• pgAudit: Auditing Database Operations Part 1

    Jason O'Donnell

    The PostgreSQL Audit extension (pgaudit) provides detailed session and/or object audit logging via the standard PostgreSQL logging facility. Basic statement logging can be provided by the standard logging facility in PostgreSQL. Out of the box logging provided by PostgreSQL is acceptable for monitoring and other usages but does not provide the level of detail generally required for an audit. pgAudit enhances PostgreSQL's logging abilities by allowing administrators to audit specific classes of o...

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  • pgBackRest - Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore

    David Steele

    In our ongoing series of blog posts designed to help you better run, manage, and support PostgreSQL, today we have a post discussing pgBackRest, a powerful open source tool for managing backups and restores of PostgreSQL databases... pgBackRest aims to be a simple, reliable backup and restore system that can seamlessly scale up to the largest databases and workloads. Instead of relying on traditional backup tools like tar and rsync, pgBackRest implements all backup features internally and uses...

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    Creating a PostgreSQL Cluster using Helm for Kubernetes

    Jeff McCormick

    As we have discussed previously , Crunchy Data supplies a set of open source PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL related containers. The Crunchy PostgreSQL Container Suite includes containers that deploy, monitor, and administer the open source PostgreSQL database, for more details view this GitHub repository . In this post we’ll show you how to deploy a PostgreSQL cluster using Helm , a Kubernetes package manager. (This blog cross-posted at https://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/09/creating-postgresql-clu...

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    PostgreSQL Monitoring Within Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

    Jeff McCormick

    In this blog post, we will discuss how PostgreSQL metrics are collected and stored as part of the Crunchy Container Suite project running within the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Crunchy Data is a Red Hat Technology Connect and OpenShift Primed partner. The Crunchy Container Suite is an open source collection of docker container images designed to run and manage PostgreSQL in a cloud-native environment. The Crunchy Container Suite can be found within this Github repository: https://gith...

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    Advanced Crunchy Containers for PostgreSQL

    Jeff McCormick

    Crunchy Data is a leading provider of trusted open source PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL support, technology and training. In an earlier blog , the basics of the Crunchy PostgreSQL containers were presented demonstrating how easy and efficient it is to run PostgreSQL in containers such as Docker. In this follow up several new advanced features are highlighted from the Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes . The containers are open source and can be run either stand-alone, within Kubernetes, or within R...

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    Crunchy Announces Open Source Multi-Level Security Enabled PostgreSQL

    Crunchy

    Charleston, SC and Washington, DC - Crunchy Data Solutions, Inc. (Crunchy), a provider of enterprise PostgreSQL support, technology and training, today announced the release of Crunchy MLS PostgreSQL, an open source database distribution supporting multi-level security. Crunchy MLS PostgreSQL was developed to support the relational database requirements of the U.S. Government’s Centralized Super Computer Facility. Crunchy is proud to be a part of the Multi-Level Security Ecosystem that includes...

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    How open source delivers for government

    Crunchy

    Amid the well-deserved hype around the impact of cloud technology and big data analytics, it is possible that casual industry watchers may have missed the real story behind the recent wave of IT re-architecting. Enabling many of these recent, powerful trends is a newly validated embrace of open source software technology. The movement to OSS solutions is empowering system designers and solution architects to re-examine methodologies that evolved out of the legacy proprietary, closed source softw...

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    Red Hat | Crunchy Data Solutions: Database as a Service with OpenShift Enterprise

    Crunchy

    January 22, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm ET As part of Carahsoft's Open Source Essentials Series, join Jeff McCormick, Crunchy Data Architect and Matt Zager, Red Hat Solution Architect for a complimentary webinar on how OpenShift and PostgreSQL can enable agencies to benefit from an open source infrastructure. During this session our experts will cover: • How OpenShift platform-as-a-service technology can help agencies rapidly deploy open source database technology such as PostgreSQL • How Crunchy's P...

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    Deploying a PostgreSQL Pod on OpenShiftv3

    Crunchy

    Crunchy Data Architect Jeff McCormick's guest post on the Red Hat OpenShit Blog demonstrates how to deploy a PostgreSQL Pod, running as a Docker container, in OpenShift v3 and end up with a deployed solution. At Crunchy Data Solutions (Crunchy) we were excited to hear the recent announcement from the OpenShift team regarding the new public Origin repo integrating the work Red Hat has been doing for over twelve months in OpenShift Origin and related projects like Docker , Kubernetes , Ge...

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    Balancing Database Storage Latency And Throughput - PGCon 2014

    Crunchy

    Brought to you by Crunchy's Greg Smith. Learn more about Balancing Database Storage Latency And Throughput. Crunchy Data Solutions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dDsoG0Q6E

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