PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
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PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
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Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
#2I love this sort of thing. Something I appreciate is looking through the resulting YAML config at the best practices and rich experience by the team that wrote it.
It reminds me of receiving "golden images" from vendors with a precisely best-practice install and configuration of their software.
Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
#3Since this is just a PR announcement by a third-party posted on an official PostgreSQL page: what is the difference between this and established PostgreSQL operators by Zalando and CrunchyData?
Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
#4Is there something new here from the April announcement? Did something change?
Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
#5Since this is just a PR announcement by a third-party posted on an official PostgreSQL page: what is the difference between this and established PostgreSQL operators by Zalando and CrunchyData?
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#6Is there something new here from the April announcement? Did something change?
This is the April announcement, at least it says it was published on April 21st.
Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
#7So I can create 2 servers running kubegres, kill one and then all data should be intact? And no downtime?
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#8Is it logical for AWS to offer RDS over K8s?
Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
#9So I can create 2 servers running kubegres, kill one and then all data should be intact? And no downtime?
will probably lose some data but easy enough to test with this thing
Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
#10Since this is just a PR announcement by a third-party posted on an official PostgreSQL page: what is the difference between this and established PostgreSQL operators by Zalando and CrunchyData?
I was wondering this too and found: https://www.kubegres.io/#kubegres_compared
It seems like the big difference is that it uses the standard PostgreSQL Docker images and doesn't bundle together as many things as Zalando or Crunchy Data. They'd likely argue that makes it easier to learn and a smaller surface area for attacks or things to go wrong.
Crunchy Data includes lots of add-ons like pgBouncer, pgAdmin 4, pgMonitor, and a bunch more. That might be a lot for someone that just wants a simple replicated PostgreSQL setup.
But I don't know much about Kubegress. It's repository has only 67 commits and 3 contributors so it's not as widely used as something like Crunchy Data or Zalando which have thousands of commits and hundreds of contributors. Likewise, Crunchy Data and Zalando both have 2,000+ stars compared to 387 for Kubegress.
That's not necessarily a sign of quality and part of that could be that Kubegress had a bunch of development before being open-sourced, that being later to the game makes it harder to build community, and that creating something simple might not require as many commits since you're creating something simple.