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Kubernetes Control-Plane DR

Surviving A Complete ETCD Outage, Part 1: Snapshots, And Getting Them Back When the Cluster Is Gone
Part 1: Notes on taking frequent ETCD snapshots, and setting up an automated workflow to getting one back when the control plane is down and kubectl returns nothing but errors.
Jul 3, 20266 min read5
Surviving A Complete ETCD Outage, Part 2: Restoration
In Part 1 we got a verified ETCD snapshot back onto an Ansible control host, even with the cluster fully down. I've come across many a blog posts describing ETCD restoration process on a single node,
Jul 3, 202610 min read

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