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Automating Disaster Recovery: The Ultimate Reliability Challenge

Talkat SREcon24 Americas · 2024-03-18..03-20· [devops-and-delivery]
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Claims day Zero reliability is required and shows a pragmatic patch: Cisco automates cross‑region recovery for 215 services by shipping a standby data copy, scripting promotion steps into YAML failover recipes and running them on a platform framework built by platform engineers for developers, leveraging Kubernetes primitives like rollbacks, scaling and draining. Result is a repeatable five minute cross-region failover in practice, acknowledged as effective but imperfect and born from retrofitting rather than redesign.

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  1. 0:00Automating system recovery
  2. 5:22Reliability not an afterthought
  3. 10:02Ultimate reliability challenge
  4. 13:55Generic mitigations
  5. 17:50Moving workloads between regions
  6. 20:17Patchwork disaster recovery solution
  7. 23:27Reliability as day-zero concern
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