A system for secure recovery of an application group in a container deployment environment is presented. The system includes a backup controller configured to access an application group token and generate a corresponding backup token. The system further includes a backup module configured to initiate a backup based on the backup token and create a corresponding recovery point on a backup server. The system further includes a recovery access token module configured to access a recovery access token for a determined recovery point. The system further includes a recovery controller configured to generate a recovery token corresponding to the determined recovery point based on the recovery access token, and a recovery module configured to initiate a recovery of the application group from the backup server in a destination cluster based on the recovery token. A related method is also presented.