by Sergey Pronin | Jul 29, 2025 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This post was originally published in 2023, and we’ve updated it in 2025 for clarity and relevance. Downtime is more than an inconvenience. For many organizations, even a short outage can mean lost revenue, broken customer trust, or compliance issues. PostgreSQL is a...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 14, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This blog was originally published in 2021 and updated in 2025. Running PostgreSQL in production means balancing high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability without adding unnecessary complexity. Kubernetes helps by providing a consistent way to orchestrate...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 13, 2025 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This post was originally published in 2022, and we’ve updated it in 2025 for clarity and relevance. PostgreSQL was initially released in 1996, when cloud-native was not even a term. According to DB engines, it is currently the fourth most popular relational open...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 1, 2025 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This post was originally published in 2021 and was updated in 2025. Kubernetes adoption keeps climbing, and databases are often one of the last workloads teams try to move. The reasons are clear: PostgreSQL is critical, downtime isn’t an option, and migration can feel...
by Sergey Pronin | Jun 29, 2025 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This post was originally published in 2023 and was updated in 2025. PostgreSQL is a natural fit for modern cloud-native environments, but running it on Kubernetes can be more complicated than it looks. From provisioning to backups, there’s a lot to get right before...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 4, 2024 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
I wrote a blog post in the past about a generic approach on how to expose databases in Kubernetes with Ingress controllers. Today, we will dive deeper into PostgreSQL with ingress and also review two different ways that can be taken to expose the TCP service. The goal...
by Sergey Pronin | Aug 5, 2024 | Open Source, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Generative AI is top of mind for many engineers. The questions of how it can be applied to solve business problems and boost productivity are still up in the air. Recently I wrote a blog post about the impact of AI on platform engineers, where I talked about various...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 8, 2024 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL major versions are released every year, with each release delivering better performance and new features. With such rapid innovation, it is inevitable that there will be a need to upgrade from one version to another. Upgrade procedures are usually very...
by Sergey Pronin | May 8, 2024 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Coroot, an open source observability tool powered by eBPF, went generally available with version 1.0 last week. As this tool is cloud-native, we were curious to know how it can help troubleshoot databases on Kubernetes. In this blog post, we will see how to quickly...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 4, 2024 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona Operator for PostgreSQL is now Red Hat OpenShift certified. You can now use Percona Operator for PostgreSQL to deploy and manage highly available PostgreSQL clusters on OpenShift. Certification guarantees that our Operator meets standards for interoperability,...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 9, 2024 | Open Source, PostgreSQL
2023 was the year of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A lot of companies are thinking about how they can improve user experience with AI, and the most usual first step is to use company data (internal docs, ticketing systems, etc.) to answer customer questions faster and...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 19, 2023 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
In the world of modern DevOps, deployment automation tools have become essential for streamlining processes and ensuring consistent, reliable deployments. GitOps and ArgoCD are at the cutting edge of deployment automation, making it easy to deploy complex applications...
by Sergey Pronin | Jun 30, 2023 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. The solution is 100% open source and automates the deployment and management of PostgreSQL clusters on...
by Sergey Pronin | Jun 20, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Developers need an efficient, reliable way to run their Django applications with a robust PostgreSQL. Percona Operator for PostgreSQL offers a powerful solution for managing and scaling PostgreSQL databases in a Kubernetes environment, making it an ideal choice for...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 20, 2023 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL, Security
Data-at-rest encryption is essential for compliance with regulations that require the protection of sensitive data. Encryption can help organizations comply with regulations and avoid legal consequences and fines. It is also critical for securing sensitive data and...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 15, 2022 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Avoid vendor lock-in, provide a private Database-as-a-Service for internal teams, quickly deploy-test-destroy databases with CI/CD pipeline – these are some of the most common use cases for running databases on Kubernetes with operators. Percona Operator for...
by Sergey Pronin | Dec 8, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona in 2021 is heavily invested in making the PostgreSQL ecosystem better and contributing to it from different angles: We have created pg_stat_monitor – query performance monitoring tool for PostgreSQL Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Operator was...
by Sergey Pronin | May 26, 2021 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona is championing open source database software and we are committed to running our products on Kubernetes. We don’t only want to run the software, but make sure that the database is highly available, secure, and follows best practices. We also focus on day-2...
