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What is your plan when one of the machines needs to be taken offline for repairs? The probability is low, but the downside may be large.
by nine_k 5mo ago
What is your plan when one of the machines needs to be taken offline for repairs? The probability is low, but the downside may be large.
- throawayonthe 5mo agohave three of them
- nullpoint420 5mo agoHaha exactly - or 4 if we’re balling
- tardedmeme 5mo agoHow would you do that on AWS? They can shut down your VM due to hardware failures on the host. The probability is low, but the impact may be large.
- nine_k 5mo ago(1) They will usually notify a few minutes (or hours) in advance, and (2) it would take a few minutes to spin up and set up a new VM to replace the old, without leaving your terminal.
- nullpoint420 5mo agoTake it down and replace it? Obviously I’d have HA setup between my nodes, with CSI replication. If budget allowed, I’d even spin up another region with DB failover setup too. All the same architecture applies, the only difference is it’s done with K8S yaml instead of the CDK