Kubernetes is an orchestration platform that allows containers to be deployed in an automated and resilient way, abstracting many of the manual steps of rolling upgrades and scaling. You will usually want to deploy database applications (like PostgreSQL) as well, so that your applications can leverage their features within the cluster. Deploying in a Kubernetes cluster lets you build out your cloud-native PostgreSQL instance.
Read on for simple steps for deploying and running a PostgreSQL database on Kubernetes. Learn how to set up a single PostgreSQL instance for testing, and then get a sense of an advanced use case in which there are a few options for deploying a more configurable instance of PostgreSQL. ...read more!
