About backup and recovery

Red Hat recommends backing up deployments of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment to prevent data loss.

A backup resource of your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployment includes the following:

  • Custom deployment of specific values in the spec section of the Ansible Automation Platform custom resource object.
  • Back up of the postgresql database.
  • secret_key, admin_password, and broadcast_websocket secrets.
  • Database configuration.
Note

Be sure to secure your backup resources because they can include sensitive information.

Backup recommendations
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Recovering from data loss requires that you plan for and create backup resources of your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployments on a regular basis. At a minimum, Red Hat recommends backing up deployments of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform under the following circumstances:

  • Before upgrading your Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform deployments.
  • Before upgrading your OpenShift cluster.
  • Once per week. This is particularly important if your environment is configured for automatic upgrades.