposes.
Main advantages include:
Creating a full backup of the Kubernetes environment and storing a functional version of the entire setup in S3, either in a secure cloud environment or on-premises, to comply with legal requirements such as DORA or NIS2.
Performing recovery tests in a sandbox environment to verify that all systems function correctly.
Running ransomware scans or penetration tests on the restored environment without impacting production.
Scanning all code and dependencies to identify potential security vulnerabilities under real runtime conditions.
Scenario 4:
Environment Restoration for Upgrade Testing (Test / Development)
Main advantages include:
Creating a backup of an application and restoring it to a sandbox environment for safe and isolated testing of new features without affecting production performance or stability.
Conducting load tests to analyse system behaviour under high stress.
Restoring specific parts of the environment for targeted validation or testing purposes.
Scenario 5:
Enhanced Customer Offering: Faster Response and Reduced Risk
Key advantages include:
Taking a full environment backup as an additional layer of protection beyond Infrastructure as Code. This enables you to offer customers an extra safety layer in case of disaster, or for sandbox testing. The data can be stored with an alternative hyperscaler or in a Swedish data centre (e.g. Safespring), providing enhanced protection against cyberattacks.
Monetising a service that provides customers with an additional safety net, used only when required but offering significant value in case of incidents.
In the event of a cyberattack or malfunction (e.g. broken deployment scripts), the environment can be quickly restored to a stable state and brought online rapidly, minimising downtime. Frequent backups can ensure minimal data loss between the latest versions, including continuous database backups.
Enabling sandbox environments for testing patches, new versions, or security updates.
Maintaining readily restorable data for faster operational recovery.
Ensuring access to untouched versions of the environment after ransomware or other attacks, allowing restoration to the most recent uncorrupted state, even if the Git-based source data has been compromised.
Generating additional revenue with minimal operational changes, by offering the backup solution as a premium or “Gold” service tier.
Easy to implement and demonstrate via a Proof of Concept (PoC) directly in the customer’s environment, operational within a few hours.
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