Dockfield Practice · DR-as-Code mini demo
AWS recovery.
See it in action.
From a running landscape in N. Virginia to a recovered application in London. Follow the Terraform export, deployment and browser checks across two AWS accounts, with narration explaining each stage and close-ups of the key actions.
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- STAGE 0100:20 Confirm the primaryCheck the primary ALB and the nginx page in N. Virginia (us-east-1).
- STAGE 0201:31 Export the landscapeReverse engineer the primary landscape into a Terraform snapshot and confirm it in the secondary account’s S3 bucket.
- STAGE 0303:19 Recover in the secondaryLaunch recovery in London (eu-west-2), inspect the EKS cluster and confirm that the build succeeds.
- STAGE 0404:50 Verify the applicationRetrieve the secondary ALB DNS name and confirm nginx in the browser, with the secondary account and region displayed.
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- 00:00 · Welcome & overview
Dockfield Practice introduces recovery across AWS accounts and regions, with resilience, isolation and repeatable rebuilding as the objectives.
- 00:20 · Confirm the primary
Check the primary ALB and the nginx page in N. Virginia (us-east-1).
- 01:31 · Export the landscape
Reverse engineer the primary landscape into a Terraform snapshot and confirm it in the secondary account’s S3 bucket.
- 03:19 · Recover in the secondary
Launch recovery in London (eu-west-2), inspect the EKS cluster and confirm that the build succeeds.
- 04:50 · Verify the application
Retrieve the secondary ALB DNS name and confirm nginx in the browser, with the secondary account and region displayed.
- 06:32 · Demo scope
For simplicity, ARC ON/OFF routing controls, snapshot quarantine checks and database point-in-time recovery are outside this mini demo.
- 07:20 · Closing message
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