Define an application using a custom resource

Define the bucket

Protect an entire cluster

Back up your application

Create a snapshot

Create schedules for snapshots or backups

Restore an application from a snapshot or backup

Backup and restore capabilities for applications with ontap-nas-economy driver-backed storage backends: Enable backup and restore operations for ontap-nas-economy with some simple steps.

Astra Control Service support for on-premises Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters

Immutable Backups: Astra Control now supports unalterable, read-only backups as an additional security layer against malware and other threats.

Introducing Astra Control Provisioner

Astra Control Service support for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters

Support for managing applications that use NVMe/TCP storage
Astra Control can now manage applications backed by persistent volumes that are connected using NVMe/TCP.

Execution hooks turned off by default: Beginning with this release, execution hooks functionality can be enabled or disabled for additional security (it is disabled by default). If you have not yet created execution hooks for use with Astra Control, you need to enable the execution hooks feature to begin creating hooks. If you created execution hooks prior to this release, the execution hooks functionality stays enabled and you can use hooks as you would normally.

Clone operations now support live clones only (current state of managed application). To clone from a snapshot or backup, use the restore workflow.

Azure Marketplace subscriptions are now billed per hour instead of per minute

Support for private Amazon EKS clusters

Support for selecting the destination storage class during restore or clone operations

Support for private Red Hat OpenShift clusters

Support for including or excluding application resources during restore operations

Support for managing data-only applications

Enhanced execution hooks functionality with additional filtering options

Support for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP as a storage backend

Support for applications that span across multiple namespaces

Support for including cluster resources in an application definition

Enhanced progress reporting for your backup, restore, and clone operations

Support for managing clusters that already have a compatible version of Astra Trident installed

Support for managing multiple cloud provider subscriptions in a single Astra Control Service account

Support for adding self-managed Kubernetes clusters that are hosted in public cloud environments to Astra Control Service

Billing for Astra Control Service is now metered per namespace instead of per application

Support for subscribing to Astra Control Service term-based offers through the AWS Marketplace

Known issues for this release

Known limitations for this release

Improved application management workflow
Improved application management workflows provide increased flexibility when defining applications managed by Astra Control.

Support for Amazon Web Services clusters
Astra Control Service can now manage apps that are running on clusters hosted in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. You can configure the clusters to use Amazon Elastic Block Store or Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as the storage backend.

Enhanced execution hooks
In addition to pre- and post-snapshot execution hooks, you can now configure the following types of execution hooks:

Azure Marketplace support
You can now sign up to Astra Control Service via Azure Marketplace.

Cloud provider selection
While reading the Astra Control Service documentation, you can now select your cloud provider at the top right of the page. You will see documentation relevant only to the cloud provider you select.

Namespace role-based access control (RBAC)
Astra Control Service now supports assigning namespace constraints to Member or Viewer users.

Azure Active Directory support
Astra Control Service supports AKS clusters that use Azure Active Directory for authentication and identity management.

Support for private AKS clusters
You can now manage AKS clusters that use private IP addresses.

Bucket removal from Astra Control
You can now remove a bucket from Astra Control Service.

New storage backend options

Set up Google Cloud

Set up Microsoft Azure with Azure managed disks

Astra Control Center
Astra Control is now available in a new deployment model. Astra Control Center is self-managed software that you install and operate in your data center so that you can manage Kubernetes application lifecycle management for on-premises Kubernetes clusters.

Bring your own bucket
You can now manage the buckets that Astra uses for backups and clones by adding additional buckets and by changing the default bucket for the Kubernetes clusters in your cloud provider.

Support for shared VPCs
You can now manage GKE clusters in GCP projects with a shared VPC network configuration.

Persistent volume size for the CVS service type
Astra Control Service now creates persistent volumes with a minimum size of 300 GiB when using the CVS service type.

Support for Container-Optimized OS
Container-Optimized OS is now supported with GKE worker nodes. This is in addition to support for Ubuntu.

Support for AKS clusters
Astra Control Service can now manage apps that are running on a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

REST API
The Astra Control REST API is now available for use. The API is based on modern technologies and current best practices.

Annual subscription
Astra Control Service now offers a Premium Subscription.

Namespace and app visualization
We enhanced the Discovered Apps page to better show the hierarchy between namespaces and apps. Just expand a namespace to see the apps contained in that namespace.

User interface enhancements
Data protection wizards were enhanced for ease of use. For example, we refined the Protection Policy wizard to more easily view the protection schedule as you define it.

Activity enhancements
We've made it easier to view details about the activities in your Astra Control account.

Billing is now available, which enables you to move from the Free Plan to the Premium Plan. Learn more about billing.

Astra Control Service now creates Persistent Volumes with a minimum size of 100 GiB when using the CVS-Performance service type.

Astra Control Service can now discover apps faster.

You can now create and delete accounts on your own.

We've improved notifications when Astra Control Service can no longer access a Kubernetes cluster.

When you add your first Kubernetes compute to Astra Control Service, the object store is now created in the geography where the cluster resides.

Details about persistent volumes is now available when you view storage details at the compute level.

We added an option to restore an application from an existing snapshot or backup.

If you delete a Kubernetes cluster that Astra Control Service is managing, the cluster now shows up in a Removed state. You can then remove the cluster from Astra Control Service.

Account owners can now modify the assigned roles for other users.

We added a section for billing, which will be enabled when Astra Control Service is released for General Availability (GA).