EDB Postgres AI for CloudNativePG Cluster#

The EDB Postgres AI for CloudNativePG Cluster operator is a fork based on CloudNativePG™ . It provides additional value such as compatibility with Oracle using EDB Postgres Advanced Server and additional supported platforms such as IBM Power and OpenShift. It is designed, developed, and supported by EDB and covers the full lifecycle of a highly available Postgres database clusters with a primary/standby architecture, using native streaming replication.

EDB Postgres AI for CloudNativePG Cluster was made generally available on February 4, 2021. Earlier versions were made available to selected customers prior to the GA release.

Note

The operator has been renamed from Cloud Native PostgreSQL. Existing users of Cloud Native PostgreSQL will not experience any change, as the underlying components and resources have not changed.

Kubernetes API integration for high availability
CloudNativePG™ uses the postgresql.cnpg.io/v1 API version
EDB Postgres AI for CloudNativePG Cluster uses the postgresql.k8s.enterprisedb.io/v1 API version
Self-healing through failover and automated recreation of replicas
Capacity management with scale up/down capabilities
Planned switchovers for scheduled maintenance
Read-only and read-write Kubernetes services definitions
Rolling updates for Postgres minor versions and operator upgrades
Continuous backup and point-in-time recovery
Connection Pooling with PgBouncer
Integrated metrics exporter out of the box
PostgreSQL replication across multiple Kubernetes clusters
Separate volume for WAL files