Postgres operator creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes
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Thomas Rosenstein 0affa9425a Improve sync responsiveness with background execution and context cancellation
This change improves the responsiveness of the operator when handling
deletion requests by running sync operations in the background and
using context cancellation to interrupt stuck operations.

Changes:
- Add context field to Cluster struct, passed through New()
- Add Cancel() method to cancel cluster's context
- Add StartSync/EndSync/NeedsResync for managing background sync state
- Run Sync() in a background goroutine so worker can process other events
- Add context-aware DB connection methods (initDbConnWithContext)
- Add RetryWithContext() that respects context cancellation
- Cancel cluster context immediately when DeletionTimestamp detected
- Use context-aware connections in syncRoles/syncDatabases
- StartSync/NeedsResync check context cancellation to prevent new syncs
  during deletion (no need for separate deleted flag)

Flow:
1. Sync event spawns background goroutine and returns immediately
2. If another sync arrives while one is running, needsResync flag is set
3. When sync completes, it checks needsResync and requeues if needed
4. Delete cancels context -> stuck DB operations return early -> mutex released
5. StartSync/NeedsResync return false when context cancelled
6. Delete proceeds without waiting for slow/stuck sync operations
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README.md

Postgres Operator

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The Postgres Operator delivers an easy to run highly-available PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes (K8s) powered by Patroni. It is configured only through Postgres manifests (CRDs) to ease integration into automated CI/CD pipelines with no access to Kubernetes API directly, promoting infrastructure as code vs manual operations.

Operator features

  • Rolling updates on Postgres cluster changes, incl. quick minor version updates
  • Live volume resize without pod restarts (AWS EBS, PVC)
  • Database connection pooling with PGBouncer
  • Support fast in place major version upgrade. Supports global upgrade of all clusters.
  • Pod protection during bootstrap phase and configurable maintenance windows
  • Restore and cloning Postgres clusters on AWS, GCS and Azure
  • Additionally logical backups to S3 or GCS bucket can be configured
  • Standby cluster from S3 or GCS WAL archive
  • Configurable for non-cloud environments
  • Basic credential and user management on K8s, eases application deployments
  • Support for custom TLS certificates
  • UI to create and edit Postgres cluster manifests
  • Compatible with OpenShift

PostgreSQL features

The Postgres Operator has been developed at Zalando and is being used in production for over five years.

Supported Postgres & K8s versions

Release Postgres versions K8s versions Golang
v1.15.0 13 → 17 1.27+ 1.25.3
v1.14.0 13 → 17 1.27+ 1.23.4
v1.13.0 12 → 16 1.27+ 1.22.5
v1.12.0 11 → 16 1.27+ 1.22.3
v1.11.0 11 → 16 1.27+ 1.21.7
v1.10.1 10 → 15 1.21+ 1.19.8

Getting started

For a quick first impression follow the instructions of this tutorial.

Supported setups of Postgres and Applications

Features Features

Documentation

There is a browser-friendly version of this documentation at postgres-operator.readthedocs.io