Geo: Minor improvements to Disaster Recovery and Planned Failover docs
What does this MR do?
Minor improvements to Disaster Recovery and Planned Failover docs.
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In the Block primary traffic step, add a step to verify the GitLab UI is blocked. E.g. Verify that you cannot visit the primary in browser -
In the Block primary traffic step, add a step to verify pushes are blocked. E.g. Verify that pushing a commit fails over HTTPredundant -
In the Block primary traffic step, add a step to verify pushes are blocked. E.g. Verify that pushing a commit fails over SSH if Git over SSH is enabled -
In the Allow replication to finish as much as possible step, specify exactly which queues are of most interestThis is addressed sufficiently in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/4920 -
Add "FYI remember to remove broadcast message" after failover is complete -
Suggest lowering TTL in the DR doc after preparing for planned failover (this advice is useful for unplanned failovers as well) -
Reassure that changing the external url won’t prevent access via the secondary url, as long as the secondary DNS records are correct.
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Why was this MR needed?
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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?
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Changelog entry added, if necessary -
Documentation created/updated -
API support added -
Tests added for this feature/bug - Review
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Has been reviewed by UX -
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Has been reviewed by Database
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Conform by the merge request performance guides -
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Internationalization required/considered -
If paid feature, have we considered GitLab.com plan and how it works for groups and is there a design for promoting it to users who aren't on the correct plan -
End-to-end tests pass ( package-qa
manual pipeline job)
What are the relevant issue numbers?
Resolves #4932 (closed)
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