postgres-operator

The keyword you're looking for here is Operator [1]. Kubernetes Operators are custom resources (e.g. Database, Load Balancer, ACME Certificate Entry) that manage themselves via a reconciliation loop. If you're looking for a specific piece of infrastructure, search for `<YOUR_TECHNOLOGY> + "operator"`, (e.g. "Postgres Operator", "Kafka Operator", etc...). Once you find an operator for the piece of infrastructure you need, just follow their instructions on how to set it up and configure it. Learning about how operators work is pretty neat and writing your own is fairly simple if you don't find an operator for your use case. Personally I run my personal cluster on K3s [2], secure it with cert-manager [3] and route traffic via the Traefik Operator [4]. Right now I use Litestream for all of my DB needs, but I've heard good things about the Pos

Not really replying to your question. But recently I got the occasion to work with https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator . It's a bit rough around the edges wit the v5, which is very recent, but overall I was really happy with it. I am still not using it in production but it's on the way.

> Incredible delay between postgres versions To be fair, it looks like GCP supported Postgres 13 (Nov 5, 2020) before AWS did (Nov 27, 2020) and AWS currently marks Postgres 13 as a preview. Maybe GCP had a large initial engineer-cost to support multiple versions of Postgres and now the incremental cost to add new versions is small? > It's just a lot of money to pay for a crashy, outdated version of Postgres. Have you looked at other options? I'm evaluating GCP SQL and the comments in this thread are scary. Seems like Aiven might be a good way to go. I've also briefly looked at CrunchyData's Postgres Operator [1] for Kubernetes but it's a lot of complexity I don't really want. [1]: https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator