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From YouTube: Disaster Recovery for your Kubernetes Clusters [I] - Andy Goldstein & Steve Kriss, Heptio

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Disaster Recovery for your Kubernetes Clusters [I] - Andy Goldstein & Steve Kriss, Heptio

It’s 3am. Your pager is beeping. Your Kubernetes cluster is down. Don’t panic - we’ve got you covered. In this talk, we’ll describe a variety of disaster scenarios you may encounter. We’ll arm you with the knowledge you need to overcome them. Whether you’re a systems administrator, application developer, or end user, after this talk you’ll walk away with a thorough understanding of Kubernetes disaster recovery, including:

A disaster recovery overview
- Strategies for Kubernetes
- Comparisons to federation and high availability
- Which components to back up vs recreating from scratch

How to minimize your time to recovery
- Automate cluster creation and infrastructure configuration
- Back up and quickly restore your cluster applications, workloads, and persistent volumes using tools such as Heptio Ark

How to handle specific disaster scenarios
- Losing nodes
- Recovering from bad configuration updates
- Cloud provider outages

About Andy Goldstein
Andy Goldstein is an engineer at Heptio where he works on tooling to make operating Kubernetes clusters easier, and he also contributes to Kubernetes. Prior to his current role, Andy worked on Kubernetes and OpenShift at Red Hat. Andy lives in Rockville, MD, with his wife, two children, and two noisy cats.

About Steve Kriss
Steve Kriss is a systems engineer at Heptio working on building tools and products to help Kubernetes users be successful, and has been a contributor to upstream Kubernetes as well as a member of the Kubernetes release team in the past. Steve recently relocated to Seattle from New York and is still trying to find a good bagel.
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