Oracle’s Cloud Platform: Pilot Light - App & DB

Introduction

Objectives

• Enable application & database DR across regions on OCI
  • Automate block volume backups to new region
  • Setup DNS on OCI
  • Simulate disaster and subsequent recovery

Documentation

• Traffic Management on OCI
• Block Volume Backups
• Using Resource Manager

Lab100: Setup your Environment

• Use attached Terraform scripts to provision the environment
• Complete standby region load balancer setup in OCI console
• Configure DNS for primary region

Lab200: Configure Failover & Recovery Backups

• Configure DNS failover to DR region in traffic management
• Manually run attached Python scripts to take backups and move the backups from primary to DR region
  • Ability to run as cron job for production
• Restore a backup from the Primary region to compute in the DR region
• See how terraform will configure your backup automation, rsync, and Active Data Guard
  • Database DR is setup with data guard in the terraform scripts, but the subsequent lab will show the manual configuration of dataguard

Lab300: Simulate Disaster

• Drain connections in Primary load balancer
• Perform DNS failover to DR region
• Scale up compute node in DR region