PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) with an emphasis on extensibility and on standards-compliance.
This chart bootstraps a PostgreSQL deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.
Bitnami charts can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters. This chart has been tested to work with NGINX Ingress, cert-manager, fluentd and Prometheus on top of the BKPR.
- Kubernetes 1.20+
- PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure
- Kanister controller version 0.111.0 installed in your cluster
- Kanctl CLI installed (https://docs.kanister.io/tooling.html#install-the-tools)
To install the chart with the release name my-release
:
$ helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
$ helm repo update
$ kubectl create ns postgres-test
$ helm install my-release --namespace postgres-test bitnami/postgresql
The command deploys PostgreSQL on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration.
Tip: List all releases using
helm list
In case, if you don't have Kanister
installed already, you can use following commands to do that.
Add Kanister Helm repository and install Kanister operator
$ helm repo add kanister https://charts.kanister.io
$ helm install kanister --namespace kanister --create-namespace kanister/kanister-operator --set image.tag=0.111.0
If you have deployed postgresql application with name other than my-release
and namespace other than postgres-test
, you need to modify the commands used below to use the correct name and namespace
Create Profile CR if not created already
$ kanctl create profile s3compliant --access-key <aws-access-key-id> \
--secret-key <aws-secret-key> \
--bucket <s3-bucket-name> --region <region-name> \
--namespace postgres-test
NOTE:
The command will configure a location where artifacts resulting from Kanister
data operations such as backup should go. This is stored as a profiles.cr.kanister.io
CustomResource (CR) which is then referenced in Kanister ActionSets. Every ActionSet
requires a Profile reference to complete the action. This CR (profiles.cr.kanister.io
)
can be shared between Kanister-enabled application instances.
NOTE: v2 Blueprints are experimental and are not supported with standalone Kanister.
Create Blueprint in the same namespace as the controller
$ kubectl create -f ./postgres-blueprint.yaml -n kanister
Once Postgres is running, you can populate it with some data. Let's add a table called "company" to a "test" database:
## Log in into postgresql container and get shell access
$ kubectl exec -ti my-release-postgresql-0 -n postgres-test -- bash
## use psql cli to add entries in postgresql database
$ PGPASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD} psql -U postgres
psql (11.6)
Type "help" for help.
## Create DATABASE
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE test;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres=# \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
-----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
test | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
(4 rows)
## Create table COMPANY in test database
postgres=# \c test
You are now connected to database "test" as user "postgres".
test=# CREATE TABLE COMPANY(
ID INT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
NAME TEXT NOT NULL,
AGE INT NOT NULL,
ADDRESS CHAR(50),
SALARY REAL,
CREATED_AT TIMESTAMP
);
CREATE TABLE
## Insert data into the table
test=# INSERT INTO COMPANY (ID,NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY,CREATED_AT) VALUES (10, 'Paul', 32, 'California', 20000.00, now());
INSERT 0 1
test=# select * from company;
id | name | age | address | salary | created_at
----+------+-----+----------------------------------------------------+--------+----------------------------
10 | Paul | 32 | California | 20000 | 2019-09-16 14:39:36.316065
(1 row)
## Add few more entries
test=# INSERT INTO COMPANY (ID,NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY,CREATED_AT) VALUES (20, 'Omkar', 32, 'California', 20000.00, now());
INSERT 0 1
test=# INSERT INTO COMPANY (ID,NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY,CREATED_AT) VALUES (30, 'Prasad', 32, 'California', 20000.00, now());
INSERT 0 1
test=# select * from company;
id | name | age | address | salary | created_at
----+-------+-----+----------------------------------------------------+--------+----------------------------
10 | Paul | 32 | California | 20000 | 2019-09-16 14:39:36.316065
20 | Omkar | 32 | California | 20000 | 2019-09-16 14:40:52.952459
30 | Omkar | 32 | California | 20000 | 2019-09-16 14:41:06.433487
You can now take a backup of the PostgresDB data using an ActionSet defining backup for this application. Create an ActionSet in the same namespace as the controller.
