The Recovery Story - Tissues Not Required

The Disaster

It’s Monday morning.

Your Docker host is dead. No SSH. No containers. No hope.

Something broke. Something always breaks.

This is why Container Monkey exists.

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Before Everything Went Wrong (Past You Was Smart)

Before today, Container Monkey was quietly doing boring things:

Running scheduled backups

Saving volumes, networks, and config

Storing backups off-host in a shared S3 vault (not on the host that just died)

Past You deserves a medal.

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The Recovery (Present You Is Calm Somehow)

1️⃣ New Host

Fresh OS

Docker installed

No containers

No panic

2️⃣ Install Container Monkey

It starts empty. That’s good.

3️⃣ Point It at Your Backups

You connect Container Monkey to your shared S3 vault.

Container Monkey responds with:

> “Here are your backups. You’re not doomed.”

4️⃣ Pick a Restore Point

You choose:

> “The one from before everything exploded.”

5️⃣ Click Restore

Container Monkey:

Recreates networks

Restores volumes

Rebuilds containers

Starts things in a sensible order

No guesswork. No dark magic.

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And Suddenly… It Works

Your services are back.

From the outside it looks like:

> “Oh, the server rebooted.”

You know better.

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Important Fine Print (Honesty Time)

Container Monkey:

Won’t fix broken apps

Won’t magically fix bad images

Won’t replace proper database backups

What it will do:

> Get you from "everything is on fire" to "okay, that was survivable" — reliably and repeatably.