Spanner Database Should Be Highly Available

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Ensure spanner database is highly available in multiple locations

Risk Level

Low

Address

Reliability, Security

Compliance Standards

HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2, NISTCSF, PCIDSS

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Remediation

Using Console

Using CLI

To remediate the misconfiguration of Spanner Database not being highly available in GCP using GCP CLI, you can follow the below steps:

Open the Cloud Shell in the GCP console.
Run the following command to check the current configuration of Spanner Database:
```
gcloud spanner instances describe [INSTANCE_NAME] --project=[PROJECT_ID]
```
Replace [INSTANCE_NAME] with the name of the Spanner Database instance and [PROJECT_ID] with the ID of the GCP project.
Check the value of the availabilityConfig field in the output of the above command. If the value is REGIONAL, then the instance is highly available. If the value is ZONAL, then the instance is not highly available.
To make the instance highly available, run the following command:
```
gcloud spanner instances update [INSTANCE_NAME] --project=[PROJECT_ID] --availability-type=REGIONAL
```
Replace [INSTANCE_NAME] with the name of the Spanner Database instance and [PROJECT_ID] with the ID of the GCP project.
After running the above command, the instance will be updated to be highly available. You can check the configuration again by running the command in step 2.

Note: Making the instance highly available may incur additional costs.

Using Python

To remediate the misconfiguration of Spanner Database not being highly available in GCP, you can follow these steps using Python:

Check the current configuration of the Spanner Database:

from google.cloud import spanner

# Create a Spanner client object.
spanner_client = spanner.Client()

# Get a reference to the instance.
instance = spanner_client.instance('your-instance-id')

# Get a reference to the database.
database = instance.database('your-database-id')

# Check if the database is highly available.
if database.is_highly_available():
    print('The database is highly available.')
else:
    print('The database is not highly available.')

If the database is not highly available, update the configuration to make it highly available:

from google.cloud import spanner

# Create a Spanner client object.
spanner_client = spanner.Client()

# Get a reference to the instance.
instance = spanner_client.instance('your-instance-id')

# Get a reference to the database.
database = instance.database('your-database-id')

# Update the configuration to make the database highly available.
database.update_ha(enable=True)

# Check if the database is now highly available.
if database.is_highly_available():
    print('The database is now highly available.')
else:
    print('The database is still not highly available.')

Verify that the database is now highly available by checking the database configuration:

from google.cloud import spanner

# Create a Spanner client object.
spanner_client = spanner.Client()

# Get a reference to the instance.
instance = spanner_client.instance('your-instance-id')

# Get a reference to the database.
database = instance.database('your-database-id')

# Check if the database is highly available.
if database.is_highly_available():
    print('The database is highly available.')
else:
    print('The database is not highly available.')

By following these steps, you can remediate the misconfiguration of Spanner Database not being highly available in GCP using Python.

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