$ kubectl get profile -n postgres-test
NAME AGE
s3-profile-7d6wt 7m25s
$ kanctl create actionset --action backup --namespace kanister --blueprint postgres-bp --statefulset postgres-test/my-release-postgresql --profile postgres-test/s3-profile-7d6wt
actionset backup-llfb8 created
$ kubectl --namespace kanister get actionsets.cr.kanister.io
NAME PROGRESS LAST TRANSITION TIME STATE
backup-glptq 100.00 2022-12-08T18:14:09Z complete
# View the status of the actionset
$ kubectl --namespace kanister describe actionset backup-glptq
Let's say someone accidentally deleted the test database using the following command:
## Log in into postgresql container and get shell access
$ kubectl exec -ti my-release-postgresql-0 -n postgres-test -- bash
## use psql cli to add entries in postgresql database
$ PGPASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD} psql -U postgres
psql (11.5)
Type "help" for help.
## Drop database
postgres=# \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
-----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
test | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
(4 rows)
postgres=# DROP DATABASE test;
DROP DATABASE
postgres=# \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
-----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
(3 rows)
To restore the missing data, you should use the backup that you created before. An easy way to do this is to leverage kanctl
, a command-line tool that helps create ActionSets that depend on other ActionSets:
$ kanctl --namespace kanister create actionset --action restore --from backup-glptq
actionset restore-backup-glptq-6jzt4 created
## Check status
$ kubectl --namespace kanister get actionset restore-backup-glptq-6jzt4
NAME PROGRESS LAST TRANSITION TIME STATE
restore-backup-glptq-6jzt4 100.00 2022-12-08T18:16:50Z complete
Once the ActionSet status is set to "complete", you can see that the data has been successfully restored to PostgreSQL
## Log in into postgresql container and get shell access
$ kubectl exec -ti my-release-postgresql-0 -n postgres-test -- bash
## use psql cli to add entries in postgresql database
$ PGPASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD} psql -U postgres
psql (11.5)
Type "help" for help.
postgres=# \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
-----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
test | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
(4 rows)
postgres=# \c test;
You are now connected to database "test" as user "postgres".
test=# select * from company;
id | name | age | address | salary | created_at
----+--------+-----+----------------------------------------------------+--------+----------------------------
10 | Paul | 32 | California | 20000 | 2019-12-23 07:13:10.459499
20 | Omkar | 32 | California | 20000 | 2019-12-23 07:13:20.953172
30 | Prasad | 32 | California | 20000 | 2019-12-23 07:13:29.15668
(3 rows)
The artifacts created by the backup action can be cleaned up using the following command:
$ kanctl --namespace kanister create actionset --action delete --from backup-glptq --namespacetargets kanister
actionset delete-backup-glptq-cq6bw created
# View the status of the ActionSet
$ kubectl --namespace kanister get actionset delete-backup-glptq-cq6bw
NAME PROGRESS LAST TRANSITION TIME STATE
delete-backup-glptq-cq6bw 100.00 2022-12-08T18:16:50Z complete
If you run into any issues with the above commands, you can check the logs of the controller using:
$ kubectl --namespace kanister logs -l app=kanister-operator
you can also check events of the actionset
$ kubectl describe actionset <actionset-name> -n kanister
To uninstall/delete the my-release
deployment:
$ helm delete my-release -n postgres-test
Remove Blueprint, Profile CR and ActionSet
$ kubectl delete blueprints.cr.kanister.io postgres-bp -n kanister
$ kubectl get profiles.cr.kanister.io -n postgres-test
NAME AGE
s3-profile-7d6wt 17m
$ kubectl delete profiles.cr.kanister.io ss3-profile-7d6w -n postgres-test
$ kubectl delete actionset backup-glptq restore-backup-glptq-6jzt4 delete-backup-glptq-cq6bw -n kanister