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AppBinding

What is AppBinding

An AppBinding is a Kubernetes CustomResourceDefinition(CRD) which points to an application using either its URL (usually for a non-Kubernetes resident service instance) or a Kubernetes service object (if self-hosted in a Kubernetes cluster), some optional parameters and a credential secret. To learn more about AppBinding and the problems it solves, please read this blog post: The case for AppBinding.

If you deploy a database using KubeDB, AppBinding object will be created automatically for it. Otherwise, you have to create an AppBinding object manually pointing to your desired database.

KubeDB uses Stash to perform backup/recovery of databases. Stash needs to know how to connect with a target database and the credentials necessary to access it. This is done via an AppBinding.