Mission-critical systems like authoritative DNS are always risky to migrate Downtime is always a possibility when switching infrastructure providers
IBM improve your authoritative DNS during onboarding so you can start right away NS1 Connect capabilities should be familiar enough to help your business achieve better network performance, reliability, and delivery costs
IBM use this approach for complete changeovers and adding NS1 as a second provider When employing several authoritative DNS providers, verifying labor division and failover procedures is crucial
These stages’ timing depends on a customer’s DNS architecture’s scale and complexity and business needs IBM have done “emergency” migrations in a day, but IBM prefer a few weeks to give clients time to test functions
IBM scope the migration project with your DNS team at this step. IBM will ask about business needs and success metrics IBM will map your DNS infrastructure and ask about business-specific configurations
IBM also explore the NS1 link API and link to your automation platforms like Terraform or Ansible The core DNS architecture should be operational by the end of this phase
IBM work with your team to set up traffic steering logic, automated functionality, resilience, and monitoring frameworks based on application or business performance indicators