cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

CloudNativePG is an open-source Kubernetes operator that manages the full lifecycle of highly available PostgreSQL clusters using native streaming replication. It integrates directly with the Kubernetes API to automate deployment, failover, backups, and declarative role management without external HA tools like Patroni.

Use cases

• run postgresql on kubernetes
• automated failover for postgres clusters
• manage postgres databases declaratively with gitops
• set up high availability postgres with primary/standby replication
• backup and disaster recovery for postgres in k8s
• monitor postgres with prometheus
• self-healing postgres database clusters

When to choose

• you run PostgreSQL workloads on Kubernetes and want a CNCF-backed, actively maintained operator
• you want Kubernetes-native HA without Patroni, repmgr, or Stolon
• your team uses GitOps and declarative configuration for database management
• you need integrated backup, TLS, monitoring, and rolling updates out of the box

When to avoid

• your databases run on VMs or bare metal outside Kubernetes
• you need multi-database support beyond PostgreSQL
• you have no Kubernetes cluster and just want a simple Postgres deployment
• you require fine-grained control via external HA tooling you already operate

Facets

service · maturity stable

database deployment monitoring backup configuration-management databases cloud-computing self-hosted go cloud self-hosted postgresql kubernetes-operator high-availability failover replication disaster-recovery gitops prometheus-exporter kubectl-plugin cnpg devops containers kubernetes docker

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