Cover your bare (metal) ass with Velero Backups
While I've been a little distracted in the last few months assembling ElfHosted, the platform is now at a level of maturity which no longer requires huge amounts of my time1. I've started "back-porting" learnings from building an open-source, public, multi-tenanted platform back into the cookbook.
What is ElfHosted? 
ElfHosted is "self-hosting as a service" (SHAAS? ) - Using our Kubernetes / GitOps designs, we've build infrastructure and automation to run popular self-hosted apps (think "Plex, Radarr, Mattermost..") and attach your own cloud storage ("bring-your-own-storage").
You get $10 free credit when you sign up, so you can play around without commitment!
We're building "in public", so follow the progress in the open-source repos, the blog or in Discord.
TL;DR? Here's a guide to getting started, and another to migrating from another provider.
The first of our imported improvements covers how to ensure that you have a trusted backup of the config and state in your cluster. Using Velero, rook-ceph, and CSI snapshots, I'm able to snapshot TBs of user data in ElfHosted for the dreaded "incase-I-screw-it-up" disaster scenario.
Check out the Velero recipe for a detailed guide re applying the same to your cluster!
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