The Global Enterprise blueprint is designed for organizations that manage data across multiple geographic regions, cloud providers, or sovereign boundaries. This pattern prioritizes data residency compliance, egress cost mitigation, and workload isolation.

CVA Baseline Topology

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This blueprint is built upon the Distributed (Multi-Worker Group) Topology. It uses a single Leader (control plane) to orchestrate multiple, independent Worker Groups/Fleets (data plane) configured in diverse regions.

• Global Leader: A centralized Leader Node (typically Cribl.Cloud) that serves as the single source of truth for configurations across the entire global Worker Groups/Fleets.
• Regional Worker Groups/Fleets: Clusters of Worker/Edge Nodes deployed within specific regions (such as AWS eu-central-1, Azure West US, or an on-prem data center).
• Logical Separation: Data is processed within its region of origin, so that high-volume streams are optimized before hitting long-haul network links.

Overlays

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This architecture integrates the Regional/Geo Split Overlay to address the challenges of distributed data.

• Sovereignty & Compliance: Regional groups ensure that data subject to regulations like GDPR is processed (masked, filtered, or redacted) locally so that sensitive PII never leaves the regulated boundary.
• Egress Optimization: Reduce data volume at the source (drop noisy logs or convert to metrics) to significantly lower the “tax” of moving data across cloud regions or out to the internet.

Operational Guardrails

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To maintain a validated global deployment, you must adhere to these combined connectivity, management, and scaling standards:

• Latency and connectivity: Ensure network latency between the Leader and any remote Worker Group/Fleet does not exceed 250ms. For Hybrid sites, you must allow-list the Leader NLB IPs at every regional location to ensure consistent control-plane communication.
• Version Parity: Always upgrade the Leader first. Remote Worker/Edge Noes can be one minor version behind, but they must be brought to parity to ensure feature compatibility and security.
• Modular Configuration: Use Cribl Packs to standardize normalization logic across all global regions, using Environment Variables to manage region-specific settings (like local S3 bucket names).
• Local Redundancy (N-1): Every regional Worker Group or Fleet must be sized for redundancy locally. A failure in one geographic region should not impact the processing capacity of another.

For more considrerations, see Cribl.Cloud/Hybrid (not Vanilla) Guardrails.