PSQLmin

The Problem I used to follow the typical docker-compose solution for hosting databases, spin up a new database instance for each new application being hosted. This works reasonably well for starting out, but I ran into issues with storage and being able to take reliable backups (outside of copying the data folder) which was further exacerbated when I moved my set-up to kubernetes . I was unable to use NFS shares reliably for DB storage, backups were no longer “simple”. I did run zalando and CrunchyData postgres K8s operators with varying levels of success, but they did not “feel” right. I have recently been reading about CloudNativePG which gets high praise, but I am yet to try it out. ...

November 8, 2024 · 5 min · Adyanth Hosavalike