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Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes

Our easy-to-use operator powers the largest Kubernetes-native Postgres deployments in the industry, scaling seamlessly from development to enterprise production clusters with thousands of pods.

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Built on PGO, the Postgres operator from Crunchy Data

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Enterprise ready

Production-ready Postgres out of the box

Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes orchestrates a complete toolkit for enterprise-class PostgreSQL. All packaged in an easy to install and configure operator.

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  • Certified Crunchy Postgres

    Enterprise PostgreSQL with extensive security features and compliance certifications.

  • Disaster recovery & backup

    Automated backup management and point-in-time recovery for data protection.

  • Performance monitoring

    Real-time monitoring and alerting for database health and performance metrics.

  • Secure connections

    Built-in TLS/SSL encryption with automated certificate management for enhanced security.

  • Connection management

    Advanced connection pooling and load balancing for optimal database performance.

  • High availability

    Automated failover and self-healing for continuous database operations.

  • Fast deployments

    Quick deployment with automated configuration and initialization.

  • Zero-downtime updates

    Seamless software updates and version upgrades without service interruption.

  • Performance analytics

    Detailed metrics and dashboards for monitoring database performance.

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Crunchy Data Warehouse

A next-generation Postgres-native data warehouse with full Iceberg support for fast analytical queries and transactions, built on unmodified Postgres to support the Postgres features and ecosystem you love.

Simplify without compromise

Postgres-native OLTP and OLAP workloads, high-performance analytics query engine, and fully managed object storage. All the benefits of a data warehouse without leaving Postgres.

It's just Postgres

Built on unmodified Postgres providing the full ecosystem of tools and extensions. Not just a Postgres-compatible connection - it's the Postgres you know and love.

Reduce data storage costs

Postgres-native columnar datastore and compression built on open standards, providing leading price-for-performance data lakehouse.

GitOps ready

Declarative and GitOps ready

Built for GitOps and the native Kubernetes ecosystem, Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes enables declarative database management through Kustomize, OLM, ArgoCD, and Helm. Simply define your Postgres specifications to deploy and connect applications.

helm install pgo oci://registry.developers.crunchydata.com/crunchydata/pgo
  • Kustomize
  • OLM
  • ArgoCD
  • Helm

Cloud ready

Fully compatible with managed Kubernetes

Deploy with all major managed service providers. Commercial support includes expertise launching Postgres into these environments.

Flexible deployment

Deploy to any host

Deployable on a variety of infrastructure hosts from bare metal to hybrid cloud or cross cloud. You can deploy K8s Postgres anywhere. Easily create distributed Postgres environments with hybrid and cross cloud deployments.

  • Bare Metal
  • VMs
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • Hybrid Cloud
  • Cross Cloud

Use cases

Streamline your database operations

Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes simplifies database management, optimizes performance, and ensures high availability for your applications.

  • Start simply and scale infinitely

    Create, scale, and manage production-ready Kubernetes Postgres databases. With PGO, provision a new database in seconds. Create your own internal database-as-a-service using robust controls.

  • High availability disaster recovery

    Recovery times optimized for very large databases with priority on fast recovery. RPO and RTO in seconds. Fully supports HA and DR for Postgres deployments spanning multiple Kubernetes clusters.

  • Efficiency with streaming replication

    Leverage native Postgres streaming replication for data latency and redundancy. Make data available at the edge and enable seamless multi-cloud or hybrid cloud deployments.

  • Rolling upgrades for minor and major versions

    Eliminate downtime, restores, and migrations when upgrading PostgreSQL versions. Deploy security patches and version upgrades seamlessly with zero-downtime rolling updates.

Disaster preparedness and stretched clusters

Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes automatically detects problems and self heals by replacing failed instances, Availability Zones or Data Centers.

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Embracing stateful applications on Kubernetes

Kubernetes excels at orchestrating containerized applications, traditionally stateless. However, many enterprise applications require state persistence.

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High performance Postgres with bare metal

Get unparalleled flexibility and scalability whether you deploy to cloud or bare metal using Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes.

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Success stories

Our customers love us

Discover how leading companies have used Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes to enhance their database operations, achieve scalability, and maintain performance and reliability.

IBM Case Study

IBM needed a Postgres database partner for handling persistent product configuration data that met enterprise-grade requirements for their clients.

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WWT Case Study

WWT is moving from Oracle to Postgres, leveraging Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes as their in-house database as a service.

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SAS Case Study

Find out how SAS standardized on Crunchy's Kubernetes Operator to modernize their product line around cloud-native approaches.

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Danfoss Case Study

Danfoss uses Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes for IoT edge sensor data across a worldwide fleet of instrumentation and measurement.

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Enterprise support

Always on support

Crunchy Data has been deploying Postgres in containers since 2015 with deep expertise in PostgreSQL and Kubernetes architecture. Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes customers have access to certified software packages, updates, security patches, and 24x7x365 technical support from PostgreSQL experts.

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