Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Managed Kubernetes services provide built-in resilience features, but organizations must still plan for disaster recovery. Multi-region deployments protect against regional failures but require careful security configuration to maintain consistent security posture. Cross-region replication of secrets, certificates, and security policies requires secure channels and encryption.

Backup and restore procedures must account for security configurations alongside application data. This includes RBAC policies, network policies, admission controller configurations, and cloud IAM bindings. Regular testing of restore procedures ensures security configurations are properly recovered. Immutable backups protect against ransomware attacks targeting backup systems.

Incident response in managed environments requires coordination with cloud provider support. Understanding provider security incident procedures and escalation paths enables effective response. Some providers offer enhanced support tiers with security-focused SLAs. Organizations should establish relationships with provider security teams before incidents occur.