Hacker GitHub

← All repos

zalando/postgres-operator

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 5,270 Go

Postgres operator creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes

25 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 2 stories, 23 comments · first 2017-10-11 · latest 2025-12-20

Mentions per year 25 mentions · busiest year 2023 (7)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. At $WORK we’ve been using the Zalando Postgres kubernetes operator to great success: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator As someone who has operated Postgres clusters for over a decade before k8s was even a thing, I fully…
    comment by ninkendo · 2025-12-20 · in Go ahead, self-host Postgres
  2. ▲ 2
    Zalando Postgres-Operator: creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters in Kubernetes
    story by tosh · 2024-09-10 · 0 comments
  3. If you are on k8s, the Zalando operator is an excellent choice: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator
    comment by verdverm · 2023-12-14 · in Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner
  4. …It's UI part that's broken, which cannot list snapshots. Issue is here, no fix since 2020, sadly: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator/issues/937
    comment by rlex · 2023-09-23 · in CloudNativePG – Postgres Operator for Kubernetes
  5. …add databases and users by updating the CRD, feature parity between the two on HA is pretty good https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator
    comment by verdverm · 2023-08-24 · in How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Part 1
  6. …(it also comes with a haproxy config to have a single leader connection) or for k8s their operator: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator (docker image: https://github.com/zalando/spilo ) we've also tried other operators which were…
    comment by merb · 2023-06-14 · in Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It
  7. As far as I understand Zalando does this. They have their own PostgreSQL operator https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator .
    comment by ofrzeta · 2023-04-30 · in MRSK: Deploy web apps anywhere
  8. …161 open. Which doesn't seem extraordinary based on my limited exposure to k8s. Another example: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator/issues with 445 open issues. Why? Maybe I'm wrong and this is all a good sign of progress, but my…
    comment by thunky · 2023-02-11 · in Databases on Kubernetes is fundamentally same as a database on a VM
  9. …for CRD specifying databases to be created and manages upgrade and backs for those databases. https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator
    comment by ncrmro · 2023-01-29 · in Features I'd Like in PostgreSQL
  10. …replication. It also has Spilo, which orchestrates pg_basebackup or WAL-E for point-in-time backup. https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator#postgresql-feat... CrunchyData operator seems to have built their own streaming replication…
    comment by rektide · 2022-12-10 · in Just use Postgres for everything
  11. Another popular alternative: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator New player from Enterprise DB: https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg
    comment by vbezhenar · 2022-06-26 · in Pgo: The Postgres operator from crunchy data
  12. I used this one recently and it worked pretty well: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator
    comment by CameronNemo · 2022-06-25 · in PostgreSQL upgrades are hard
  13. …+ more, managed by Ansible. If you do want to use Kubernetes, then check out: - StackGres.io - https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator - https://blog.flant.com/comparing-kubernetes-operators-for-po...
    comment by samokhvalov · 2022-03-05 · in Ask HN: Tips on hosting your own Postgres instance
  14. link to the zalando postgres operator: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator
    comment by csunbird · 2021-10-06 · in PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes
  15. I'm curious if you've looked at https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator and had thoughts on how it compared. The CrunchyData operator seems to use Patroni and links to the Patroni documentation which links to the Zalando Postgres…
    comment by mdasen · 2021-09-06 · in Show HN: Postgres Docker image with common extensions
  16. …actually they are more based on the underlying things like patroni): zalando postgres operator https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator , really really solid stuff
    comment by merb · 2020-12-07 · in Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess
  17. Right, and operator from Zalando https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator (fresh good comparison, in Russian, but google translate should work well on such texnical texts https://habr.com/ru/company/flant/blog/520616/ ). All of them…
    comment by samokhvalov · 2020-09-27 · in Mastering PostgreSQL Administration [pdf]
  18. …use Patroni directly on Kubernetes or use Zalando's Postgres Operator [1] (based on Patroni)? [1] https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator
    comment by hjacobs · 2020-05-30 · in Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment
  19. …operators[2] we might see these prices coming closer to bare-metal. [1] https://kubedb.com/ [2] https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator
    comment by parhamn · 2019-12-01 · in Unbundling AWS
  20. …run hundreds of PostgreSQL database clusters on Kubernetes (on AWS) using our Postgres Operator ( https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator ). This gives us some added flexibility, quick startup (e.g. for e2e), and the latest PG…
    comment by hjacobs · 2019-08-18 · in Ask HN: Do you run databases on Kubernetes?
  21. https://github.com/zalando-incubator/postgres-operator supports point in time data recovery just fine and is used in production for 100s of databases at Zalando.
    comment by DasIch · 2018-12-30 · in KubeDB – Run production-grade databases easily on Kubernetes
  22. …have a look at operators for managing applications on Kubernetes, such as this one for PostgreSQL: https://github.com/zalando-incubator/postgres-operator .
    comment by afroisalreadyin · 2018-07-05 · in A Tutorial Introduction to Kubernetes
  23. …resources and volumes -> https://github.com/heptio/ark - Spin up dynamic postgres clusters -> https://github.com/zalando-incubator/postgres-operator Databases are just applications with different resource needs. Please stop pushing forward…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2018-05-02 · in Stateful Apps on Kubernetes: A quick primer
  24. …a postgres operator by Zalando which sets up postgres with WAL-E and auto failover using Patroni. https://github.com/zalando-incubator/postgres-operator
    comment by mslot · 2017-10-30 · in Scaling the GitLab database
  25. ▲ 1
    postgres-operator: creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes
    story by guifortaine · 2017-10-11 · 0 comments