Disaster Recovery Working Group

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• Attributes
  • Charter
  • Scope and Definitions
  • Sequence Order Of Deliverables
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Related Links

Attributes

Charter

This working group will determine what is needed to leverage GitLab Geo as a mechanism for building reliable and predictable disaster recovery into GitLab.com production.

Scope and Definitions

In the context of this working group,

1. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) : targeted duration of time in which data might be lost due to a major incident.
2. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) : targeted 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.

Sequence Order Of Deliverables

1. Plan and execute a test of a staging failover leveraging GitLab Geo by 2020-11-30 with minimal disruption to the existing deployment and testing processes
2. An evaluation of that failover in the form of a gap analysis of what would be needed to provide the necessary failover functionality for GitLab.com production
3. Roadmap of how and when gaps identified will be addressed
4. Successive Geo failover in Staging which result in a successful full failover of Staging
5. A design of how GitLab Geo would be used in production in the form of a blueprint and readiness review

Roles and Responsibilities

Related Links

• Disaster Recovery at GitLab
• GitLab.com Disaster Recovery Proposal