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Disaster Recovery Setup for Azure App Service

Introduction:

Disaster recovery (DR) planning is essential for maintaining business continuity


and ensuring high availability of critical applications. Azure App Service, being a
platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, provides a robust hosting environment
for web applications. However, disruptions such as regional outages or
disasters can impact the availability of your App Service applications.
Implementing DR for Azure App Service involves setting up redundant
environments across multiple Azure regions to ensure continuous operation in
the event of a disaster.

This document provides a comprehensive guide for setting up disaster


recovery for Azure App Service using various architectural approaches: active-
active, active-passive, and passive-cold. Each architecture offers distinct
benefits and trade-offs, allowing you to choose the most suitable approach
based on your requirements and budget.

Why Implement Disaster Recovery for Azure App Service?

Implementing disaster recovery for Azure App Service offers several key
benefits:

High Availability: Ensures continuous availability of your web applications, even


during regional outages or disasters.

Business Continuity: Minimizes downtime and prevents loss of revenue by


quickly restoring application functionality in the event of an outage.

Compliance Requirements: Meets regulatory compliance requirements by


implementing robust disaster recovery measures.

Customer Confidence: Enhances customer trust and confidence by


demonstrating a commitment to maintaining service availability under any
circumstances.
Cost Savings: Reduces the risk of costly downtime-associated losses and
potential reputational damage by proactively planning for disaster scenarios.

Active-Active Architecture Setup:

In an active-active disaster recovery architecture, identical web apps are


deployed in two separate regions, and Azure Front Door is used to route traffic
to both active regions simultaneously.

Steps:

Create App Service Plans:

Provision two App Service plans in different Azure regions with identical
configurations to host your web applications.

Deploy Web Apps:

Deploy identical instances of your web app to each App Service plan, ensuring
consistency across regions.
Configure Azure Front Door:

Create an Azure Front Door profile with:

 An endpoint pointing to your web applications.


 Two origin groups with equal priority (1) for both regions.
 Route configuration to distribute traffic evenly to both active regions.
 Restrict network traffic to the web apps only from Azure Front Door for
security.

Continuous Deployment:

Implement continuous deployment pipelines to automate code deployments


to both web app instances.

Testing and Validation:

Conduct failover tests to verify Azure Front Door's ability to route traffic
correctly during a disaster scenario.

Active-Passive Architecture Setup:

In an active-passive disaster recovery approach, identical web apps are


deployed in two separate regions, but Azure Front Door routes traffic to only
one region (the active region) at a time.
Steps:

Create App Service Plans:

Set up two App Service plans in different Azure regions, maintaining cost-
effectiveness in the passive region.

Configure Autoscaling:

Define autoscaling rules for the passive App Service plan to scale to the same
instance count as the active plan during failover events.

Deploy Web Apps:

Deploy identical instances of your web app to both App Service plans, ensuring
synchronization between regions.

Configure Azure Front Door:

Configure an Azure Front Door profile with:

 An endpoint directing traffic to the active region.


 An origin group with priority 1 for the active region.
 Another origin group with priority 2 for the passive region.
 Route configuration to prioritize the active region under normal
conditions.
 Enforce network traffic restrictions to the web apps through Azure
Front Door for security.

Continuous Deployment:

Establish continuous deployment pipelines to streamline code deployments to


both web app instances.

Testing and Validation:

Perform failover tests to validate the failover process and ensure seamless
transition to the passive region in case of a disaster.

Passive-Cold Architecture Setup:

In a passive-cold disaster recovery architecture, backups of the web app are


regularly maintained in an Azure Storage account located in a separate region
for restoration in the event of a disaster.

Steps:

Create Azure Storage Account:

Establish an Azure Storage account in a geographically distinct region from the


primary web app's region, ensuring redundancy.

Enable Read Access to Secondary Region:

Enable read-only access for the secondary region in the storage account (RA-
GZRS or RA-GRS) to facilitate cross-region backup retrieval.

Configure Custom Backup:

Configure a custom backup schedule for your web app to regularly back up to
the Azure Storage account in the secondary region.
Testing and Validation:

Validate the backup process and verify the accessibility of backup files from the
secondary region for rapid restoration.

Cost Considerations:

Implementing disaster recovery in multiple regions incurs additional costs for


resources such as App Service plans, storage accounts, and network egress.
Organizations should carefully assess the cost implications and consider factors
such as:

Resource Provisioning: Provisioning redundant resources in multiple regions


increases resource consumption and associated costs.

Data Transfer: Transferring data between regions, especially during failover


events, may incur network egress charges.

Azure Front Door: While Azure Front Door offers traffic routing and failover
capabilities, it also has associated costs based on usage and features utilized.

Organizations should analyse their disaster recovery requirements and budget


constraints to optimize resource utilization and minimize costs while ensuring
adequate resilience.

Conclusion

Implementing disaster recovery for Azure App Service is critical for ensuring
high availability, business continuity, and compliance with regulatory
requirements. By following the guidelines outlined in this document,
organizations can establish robust disaster recovery strategies tailored to their
specific needs, thereby safeguarding against potential downtime and data loss
in the face of unforeseen disasters or outages. Regular testing, monitoring, and
refinement of DR plans are essential to maintaining the effectiveness of
disaster recovery measures over time.

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