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PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source

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Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source

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From what I understand, you still have to solve the usual hard challenges of HA: 1) Applications reconnecting to the new Postgres master and retrying queries 2) Persistent storage available in multiple AZs or regions for your Postgres pods (impossible on AWS for example)

What about with Cloudflare's new policy of free egress?

Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source

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post #3

Since 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?

VMware has a very well supported Postgres K8S operator as well: https://tanzu.vmware.com/sql#sql-with-kubernetes

Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source

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generally hope 'self hosting your DB' becomes a spectrum rather than a choice to use or not use RDS

it's frustrating that you can't use something like timescaledb on a paas (i.e. that timescale needs to manage their own instances to operate their business).

not sure kube is the cheapest or safest way to run a DB, but there should be something platform-like for hosting persistent data

Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source

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post #21

From what I understand, you still have to solve the usual hard challenges of HA: 1) Applications reconnecting to the new Postgres master and retrying queries 2) Persistent storage available in multiple AZs or regions for your Postgres pods (impossible on AWS for example)

What about with Cloudflare's new policy of free egress?

My comment made a lot more sense before the parent's ninja edit :)

But the question remains. Would Cloudflare's free egress policy improve HA approaches?

Re: PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source

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post #15

Is it logical for AWS to offer RDS over K8s?

they already do in a way through aws-service-operator and replacement aws controllers for kubernetes (ACK) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-service-operator... https://github.com/aws-controllers-k8s/community

The ACK operator runs in k8s, but I'm pretty sure RDS instances created via ACK will still run natively in AWS.

ACK is a just a k8s native mechanism for defining the resource and managing its config/state.

More a replacement for Cloudformation or terraform.

Source: I read some stuff and am not 100% confident.

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