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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by kure256 » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 11:15 AM UTC

We’ve been experimenting with multi-cluster failover for Kubernetes workloads, and one open-source project that actually works really well is k8gb .

It acts as a GSLB controller inside Kubernetes — doing DNS-level health checks, region awareness, and automatic failover between clusters when one goes down.

It integrates with ExternalDNS and supports multiple DNS providers (Infoblox, Route53, Azure DNS, NS1, etc.), so it can handle failover across both on-prem and cloud clusters.

It’s not a silver bullet for every architecture, but it’s one of the few OSS projects that make multi-region failover actually manageable in practice.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by dedi089 » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 11:22 AM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by dedi089 » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 11:24 AM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by dedi089 » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 11:24 AM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by otterdude » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 11:30 AM UTC

lazystar wrote: post #446

otterdude wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What Amazon, Azure, and Google are showing with their platform crashes amid layoffs, while they supports governments that are Oppressing's Citizens and Ignoring the Law, is that they do not care about anything other than the bottom line. They think they have the market captured, but I think what their dwindling quality and ethics are really going to drive is adoption of self hosting, distributed computing frameworks.…

> they do not care about anything other than the bottom line. if all companies focused on fixing each and every social issue that exists in the world, how would they make any money?

All I'm saying Its a complete 360 from the marketing they did to establish their brand... you know, save the world kind of stuff, especially from google.

From 2000-2016 most tech marketing\branding was aimed at some kind of social benefit.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by lawgimenez » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 11:33 AM UTC

madjam002 wrote: post #730

neya wrote: post #708

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced.

My favourite was the Azure CTO complaining that Git was unintuitive, clunky and difficult to use

Sounds like he’s describing Windows phone.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by voidfunc » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 11:33 AM UTC

sfn42 wrote: post #737

neya wrote: post #708

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced.

I've only used Azure, to me it seems fine ish. Some things are rather overcomplicated and it's far from perfect but I assumed the other providers were similarly complicated and imperfect. Can't say I've experienced many bugs in there either. It definitely is overpriced but I assume they all are?

They are all broken, weird, and expensive in their own ways. Its nothing unique to Azure.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by sofixa » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 11:37 AM UTC

neya wrote: post #708

xnorswap wrote: post #701

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33 minutes from impact to status page for a complete outage is a joke.

In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced.

> In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced.

Don't forget extremely insecure. There is a quarterly critical cross-tenant CVE with trivial exploitation for them, and it has been like that for years.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by onionisafruit » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 11:53 AM UTC

not_a_bot_4sho wrote: post #692

onionisafruit wrote: post #687

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At 16:04 “Investigation commenced”. Then at 16:15 “We began the investigation”. Which is it?

I read it as the second investigation being specific to AFD. The first more general.

I think you’re right. I missed that subtlety on first reading.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by Xss3 » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 12:05 PM UTC

infaloda wrote: post #714

xnorswap wrote: post #701

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33 minutes from impact to status page for a complete outage is a joke.

More importantly `15:45 UTC on 29 October 2025 – Customer impact began. 16:04 UTC on 29 October 2025 – Investigation commenced following monitoring alerts being triggered. ` A 19-minute delay in alert is a joke.

That does not say it took 19 minutes for alerts to appear. Following could mean any amount of time.