Re: Running PostgreSQL in Kubernetes?

> Is anyone running PostgreSQL in Kubernetes? If you do, what solution do
> you prefer?
>
> What I've tried myself:
>
> 1. Running the official postgres:12.6 images in a StatefulSet. It works
> fine but there is neither failover nor replication.
>
> 2. Zalando's postgres-operator. Replication and failover work out of the
> box, but the documentation is not the best. Things like wal-g backup and
> PITR are probably possible, but you need to be an egghead to figure out
> how to make them work. Why, I cannot even figure out how to add a
> team after installing the postgres-operator from the official Helm repo.
>
> I'd be especially grateful if you shared your own personal experience
> with Kubernetes and PostgreSQL.

We're using CrunchyData's operator, which in turn uses Patroni & pgbackrest...