Summary

Bitnami’s licensing and support changes have made its once-free Helm charts unsustainable for open-source projects. In response, Drubernetes, the Terraform module for running Drupal on Kubernetes, has replaced Bitnami’s MariaDB chart with the official MariaDB operator in its 2.0.0 release to ensure continued open-source compatibility, security, and portability. This release requires a few migration steps, including backing up your current Drupal database (DB), …

Background

Our customer dashboard, which will soon be used for managing subscriptions to our backup service (and not just newsletters and our contact form, as we’re doing now), is built on the Drupal data management framework. Until now, we’ve been hosting it with a company that specializes in hosting very specific types of applications, like Drupal. This wasn’t working for us because our service is running in our Kubernetes cluster at a cloud service …

Hello everyone,

I am thrilled to announce that development on BackUpScale has resumed in earnest after a couple of years of being on hold. This marks the first blog post on backupscale.com, and I couldn’t be more excited to share the progress and plans with all of you.

The Journey So Far

BackUpScale started as a prototype a couple of years ago. The initial goal was to create an end-to-end secure backup solution with Restic at the core and append-only backups for …