Disaster recovery (DR) in cloud environments is often complex and manual. In this talk, we’ll demonstrate a fully automated GitOps-driven disaster recovery solution using Terraform, ArgoCD, and Crossplane. We will walk through:

- IaC to provision an Amazon EKS cluster in a secondary region and automatically bootstrap ArgoCD.
- GitOps Automation to continuously manage both infrastructure and applications.
- Crossplane for Cloud Resources to dynamically provision cloud resources from Kubernetes.
- Application Resilience: Using ArgoCD to deploy Helm charts for applications, ensuring a seamless recovery process.

By the end of this session, attendees will understand how to orchestrate disaster recovery using Kubernetes-native tooling, eliminating manual failover processes while ensuring cloud resilience. Whether you’re working in regulated environments or just looking for a scalable DR strategy, this session will provide actionable insights and a reproducible framework.