Declarative Dual-Cluster Parity
Managed both primary and secondary clusters identically via Flux GitOps, guaranteeing that application manifests, configmaps, and secrets were synchronized continuously.
Multi-Region AKS with Automated DR Drills
Active-passive geographic resilience across East US and West Europe using Azure Front Door, geo-replicated Azure Container Registries, and automated game day failover drills.
22 min
RTO (cut down from 4 hours)
< 1 min
RPO database recovery point
100%
Game day failover success
4x
Quarterly automated drill cadence
Global Traffic Shift & Failover Architecture
Azure Front Door Global Anycast Health Probing
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Primary AKS (East US) Live Production Workload
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Secondary AKS (West EU) Warm Standby Auto-Sync
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Cosmos DB / SQL Geo Multi-Region Read/Write
The Challenge
A single regional cloud outage in 2025 took down the client's global container fleet for over 4 hours, freezing maritime shipment tracking and costing millions in contractual delay penalties.
The Architectural Solution
Automated Traffic Shifting
Configured Azure Front Door with automated latency routing and sub-minute health probes, shifting 100% of global ingress automatically whenever primary cluster responsiveness drops.
Quarterly Game Days
Instituted automated chaos drills using Azure Chaos Studio to inject simulated network failures and test automated recovery runbooks without human panic.