u/asdfhomerowin r/PostgreSQL • Recommends
On “Running postgresql in a docker container for production purposes”
…fact totally feasible to meet uptime, durability, fault tolerant levels of traditional methods.
Josh Berkus - former core contributor to Postgres, employee at RedHat working on Kubernetes has been working on this a lot. We chatted about it at DevOps days and he opened my mind to it.
Looks like he has a talk about it from December, check it out: link to this video
All that said, I still think it's best to go traditional long lived pet server approach, or outsource that shit to Amazon and RDS. Data tier uptime, Ha, FT, DR is serious business and unless you are really willing to do the hard work to understand your risks and mitigate those risks, kick it old school.…