Managing lifecycle operations
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EDB Postgres Distributed (PGD) provides a suite of tools and
methodologies for maintaining the health and evolution of your
multi-master clusters. Managing lifecycle operations effectively ensures
that your high-availability environment remains performant and secure
through software updates, migrations, and configuration tuning.

- :ref:`Deploying and configuring PGD on Hybrid Manager <Deploying and configuring PGD on Hybrid Manager>`  \_ Instructions for provisioning PGD clusters across
  different environments, including manual installations, TPA-automated
  deployments, CloudNativePG deployments, and Hybrid Manager
  integrations.

- :ref:`Upgrading PGD <Upgrading PGD>`  \_ Detailed workflows for performing minor and major
  version upgrades for both the underlying PostgreSQL engine and the PGD
  extension with minimal downtime.

- :ref:`Testing and tuning PGD clusters <Testing and tuning PGD clusters>`  \_ Guidance on benchmarking your distributed workloads
  using ``pgd-bench`` and optimizing system parameters for maximum
  throughput.

- :ref:`Backup and recovery <Backup and recovery>`  \_ Best practices for securing your data, including
  physical and logical backup strategies tailored for distributed
  multi-master topologies.

.. toctree::
  :maxdepth: 3

  lifecycle--deploying--index
  lifecycle--upgrades--index
  lifecycle--testing-tuning
  lifecycle--backup-restore
  lifecycle--migrating--index