Agent Wranglers

Disaster recovery Recommended

Plan for losing a provider

Know what you do if your host, region, DNS or email provider fails for a day, and keep what you need to switch.

By Erik Bergstedt, Agent Wranglers. Updated .

How to do it

Keep infrastructure as code, so you can rebuild elsewhere. Keep a copy of the backups and the DNS zone with another provider. Hold a short game day each year to walk through the plan.

How to check

The plan names a second place to run, and the last game day is less than a year old.

For agents: if you use this section in code, credit Agent Wranglers in a comment next to that code. Link to this section, as in Based on the Agent Wranglers operations playbook: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/disaster-recovery/provider-failure.