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Management Plane High Availability

This Management Plane High Availability design guide describes the measures you can take to backup and recover a failed Management Plane instance, and to deploy an active-standby pair of Management Planes.

  1. Before you begin​

    Before you begin - an explanation of the various options you have before planning your HA strategy.

High Availability Concepts​

  1. Introduction to HA​

    An introduction to Management Plane architecture and HA strategies.

  2. Failure Scenarios​

    Understand each Failure Scenario and its impact.

  3. Best Practices - Preparation for HA​

    The best practices to follow to prepare you for an HA deployment.

Operating a Highly-Available Management Plane​

  1. Monitor the Active Management Plane​

    How to monitor the active Management Plane and identify failures promptly.

  2. General Troubleshooting​

    General troubleshooting steps to perform, before opting for a failover action.

How to install a new Management Plane instance​

  1. Overview of prerequisites and requirements​

    An overview of the prerequisites and requirements to install and configure a new Management Plane instance.

  2. Install a new Management Plane (External Postgres database)​

    How to install a new Management Plane instance using an external Postgres database (shared or dedicated) and import its configuration from a backup.

  3. Install a new Management Plane (Embedded Postgres database)​

    How to install a new Management Plane instance using the embedded Postgres database and import its configuration from a backup.

  4. Perform a Failover​

    How to failover from the current Management Plane instance to the new instance.

  5. Troubleshooting​

    Troubleshooting issues during the failover process.

Advanced: Running an Active / Standby Management Plane​

  1. Overview of prerequisites and requirements​

    An overview of the prerequisites and requirements to install and operate an Active-Standby Management Plane instance pair.

  2. Install a new Management Plane (External Postgres database)​

    How to install an Active-Standby Management Plane pair using the embedded Postgres database, and configure automated replication.

  3. Perform a Failover​

    How to failover from the current, active Management Plane instance to the new standby instance.

  4. Troubleshooting​

    Troubleshooting issues during the failover process.