A realistic Kubernetes DR platform has three separate recovery planes.
Infrastructure, configuration, and business data each need their own recovery path and their own validation.
Primary region
KubernetesAPIs, workers, ingress
PostgreSQL + volumesTransactional state
Object storageUser files and blobs
Control plane
Terraform / GitOpsRebuild infra and app config
Immutable backupsRestore data independent of live replicas
External observabilitySee recovery even if prod is blind
DR region
Standby computePilot or warm capacity
Replica / restore targetPromote or restore here
Global routingDNS or traffic manager failover
Example stack
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
MinIO
Prometheus
Grafana
AWSMemory line: IaC rebuilds infrastructure, GitOps rebuilds configuration, backup paths rebuild data.