Select a region for the regional recovery "bulkhead"
As discussed in the DR blueprint we will want to select a suitable region to start building out infrastructure that will be used in the unlikely scenario of a regional outage or recovery.
We should take the following into account:
- capacity (ensuring that compute capacity can handle a full Gitaly recovery)
- latency (we may want to have warm db replica(s) in this region, but we will also want to minimize replication lag)
- isolation
Tasks
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Take a full inventory of compute resources required for production -
Open up a support ticket with GCP to discuss recommendations for region selection -
Finalize region selection with the working group
Note: The work here maps to key result https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-OKRs/-/work_items/5713+
Edited by John Jarvis