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Andrew L'Ecuyer
Andrew L'Ecuyer
In today's landscape of complex systems with numerous observability options, OpenTelemetry has emerged as the standard for collecting logging and metrics. It creates a vendor-agnostic platform that works with almost any source and destination by taking in logs and metrics from all components, standardizing them, and routing them where needed. Though setup requires effort, the payoff is substantial: a unified view of your entire system, even across distributed environments. With Crunchy Postgr...
Read MoreGreg Nokes
Greg Nokes
Today's release of Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes, version 5.8, is a substantial update that introduces a range of features designed to revolutionize your data infrastructure and observability. Whether you are a seasoned DevOps engineer, a database administrator, or an application developer seeking a reliable Postgres environment, this version offers enhancements to streamline your workflows and enhance the overall efficiency of your deployments. The developer-focused improvements are: • Enhanc...
Read MoreCraig Kerstiens
Craig Kerstiens
Today I'm excited to announce the release of Crunchy Data Warehouse on premises, which provides one of the easiest and yet richest ways to work with your data lake in the environment of your choosing. Built on top of Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes, Crunchy Data Warehouse extends Postgres with a modern data warehouse solution, giving you: • The ability to easily query data where it resides in S3 or S3 compatible storage (like MinIO). With a variety of data formats supported including CSV, JSO...
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Andrew L'Ecuyer
One of the great new features recently added to Kubernetes - native Sidecar Containers - continues to get closer to GA with each new Kubernetes release. I was reviewing all of the great progress recently made by the Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) on Sidecar Containers and realized this feature has already produced some exciting results. For instance, this feature is already making it easier than ever before to use Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes with two important service mesh solut...
Read MoreGreg Nokes
Greg Nokes
We are excited to announce the release of Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes 5.7! This latest version brings a wealth of new features and enhancements designed to make your Postgres deployments on Kubernetes more flexible, efficient, secure, and robust than ever before. We have highlighted a few of the features that we are excited about below. You can also check out the release notes for more details We took a close look at our backup and disaster recovery systems to identify areas where we could...
Read MoreBrian Pace
Brian Pace
Backups are dead. Now that I have your attention, let me clarify. Traditional backups have earned a solid reputation for their reliability over time. However, they are dead in the sense that a backup is essentially useless until it's restored—essentially "resurrected." In this post, we'll explore best practices for managing PostgreSQL snapshots and backups using pgBackRest . We will then provide some guidance of how you apply these techniques in Kubernetes using the Postgres Operator (PGO) from...
Read MoreGreg Nokes
Greg Nokes
One of the major changes that the cloud brought to application and database management was the concept of "thin provisioning." With large amounts of compute or storage resources available behind an API, you can provision what you need now and expand your infrastructure as required. Frameworks like 12Factor and Cloud Native emerged to help developers leverage these new paradigms. In the past, these capabilities were only accessible to those leveraging public clouds. On-premises, with lead tim...
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Andrew L'Ecuyer
As a team you often get handed a piece of software to deploy and manage, for example Red Hat's Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) or Quay. Red Hat's guide is to run and manage this in OpenShift and great, you're already comfortable with OpenShift and have a decent size deployment. Turns out pretty early on you've got a decision to make you didn't even realize was a decision, what are you going to do about the database? Most software needs a database – and the database of choice is overwhelmingly...
Read MoreGreg Nokes
Greg Nokes
We are excited to introduce Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes (CPK) 5.6, the latest version of our PostgreSQL Kubernetes operator . This release brings several new features that will elevate your PostgreSQL experience to new heights, ensuring better management, automation, and scalability. Managing storage is now simpler with Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes 5.6. The new storage management feature allows CPK to automatically expand storage for your Postgres clusters as your data grows. Say goo...
Read MoreBob Pacheco
Bob Pacheco
In my role as a Solutions Architect at Crunchy Data, I help customers get up and running with Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes (CPK). Installing and managing a Postgres cluster in Kubernetes has never been easier. However, sometimes things don't go as planned and I’ve noticed a few major areas where Kubernetes installations go awry. Today I want to walk through some of the most common issues I see when people try to get up and running with Postgres in Kubernetes and offer a list of basic troubl...
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