Kubernetes has officially evolved from an application platform into the core operating system for enterprise infrastructure. With the rise of VMs on Kubernetes through projects like KubeVirt, SREs are now managing massive legacy virtual machines right alongside ephemeral containerised microservices and critical DevOps control planes like GitHub and Jira. When your entire engineering velocity depends on this unified stack, treating data protection as an afterthought or a manual checkbox is an operational hazard. This session outlines a modern strategy for data resilience, demonstrating how to treat your backup infrastructure entirely as code. We will walk through how to integrate immutable data protection policies directly into your declarative GitOps pipelines (ArgoCD). You will learn how to handle the massive data footprints of KubeVirt VMs, safeguard your vital DevOps tooling registries, and automate multi-cluster recovery workflows so that when disaster strikes, your state restores just as quickly as your code.
Michael Cade is a seasoned technology executive with over 20 years of experience in the data protection space. He is currently serving as the Global Field CTO for a leading cloud-native and open-source data protection company. Exploring the world of Cloud-Native and OSS software and raising awareness that there is still very much a requirement to protect data and workloads within these platforms. Prior to this role, Michael held various technical roles within Veeam joining in 2013 as a Systems Engineer and then moving to the product strategy team to focus on the wider Veeam strategy of creating content and sharing within the community. A big focus for Michael has been based on 3 things, Raising Awareness, Driving Adoption and showing the Art of the possible.
