Failover an application
In case of a disaster, where one of your Kubernetes clusters is down and inaccessible, you can failover the applications running on it to an operational Kubernetes cluster. To achieve this, you should stop your application on the source cluster and start the application on an active Kubernetes cluster.
The following considerations are used in the examples on this page. Update them to the appropriate values for your environment.
- Source Cluster is the Kubernetes cluster which is down and where your applications were originally running.
- Destination Cluster is the Kubernetes cluster where the applications will be failed over.
- The Zookeeper application is being failed over to the destination cluster.
Stop the application on the source cluster (if accessible or applicable)
If your source Kubernetes cluster is still alive and is accessible, Portworx by Pure Storage recommends you to stop the applications before failing them over to the destination cluster.
Scale down the replica count of your application:
kubectl scale --replicas 0 statefulset/zk -n zookeeper
As the zookeeper
namespace is being used in the above command, it will scale down the replica count for the Zookeeper application. Update the namespace to your application namespace.
Suspend the migrations on the source cluster (if accessible)
Skip the section if autoSuspend
is set, which will automatically suspend your migration schedules on the source cluster. Therefore, proceed to the next section.
Run the following command to suspend the migration schedule. Once the replicas for your application's statefulset are set to 0, you need to suspend the migration schedule on the source cluster. This is done so that your application's stateful sets are not updated to 0 replicas on the destination cluster:
storkctl suspend migrationschedule migrationschedule -n <migrationnamespace>
Verify if the schedule has been suspended:
storkctl get migrationschedule -n <migrationnamespace>
NAME POLICYNAME CLUSTERPAIR SUSPEND LAST-SUCCESS-TIME LAST-SUCCESS-DURATION
migrationschedule <your-schedule-policy> remotecluster true 01 Dec 22 23:31 UTC 10s
Start the application on the destination cluster
You can allow Stork to activate migration either on all namespaces or one namespace at a time. For performance reasons, if you have a high number of namespaces in your migration schedule, Portworx by Pure Storage recommends you migrate one namespace at a time.
Each application spec will have the annotation
stork.openstorage.org/migrationReplicas
indicating the replica count on the source cluster. Run the following command to update the replica count of your app to the same number as on your source cluster:storkctl activate migration -n zookeeper
Run the following command to migrate all namespaces:
storkctl activate migration --all-namespaces
Stork will look for that annotation and scale it to the correct number automatically. Once the replica count is updated, the application will start running, and the failover will be completed.
Verify that your application is up and running:
kubectl get pods -n zookeeper
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
zk-0 1/1 Running 0 3m18s
zk-1 1/1 Running 0 2m54s
zk-2 1/1 Running 0 99sYou can see that the status of all the pods for Zookeeper shows running, indicating that your application is operational.