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Google PCA Practice Question: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
A company runs a critical application on GKE with etcd for configuration storage. They want to back up etcd data for disaster recovery. Which tool should they use?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Velero
Velero (formerly Heptio Ark) is an open-source tool for backing up and restoring Kubernetes resources, including etcd snapshots. gcloud container clusters describe does not back up, Backup for GKE is a managed service but not specifically for etcd, and etcdctl is a command-line tool for etcd but is not typically used for automated backups in GKE.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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gcloud container clusters describe
Why it's wrong here
This command describes a cluster; it does not create backups.
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Backup for GKE
Why it's wrong here
Backup for GKE is a managed backup service for GKE but it backs up workloads and persistent volumes, not etcd directly.
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etcdctl
Why it's wrong here
etcdctl can take snapshots but is not integrated with GKE backup workflows; Velero is the recommended approach.
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Velero
Why this is correct
Velero is the standard tool for backing up Kubernetes clusters, including etcd snapshots.
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