Unified Disaster Recovery as Part of GitOps
OpenShift now supports synchronous data replication and automated failover between geographically close locations for containers and VMs. Red Hat promises that this new capability covers the vast majority of common VM setups, but admins should still verify the proper replication and failover for their specific workloads.
OpenShift 4.16 also brings a tech preview of the policy-driven definition and management of disaster recovery via declarative code statements. This enables DevOps teams to define the desired state of the entire cluster of VMs and containers to ensure automated recovery and consistency across regions.