The Postgres Operator delivers easy-to-run highly available PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes (K8s) powered by Patroni. It is configured only through Postgres manifests (CRDs) to ease integration into automated CI/CD pipelines with no access to Kubernetes API directly, promoting infrastructure as code vs manual operations.
Features
- Rolling updates on Postgres cluster changes, incl. quick minor version updates
- Live volume resize without pod restarts (AWS EBS, PVC)
- Database connection pooling with PGBouncer
- Support fast in place major version upgrade. Supports global upgrade of all clusters
- Restore and cloning Postgres clusters on AWS, GCS and Azure
- Additionally logical backups to S3 or GCS bucket can be configured
- Basic credential and user management on K8s, eases application deployments
- Support for AWS EBS gp2 to gp3 migration, supporting iops and throughput configuration
- UI to create and edit Postgres cluster manifests
- Compatible with OpenShift
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