This disclosure describes techniques for adaptive disaster recovery of applications running on network devices. The techniques include generating an application template and an application template clone that include application attributes usable to deploy an application stack at an application site. The techniques also include sending the application template clone to a disaster recovery site group to await deployment instructions. In some examples, an observer may determine that a health metric of the application site indicates that a disaster recovery process be triggered. A disaster recovery site of the disaster recovery site group may be selected based at least in part on a performance metric. The application stack may be deployed at the disaster recovery site utilizing the application template clone.