/postgres-operator

Postgres operator creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes

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Postgres Operator

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The Postgres Operator enables highly-available PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes (K8s) powered by Patroni. It is configured only through manifests to ease integration into automated CI/CD pipelines with no access to Kubernetes directly.

Operator features

  • Rolling updates on Postgres cluster changes
  • Volume resize without Pod restarts
  • Database connection pooler
  • Cloning Postgres clusters
  • Logical backups to S3 Bucket
  • Standby cluster from S3 WAL archive
  • Configurable for non-cloud environments
  • UI to create and edit Postgres cluster manifests

PostgreSQL features

The Postgres Operator has been developed at Zalando and is being used in production for over two years.

Getting started

For a quick first impression follow the instructions of this tutorial.

Documentation

There is a browser-friendly version of this documentation at postgres-operator.readthedocs.io

Google Summer of Code

The Postgres Operator made it to the Google Summer of Code 2019! Check our ideas and start discussions in the issue tracker.

Community

There are two places to get in touch with the community:

  1. The GitHub issue tracker
  2. The #postgres-operator slack channel