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Learn Velero - Prerequisite Skills & Environment Setup
Before you touch a `velero backup create` command, you need to master kubectl and cluster access, understand Kubernetes resources like Deployment and PVC, and grasp S3-compatible object storage concepts. In this episode you prepare a cluster, install the velero CLI 1.18, provide a MinIO/S3 backend, and verify the environment is ready.
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Learn Velero - History, Background & Why You Need It
This episode reviews Velero's origins from Heptio to its status as a CNCF project, along with its design philosophy. You also understand why Velero is needed: API resource + volume backup, selective restore, cross-cluster migration, scheduling, and disaster recovery without vendor lock-in.
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Learn Velero - Core Concepts & Main Architecture
This episode dissects the Velero architecture: the velero server as a deployment in the cluster, the velero CLI as the client, and the roles of the BackupStorageLocation (BSL) and VolumeSnapshotLocation (VSL) CRDs. You also get to know all the core components, from the velero namespace and the Backup/Restore/Schedule CRDs to object store plugins and the node-agent.
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Learn Velero - Installation & BSL Configuration
This episode guides you through installing Velero 1.18 into a cluster, both via `velero install` and the vmware-tanzu/velero Helm chart. You also configure the BackupStorageLocation (object store) and the VolumeSnapshotLocation (cloud snapshot), including MinIO options with s3ForcePathStyle and insecure skip TLS.
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Learn Velero - Your First Backup
This episode guides you through your first backup with `velero backup create`, reading backup details via `velero backup describe`, and understanding what a backup contains: resource manifests plus volume data. You also learn to control the backup scope with `--include-resources` and `--exclude-resources`.
August 13, 2026
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Learn Velero - Restore & Selective Restore
A backup without restore is just data storage. This episode teaches full restore from a backup, restoring into a different namespace via `--namespace-mappings`, and selective restore with `--include-resources`, `--include-namespaces`, and `--selector`.
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Learn Velero - Scheduling & Retention
Manual backups aren't enough for production. This episode covers `velero schedule create` with cron expressions, setting `--ttl` for auto-expiry, the fundamental differences between a schedule and a manual backup, and retention strategies that match your RPO needs.
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Learn Velero - Labels, Selectors & Annotations
This episode covers granular backup control: selecting resources via label selector, marking resources that must always be included/excluded with the velero.io annotation, configuring `--snapshot-volumes`, and introducing pre and post hooks for backup.
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Learn Velero - Volume Backup: Cloud Snapshot vs Restic/Kopia
This episode compares Velero's two volume backup mechanisms: cloud snapshots (block-level via EBS/GCP PD, fast, needs a VSL) and file-level backup via the node-agent with restic/kopia (portable, works with S3 without cloud snapshots, suitable for non-cloud volumes and NFS).
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Learn Velero - Backup Hooks: Pre/Post (Ensuring Consistency)
An inconsistent volume backup is a ticking time bomb. This episode covers pre/post backup hooks in Velero: running commands before and after a backup (e.g. pg_dump, DB flush), configuration via annotations, timeouts and on-error, and a PostgreSQL and stateful application case study so data is recovered intact.
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