PgConf.Russia 2020

An enterprise-grade PostgreSQL requires many complementary technologies to the database core: high availability and automated failover, monitoring and alerting, centralized logging, connection pooling, etc. That is, a stack of components around PostgreSQL. Kubernetes has enabled a new model to deploy software abstracting away the infrastructure. However, containers are not lightweight VMs, and the packing of software paradigms that work on VMs are not valid on containers/Kubernetes. How should be PostgreSQL and its stack be deployed on Kubernetes? Enter StackGres. An open source software that is the result of re-engineering PostgreSQL to become cloud native. Join this talk to learn and see demos of how to generate PostgreSQL minimal containers; how the sidecar pattern is used (abused) to integrate PostgreSQL’s stack components, and how the networking and storage are handled. More info: stackgres.io.

Walk-through of extending PostgreSQL with a user-defined type. The journey begins from the basics, from creating simple domain types over existing types, and continues to implementing a full-blown datatype from scratch in C.

PostgreSQL's advanced index types, GiST, GIN, and SP-GiST, are covered in enough detail to give an understanding of what each of them is good for. Support functions for each of them are shown for the example 'color' datatype.

Kubernetes is the new way of deploying software, programmatically, on almost any infrastructure (be it cloud or on-prem). But is a complex beast. How to get started? How to dive deeper? What are the specific best-practices and special hints for Postgres DBAs dealing with Kubernetes? Join this half-day tutorial to learn, practically, among other topics:

• How to quickly get started with Kubernetes
• Manage storage
• Manage services, networking and ingress/egress
• How to make Postgres cloud-native in Kubernetes
• Do a show-run of existing Postgres operators, including Zalando, CrunchyData and StackGres.

This tutorial is very practical. BYOL! (Bring Your Own Laptop). With Kubernetes installed! (check microk8s, minikube or k3s if you don’t have any installed.

Patroni и Stolon - два наиболее известных и продвинутых решения для оркестрации PostgreSQL и обеспечения выскокой доступности (автофейловера) кластеров Leader-Followers конфигурации. Однако инженеры, переходящие со старых проверенных решений (Corosync&Pacemaker) и встроенных из других СУБД, сталкиваются со сложностями в инсталляции этих инструментов и непониманием ролей каждого из компонентов. В данном мастер-классе будет рассмотрен типичный процесс инсталляции кластеров Patroni и Stolon на виртуальных машинах (не в контейнерах), а также разобрано поведение этих кластеров при различных фейлах в инфраструктуре. Весь процесс будет демонстрироваться на трёх виртальных машинах под управлением vagrant с использованием предварительно подготовленных образов. При желании слушатель может следовать за процессом, предварительно подготовив своё окружение.