From the course: Cloud Observability and Operations: Considerations for Security, Governance, Monitoring, and Cost Control

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Self-healing example

Self-healing example

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Self-healing example

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- [Instructor] Self-healing in CloudOps refers to the ability of CloudOps tools, such as observability, to resolve issues without requiring human intervention. This is key to CloudOps, considering that we're attempting automatic repairs and fixes as much as we can. This increases uptime because we don't have to deal with each and every cloud system problem, but have automated tasks that can self-heal on our behalf. The best way to work through the concept of self-healing is to work through an example. Let's say that we have a public cloud-based system that has a relational database attached to an inventory application. The application is running on a Linux-based server and uses native development tools. The system has over 1,000 users working on this application at any given time, and the database is critical to the application operations. If not running, the application won't work either. Most applications are like this. This is known as tightly coupled, or there is a dependence…

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