July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
502 pages
14h
English
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes
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Systemic failures
Sometimes, systemic failures take place. Some of these are as follows:
- Total networking failure (entire cluster is unreachable)
- Data center outage
- Availability zone outage
- Region outage
- Cloud provider outage
In these situations, you may not have redundancy by design (the cost-benefit ratio is not economical). The system will be down. Users will experience an outage. The important thing is not to lose or corrupt any data and be able to come back online as soon as the root cause is addressed. However, if it is important for your organization to stay online at all costs, Kubernetes will have options for you. The operative word is will, as in the future. The work on this is conducted under a project called federation v2, (v1 ...