Author: Scott Creeley

Managing application consistency and state during Disaster Recovery for Ceph RBD mirroring

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Scott Creeley, Red Hat

Ryan Cook, Red Hat

Erin Boyd

This is the third post in our series investigating how Rook-Ceph and RBD Mirroring can be best utilized to handle Disaster Recovery scenarios. The first post in the series, “Managing application and data portability at scale with Rook-Ceph,” laid some foundational groundwork for how Rook-Ceph and RBD mirroring can enable application portability. Then in our second post, “Managing Disaster Recovery with GitOps and Ceph RBD Mirroring,” we talked about some key features of Rook-Ceph RBD mirroring and presented a solution to help manage and automate failover using a GitOps model.

In this post we explore some additional tools and concepts to help with the synchronization of application consistency and state across multiple clusters, reducing the manual steps and providing an automated approach for recoverability and maintainability of the application on failover.

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Managing disaster recovery with GitOps and Ceph RBD mirroring

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Scott Creeley, Red Hat

Erin Boyd

Ryan Cook, Red Hat

In our previous blog, Managing application and data portability at scale with Rook-Ceph, we talked about some key features of Rook-Ceph mirroring and laid groundwork for future use case solutions and automation that could be enabled from this technology. This post describes recovering from a complete physical site failure using Ceph RBD mirroring for data consistency coupled with a GitOps model for managing our cluster and application configurations along with an external load balancer all working together to greatly minimize application downtime.

This is done by enabling a Disaster Recovery (DR) scenario where the primary site can failover to the secondary site with minimal impact on Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).

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Managing application and data portability at scale with Rook-Ceph

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Scott Creeley, Red Hat

One of the key requirements for Kubernetes in multi-cluster environments is the ability to migrate an application with all of its dependencies and resources from one cluster to another cluster. Application portability gives application owners and administrators the ability to better manage applications for common needs such as scaling out applications, high availability for applications, or just simply backing up applications for disaster recovery. This post is going to present one solution for enabling storage and data mobility in multicluster/hybrid cloud environments using Ceph and Rook.

Containerization and Container Native Storage has made it easier for developers to run applications and get the storage they need, but as this space evolves and matures it is becoming increasingly important to move your application and data around, from cluster to cluster and cloud to cloud.

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