
Easy Geo-redundant Failover with MARS and systemd (froscon2019)
Howto Survive Serious Disasters
Chaos Computer Club - archive feed · Thomas Schöbel-Theuer
August 10, 20191h 1m
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Show Notes
The talk describes a simple setup of long-distance replication with minimum effort. The new systemd interface of MARS will drastically reduce your effort to make your existing complex solution geo-redundant.
Geo-redundancy / mass data replication over long distances is now much easier to manage for sysadmins. Although systemd has some shortcomings and earns some criticism, it can ease your automation of handover / failover when combined with the new unit-file template generator from the long-distance data replication component MARS. It is very flexible, supporting arbitrary application stacks, virtual machiines, containers, and much more.
MARS is used by 1&1 IONOS for geo-redundancy of thousands of LXC containers, and on several petabytes of data, with very low cost.
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Topics
froscon20192452System Administration