This project implements a cross-cloud disaster recovery architecture for a Disaster Recovery Management Application that protects application data and services across multiple cloud environments. It performs data backup, replication, recovery, health monitoring, and failover to maintain application availability during cloud or infrastructure failures.
To design and implement a cross-cloud disaster recovery platform that provides reliable backup, data replication, failover, and recovery for distributed application workloads.
The administrator registers applications and their recovery configurations.
Application details, recovery requirements, backup schedules, and target cloud environments are configured.
Application data is periodically backed up to the disaster recovery environment.
Restic creates encrypted backups and transfers application data to configured cloud storage.
Critical application data is replicated between cloud environments.
Bucardo replicates PostgreSQL data between primary and recovery databases.
The application continuously monitors the health of primary and recovery environments.
Prometheus collects infrastructure and application metrics, while Grafana displays recovery and availability dashboards.
The system detects failures in the primary application environment.
Monitoring metrics are evaluated against defined thresholds to identify service or infrastructure failures.
Application workloads are switched from the failed environment to the recovery environment.
Ansible automates recovery-server configuration, service startup, and application failover procedures.
The administrator verifies that applications and data are successfully recovered.
Application availability, database consistency, and recovery status are validated after failover.
Provides compute resources for running the disaster recovery application and recovery workloads.
Stores application backups and recovery data.
Provides the secure network environment for primary and recovery workloads.
Provides persistent block storage for application and database workloads.
Manages access permissions for cloud resources.
Controls network traffic and protects cloud resources.
Stores application configuration, recovery policies, and disaster-recovery records.
Replicates PostgreSQL data between primary and recovery environments.
Creates encrypted backups and transfers application data to cloud storage.
Collects application and infrastructure health metrics.
Provides dashboards for recovery status, availability, and system health.
Automates recovery infrastructure configuration and failover operations.
Packages application and recovery services into containers.
Deploys and manages containerized application workloads in cloud environments.
The proposed solution provides a cross-cloud disaster recovery platform for distributed applications. Restic manages encrypted backups, while Bucardo replicates PostgreSQL data between environments. Prometheus and Grafana monitor application and infrastructure health, and Ansible automates failover and recovery operations. Docker and Kubernetes manage application workloads, while cloud infrastructure provides compute, storage, networking, and security.
Research Breakthrough Possible @S-Logix