OCI Full Stack DR is offering limited availability to fully automated recovery of OKE

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Full Stack Disaster Recovery (Full Stack DR) announces limited availability for Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). Join our limited availability program to try out this soon to be released feature of Full Stack DR in your own tenancy.

Full Stack DR is the 100% cloud native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) for OCI that ties many different recovery processes into a single, cohesive workflow that you can trigger with a single button click. Our new built-in feature makes it easy to add existing OKE clusters to Full Stack DR for fully automated end-to-end recovery orchestration of OKE between OCI regions. But you won’t see the new feature unless you join the limited availability program.

When your tenancy is allowlisted for this new feature, add existing OKE clusters from two OCI regions to Full Stack DR. You must add the resource type in both regions and provide a few properties to inform Full Stack DR how you want the recovery to behave. Then click a single button to generate complete DR plans, prepopulated with all the steps needed to recover OKE.

Orchestrate recovery for more than Kubernetes

The unique advantage that Full Stack DR has over other Kubernetes recovery solutions is that Full Stack DR orchestrates recovery for much more than Kubernetes alone. The resources hosted in OKE clusters are often only part of a complete business system or application stack.

Add any additional supported infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service (IaaS and PaaS) resources you need recovered along with OKE. Then generate a DR plan in a few minutes as shown in Figure 2 by clicking on the Create plan button. The image illustrates a simple example of a DR plan that orchestrates recovery for an entire application stack that can include other services along with OKE.

The example DR Plan above includes built-in recovery steps for block volumes, file systems, compute, and databases that are part of the same business system, but not part of the Kubernetes cluster in either region. The steps to manage backend sets for load balancers can include multiple backend sets across multiple load balancers.

The DR Plan also has user-defined steps with custom automation that stop and start Oracle or non-Oracle applications on the virtual machines (VMs) hosted in the OKE clusters and VMs that aren’t part of either OKE cluster. For example, your business system might include in-house applications, popular OCI services, such Oracle Analytics Cloud, OCI Integration, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, or any number of other services, and OCI Marketplace applications that are not part of your OKE clusters.

This all adds up to an OCI native disaster recovery service that goes beyond simple VM failover, integrating IaaS and PaaS services with almost anything else that must be recovered into a single seamless workflow.

Participate in our limited availability program

As a customer driven OCI service, we’re always looking to better understand the challenges that face business leaders and people who use our services every day. Our developers are interested in what Oracle customers think about the quality of our product and approach to solving your disaster recovery challenges. We’re looking for organizations in the process of building or already have a second OKE cluster deployed in a second OCI region to provide feedback.

You won’t see Oracle Kubernetes Engine as a resource type for Full Stack DR until your tenancy is allowlisted for this new feature enhancement on a trial basis for nonproduction workloads.

Ask your OCI account team today about participating in our limited availability program for OKE. We recommend working through your account team, but reach out to any one of the following product managers through LinkedIn if you’re not sure who to contact:

• Raphael Teixeira, principal product manager, EMEA & LAD
• Suraj Ramesh, principal product manager, APAC & EMEA
• Greg King, senior principal product manager, NA & LAD

Want to know more?

If you haven’t seen OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery in action yet, ask your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account team to set up a demonstration today. For more information, including documentation, pricing, tutorials, customer success stories, tutorials, and hands-on labs, visit Full Stack Disaster Recovery.