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Jeff McCormick
Jeff McCormick
Crunchy Data is pleased to release PostgreSQL Operator 4.0 . Crunchy PostgreSQL Operator extends Kubernetes to give you the power to easily create, configure and manage PostgreSQL clusters at scale. When combined with the Crunchy PostgreSQL Container Suite , the Crunchy PostgreSQL Operator provides an open source software solution for PostgreSQL scaling, high-availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and more. All of this capability comes with the repeatability and automation that comes fr...
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Crunchy Data is happy to announce the release of the open source PostgreSQL Operator 3.5 for Kubernetes project, which you can find here: https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator/ This latest release provides further feature enhancements designed to support users intending to deploy large-scale PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes , with enterprise high-availability and disaster recovery requirements. When combined with the Crunchy PostgreSQL Container Suite , the PostgreSQL Operato...
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Jeff McCormick
Crunchy Data is pleased to announce an initial implementation of a PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes to build on our work with PostgreSQL Containers. This initial implementation provides a user with the ability to perform certain PostgreSQL functions including creating PostgreSQL clusters, performing database backup and restores and viewing persistent volume claims. Last November the team at CoreOS introduced the concept of an “application-specific controller” for Kubernetes called software Op...
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Jeff McCormick
This blog provides guidance on how to build a PostgreSQL cluster using the new Kubernetes feature - StatefulSet . Using this StatefulSet capability provides a very simple, Kubernetes native, mechanism to make clustering decisions when deploying a PostgreSQL cluster. The Crunchy PostgreSQL Container Suite is a set of containers that can be used to deploy, monitor, and administer the open source PostgreSQL database. More details can be found in the crunchy-containers GitHUB repository here In...
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Jeff McCormick
PLEASE READ THE UPDATED VERSION: AN EASY RECIPE FOR CREATING A POSTGRESQL CLUSTER WITH DOCKER SWARM The below content has been deprecated in favor of An Easy Recipe for Creating a PostgreSQL Cluster with Docker Swarm . In this blog I’ll show you how to deploy a PostgreSQL cluster using the latest Docker 1.12 technology. Updates to Docker in their 1.12 release greatly simplify deploying a PostgreSQL cluster. IP addresses and hostnames used in this blog are just examples and not mandated. To sta...
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Jeff McCormick
As we have discussed previously , Crunchy Data supplies a set of open source PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL related containers. The Crunchy PostgreSQL Container Suite includes containers that deploy, monitor, and administer the open source PostgreSQL database, for more details view this GitHub repository . In this post we’ll show you how to deploy a PostgreSQL cluster using Helm , a Kubernetes package manager. (This blog cross-posted at https://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/09/creating-postgresql-clu...
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Jeff McCormick
In this blog post, we will discuss how PostgreSQL metrics are collected and stored as part of the Crunchy Container Suite project running within the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Crunchy Data is a Red Hat Technology Connect and OpenShift Primed partner. The Crunchy Container Suite is an open source collection of docker container images designed to run and manage PostgreSQL in a cloud-native environment. The Crunchy Container Suite can be found within this Github repository: https://gith...
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Jeff McCormick
Crunchy Data is a leading provider of trusted open source PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL support, technology and training. In an earlier blog , the basics of the Crunchy PostgreSQL containers were presented demonstrating how easy and efficient it is to run PostgreSQL in containers such as Docker. In this follow up several new advanced features are highlighted from the Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes . The containers are open source and can be run either stand-alone, within Kubernetes, or within R...
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