Automate Cluster Recovery - Via a Pipeline

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Background

During disaster recoveries, restorations are manually carried out by running different velero restore create commands depending on if it's a cluster or its components/objects/namespaces etc that's being restored, as documented here.

Approach

Could this be automated? Is it possible to set up a pipeline that could handle the cluster restoration?

Which part of the user docs does this impact

(https://runbooks.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk/disaster-recovery-scenarios.html#losing-the-whole-cluster)

Communicate changes

• post for #cloud-platform-update
• Weeknotes item
• Show the Thing/P&A All Hands/User CoP
• Announcements channel

Questions / Assumptions

Definition of done

• readme has been updated
• user docs have been updated
• another team member has reviewed
• smoke tests are green
• prepare demo for the team

Reference

How to write good user stories