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Date Restarted August 1, 2022
Date Created November 11, 2020
End Date TBD
Slack #wg_disaster-recovery (only accessible from within the company)
Google Doc Working Group Agenda (only accessible from within the company)
Issue Board Working Group Issue Board
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Charter

The Disaster Recovery Working Group will determine the work needed to improve the disaster recovery mechanism for GitLab SaaS Products, and the effort is necessary to build a reliable and predictable disaster recovery at the largest scale, leveraging existing tools.

Scope and Definitions

In the context of this working group:

  1. Recovery Point Objective (RPO): target duration of time in which data might be lost due to a major incident.
  2. Recovery Time Objective (RTO): target duration of time and service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster to avoid unacceptable consequences of a break in business continuity.

This working group is working towards the proposed targets for both RPO and RTO.

Sequence Order Of Deliverables

Planned:

  1. Create and update a single handbook page, and deprecate resources in other locations. DRI: Fabian Zimmer
  2. Define and clarify the FY24 recovery goals DRI: Steve Loyd
  3. Complete an assessment of zonal outage and identify next step iterations towards 4 hour recovery goal (Epic: gitlab.com&1900). DRI: John Jarvis
  4. Define the strategy to deliver a short-term DR solution for GitLab.com and incorporate work into the Reliability Cross-Functional Initiative DRI: Steve Loyd
  5. Define a medium to long term strategy for DR capabilities for GitLab Dedicated and Pods via Geo. DRI: Sampath Ranasinghe

Roles and Responsibilities

Working Group Role Person Title
Executive Stakeholder Steve Loyd VP of Infrastructure
Facilitator/DRI Gerardo Lopez-Fernandez Engineering Fellow, Infrastructure
Functional Lead Fabian Zimmer Group Product Manager, Enablement
Member Chun Du Director of Engineering, Enablement
Development DRI Juan Silva Fullstack Engineering Manager, Geo
Product Management DRI Sampath Ranasinghe Senior Product Manager, Geo
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