Posts about Kubernetes

As a Solutions Architect at Crunchy Data, I work directly with customers testing and deploying Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes. I often see our customers fully removing a PGO

One of the many reasons "the answer is Postgres" is due to its extensibility.

The ability to extend Postgres has given rise to an ecosystem of Postgres extensions that change the behavior of the database to support a wide range of interesting capabilities. At Crunchy Data

Did you know that PostgreSQL 12 introduced a way for you to provide multifactor (aka "two-factor") authentication to your database?

This comes from the ability to set clientcert=verify-full as part of your pg_hba.conf

You've built an application and are using Postgres to run it. You move it into production. Things are going great. So great that you've accumulated so much data that you need to resize your disk.

Before the cloud, this often involved either expanding your disk partitioning or getting a new disk, both of which are costly operations. Cloud has made this much easier: disk resizes can occur online or transparently to the application, and can be done as simply as clicking a button (such as in Crunchy Bridge

As more data workloads shift to running on Kubernetes, one of the important topics to consider is security of your data. Kubernetes brings many conveniences for securing workloads with the ability to extend security functionality databases through the use of the Operator pattern

Encrypting data at rest is often an important compliance task when working on securing your database system. While there are a lot of elements that go into securing a PostgreSQL database, encrypting data at rest helps to protect your data from various offline attacks including the stealing of a disk or tampering. Disk encryption is a popular feature among public database-as-a-service providers, including Crunchy Bridge,

One of the reasons why I like deploying Postgres on Kubernetes with PGO, the open source Postgres Operator

Last week PostgreSQL 14 became generally available to the public. The release contains a lot of cool stuff, including features that I can appreciate from my application development background like better JSON

There is no cure-all when it comes to security. Making things open to the public internet can leave you vulnerable to various security risks, including zero-day vulnerabilities or various password attacks

We recently announced the release of version 5.0 of PGO, the open source Postgres Operator