Does your DevOps strategy stand incomplete because of data protection challenges? Traditional methods often fall short in safeguarding stateful applications, particularly in DevOps and Kubernetes environments. This presentation offers a new lens to view this challenge, proposing a transformative approach where data protection becomes an integral component of the DevOps life cycle. Central to this approach is a cloud-native data management layer that efficiently streamlines data backup, recovery, and migration. We'll segue from this into the finer details of strategies ensuring backup consistency. Embark with us on this journey to reimagine data protection, enhancing the resilience of your data and supercharging the efficiency of your DevOps processes.