Introduction

Disaster recovery is the process of restoring a business’s IT infrastructure — including critical data, applications, and systems — after a catastrophic event to minimize downtime and resume normal operations. There is a common misconception that disaster recovery is just about database snapshot. In reality, it includes restoring application state, database, cache, traffic management, and infrastructure orchestration.

Today’s cloud-native environment, which consists of thousands of microservices, makes disaster recovery complex because it requires coordination across services, infrastructure, and dependencies. In large organizations, there are thousands of services to manage with varied technologies. Using a non-standard disaster recovery static script leads to inconsistent and error-prone disaster recovery execution.