patroni VS pg_auto_failover

Citus doesn't provide fault tolerance. Each shard is a monolithic PostgreSQL. To reduce downtime on failures, you can protect each shard with a standby database. As this is a complex configuration, Patroni can help. For this lab I'll use the Citus+Patroni docker-compose-citus.yml from https://github.com/zalando/patroni.git:

We have been using stolon + consul for years without issue in our swarm environments. It may also be possible with patroni.

one of the solutions which made it pretty simple for us to run postgresql in a ha environment (mostly in k8s, but works standalone as well) is zalandos patroni: https://github.com/zalando/patroni it's really solid and worked for us for a few years already.

or for k8s their operator: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator (docker image: https://github.com/zalando/spilo) we've also tried other operators which were easier to get started, but they failed miserably (crunchyrolls operator is basically based on the zalando one)

Hello. I am currently using this docker-compose model from Zalando repository. It does not include PgBouncer in its architecture by default. I've been trying to find a containerized implementation involving Patroni, HAProxy, Etcd and PgBouncer. I didn't find anything solid so far.

General purpose: Patroni - Set up your own etcd + HAProxy + Patroni + Postgres components and it'll generally manage itself after that.

I don't have a great answer for you except that it sounds like you are trying to create your own version of patroni. Is there a good reason to not just use patroni?

git clone https://github.com/zalando/patroni.git cd patroni docker build -t patroni . docker-compose up -d

I actually used Patroni on Openshift in my company. To be update with the latest version we created our helm chart.

pg_auto_failover makes it an absolute breeze. I cannot understand how it's not mentioned in the article.

I've been runnning it for 3 years with great success - https://github.com/hapostgres/pg_auto_failover/discussions/6...

Simplified and probably OK: pg_auto_failover - One Monitor/Witness node and minimum services otherwise. Good documentation to get started and not nearly as complex as Patroni.

There are tools that make managing such a system easier. Check out patroni, pg_auto_failover or PAF

This is /extremely/ uncharitable. It depends more on the project.

For example, both Go and .NET are very well written with comprehensible documentation. Many projects have also been absorbed by the Apache Foundation or other FOSS initiatives.

Every FANG has boat loads of teams working on umpteen different open source packages. The quality naturally varies.

Let me pick two more esoteric projects as a point of comparison.

Yandex Odyssey (https://github.com/yandex/odyssey) an advanced multi-threaded PostgreSQL connection pooler and request router. Figuring out how exactly and when to use this is not quite clear. There is no "getting started" guide for this package. There is barely any explanation for how it works or what it does.

pg_auto_failover (https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover) run by Citus (owned by Microsoft) monitors and manages automated failover for a Postgres cluster. This repo even has diagrams explaining the workflow and complete instructions.

Right, https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover has been on my reading list

My go to for this is https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover set up with ansible https://github.com/neuroforgede/pg\_auto\_failover\_ansible

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