Disaster Recovery Automation
A tool to programmatically replicate and failover infrastructure to a secondary region.
Overview
This tool uses the Pulumi Automation API to codify and automate an organization's disaster recovery plan. It consists of a program that can be triggered in an emergency. This program would target a secondary (DR) region and use the Automation API to run a series of Pulumi stacks in a specific order. It would provision networking, replicate databases (or promote read replicas), deploy application services, and reroute traffic. By codifying the entire DR process, the tool ensures a fast, repeatable, and less error-prone recovery compared to manual procedures.
✨ Key Features
- Codifies disaster recovery plans in a programming language.
- Automates infrastructure provisioning in a secondary region.
- Orchestrates the failover process across multiple stacks.
- Can be triggered programmatically or manually in an emergency.
- Reduces Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Cloud-agnostic, can be written to work across multiple clouds.
- Highly customizable to an organization's specific application architecture and recovery procedures.
- Uses a single, unified codebase for both primary and DR infrastructure definitions.
Unique Value: Transforms a manual, high-stress disaster recovery process into a reliable, fast, and repeatable automated workflow, significantly improving business continuity.
🎯 Use Cases (3)
✅ Best For
- This is a common advanced use case for programmatic infrastructure tools. The ability of the Automation API to orchestrate multiple stacks and integrate with other systems makes it well-suited for this task.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Applications that do not have high-availability requirements.
- Organizations that rely solely on their cloud provider's built-in, managed DR solutions.
🏆 Alternatives
Compared to manual runbooks, it is orders of magnitude faster and less prone to human error. Unlike some provider-specific tools, it offers the flexibility to manage the recovery of the entire application stack, including cross-cloud dependencies, using a single, consistent programming model.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
💰 Pricing
Free tier: This is a custom-built tool. Costs are based on the replicated infrastructure in the DR region (which may be kept on standby or provisioned on-demand).
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