Backup for GKE API

Name: Backup for GKE API API
Brand: Backup for GKE API
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecCloud InfrastructureContainer Orchestrationoauth220 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Create backup plans, trigger backups, and restore Kubernetes workloads in GKE clusters, including persistent volume data. Built for SRE and disaster-recovery automation.

Quickstart

Get started with Backup for GKE API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"create a gke backup"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Backup for GKE API API.

Create a backup plan that schedules cluster backups

List and inspect existing backup plans across regions

Trigger an on-demand backup of a GKE cluster

Browse volume backups produced by a cluster backup

Define a restore plan with namespace and resource selectors

GET STARTED

Start building with Backup for GKE API API

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Use for: Create a backup plan for a production GKE cluster, Trigger an on-demand backup before a risky deployment, List all backups for a backup plan in the last 7 days, Restore a namespace from yesterday's backup into a recovery cluster

Not supported: Does not back up VMs, Cloud SQL, or non-GKE workloads, and does not provision clusters — use the Container API to manage clusters and Backup and DR Service for non-Kubernetes assets.

Backup for GKE is a managed service that backs up and restores Kubernetes workloads running on Google Kubernetes Engine. The API manages backup plans, individual backups, restore plans, and restore operations, including selective restores of namespaces and resources. It captures both Kubernetes object state and persistent volume data so clusters can recover from accidental deletion, region outages, or operator errors.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Backup for GKE API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Scheduled Disaster Recovery for GKE

Platform teams running production GKE clusters need a managed backup that captures both Kubernetes objects and persistent volumes. The Backup for GKE API creates a backup plan with a cron schedule and retention policy, then automatically produces backups in cluster-specified regions. Operators can list backups and trigger ad-hoc captures before risky changes.

Call POST /v1/projects/{project}/locations/{location}/backupPlans with a cluster reference and a daily cron schedule, then verify the plan in GET on the same path.

Pre-Deployment Snapshots

Before applying a major change to a cluster, SREs trigger an on-demand backup so a known-good state exists if rollback is needed. The backups endpoint creates a backup tied to a backup plan, capturing both objects and PV data, and returns a long-running operation that can be polled to completion.

Call POST /v1/projects/{project}/locations/{location}/backupPlans/{backupPlan}/backups to create an on-demand backup and poll the operation until it completes.

Selective Restore After Operator Error

When a deployment accidentally deletes a namespace or modifies critical resources, operators need to restore only that namespace without overwriting unrelated workloads. The restore plan supports namespace and resource selectors, and a restore can be targeted at the original cluster or a different recovery cluster, minimising blast radius.

Call POST /v1/projects/{project}/locations/{location}/restorePlans with selectedNamespaces, then POST under that plan to start a restore from a specific backup.

Agent-Driven Backup Operations

An AI agent integrated with on-call tooling can trigger pre-deployment backups when a deployment is approved, then poll for completion before allowing the rollout. Through Jentic, the agent searches for the backup-create operation, loads its schema, and executes it without holding raw service account keys.

Use Jentic to search 'create a gke backup', load the backups create schema, and execute it before each production deploy in the rollout pipeline.

Key Endpoints

20 endpoints — backup for gke is a managed service that backs up and restores kubernetes workloads running on google kubernetes engine.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/v1/{+parent}/backupPlans

List backup plans in a location

POST

/v1/{+parent}/backupPlans

Create a backup plan

GET

/v1/{+parent}/backups

List backups for a plan

POST

/v1/{+parent}/backups

Create an on-demand backup

GET

/v1/{+parent}/restorePlans

List restore plans

POST

/v1/{+parent}/restorePlans

Create a restore plan

POST

/v1/{+parent}/restores

Start a restore from a backup

POST

/v1/{+name}:cancel

Cancel a long-running operation

GET

/v1/{+parent}/backupPlans

List backup plans in a location

POST

/v1/{+parent}/backupPlans

Create a backup plan

GET

/v1/{+parent}/backups

List backups for a plan

POST

/v1/{+parent}/backups

Create an on-demand backup

GET

/v1/{+parent}/restorePlans

List restore plans

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Service account credentials live encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive scoped OAuth tokens for the cloud-platform scope, never raw service account keys.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'create a gke backup' or 'restore a kubernetes namespace') and Jentic returns the matching backup or restore operation with the request schema.

Time to first call

Direct integration: 2-4 days for IAM, plan modelling, and operation polling. Through Jentic: under an hour for the per-operation calls.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

Kubernetes Engine API

Manages the GKE clusters that this API backs up.

Use Container API to provision and update clusters; Backup for GKE to protect their workloads.

Alternative

Backup and DR Service API

Broader backup service covering VMs, databases, and file shares.

Choose Backup and DR for non-Kubernetes workloads; Backup for GKE for cluster-aware Kubernetes backups.

Complementary

GKE Hub API

Registers and manages fleet membership for GKE clusters.

Pair with GKE Hub when backups are organised across a multi-cluster fleet.

Complementary

Compute Engine API

Provides the underlying disks that volume backups protect.

Use Compute Engine for VM and disk operations; Backup for GKE for workload-aware cluster backups.

FAQs

Specific to using Backup for GKE API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Backup for GKE API use?

It uses Google OAuth 2.0 with the cloud-platform scope, typically through a service account. Through Jentic, those credentials live encrypted in the vault and the agent receives scoped, short-lived bearer tokens.

Can I restore only a specific namespace with this API?

Yes. A RestorePlan supports selectedNamespaces and resource filters, and the resulting restore only applies the chosen namespaces or resources rather than the full cluster contents.

What are the rate limits for the Backup for GKE API?

Google enforces standard per-project quotas on management calls (typically several hundred requests per minute). The actual backup and restore operations are long-running and limited by cluster size and disk throughput rather than API rate.

How do I trigger a backup before a deployment through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'create a gke backup', load the schema for POST /v1/{parent}/backups, and execute it pointing at the backup plan, then poll the returned operation for completion.

Is the Backup for GKE API free?

The API itself has no surcharge, but storage of backup data and persistent volume snapshots is billed under Backup for GKE pricing. See the GKE pricing docs for current rates.

Does this API back up Kubernetes secrets and configmaps?

Yes, by default backups capture the full set of Kubernetes resources for the targeted namespaces, including configmaps and secrets, alongside persistent volume data. RestorePlan filters can exclude specific resource kinds when restoring.