# Configuration for Kubernetes Application Groups

An application group is a set of data that you want to protect. For Kubernetes, the data is the Kubernetes applications, namespaces, namespaced objects, non-namespaced objects, and persistent volume data that you want to protect.

When you add a cluster that you want to protect to Commvault, that process includes creating the first application group for the cluster. The first application group that you create for a cluster is the default application group, regardless of what the application group is named.

After you add a cluster and create the default application group, you can create additional application groups for objects/resources in the cluster that have different backup requirements. Additional application groups can be either of the following:

- Full cluster

- Custom

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