Introducing CloudNativePG: A New Open Source Kubernetes Operator for Postgres
Today is the culmination of years of hard work at EDB, and, hopefully, the beginning of a new phase in the multi-decade evolution of Postgres and its community.
On April 21, 2022, EDB released CloudNativePG—an open source Kubernetes operator that manages highly available primary/standby cluster architectures for the Postgres database management system.
CloudNativePG is distributed under the Apache License 2.0, and is now owned and governed by a newly formed community of contributors to the project, built on solid principles and values inspired by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Among these are openness, fairness, inclusivity, technical excellence, “community over product/company,” built-in quality and built-in security. I’m part of the initial group of maintainers of the project, currently made up by the top six committers of the project within EDB.
Our adoption of this open and vendor-neutral model was influenced by our past experiences and the vision we have for the future of Postgres in Kubernetes. It reflects our direct contributions to the Postgres community for the past two decades, as well as our multi-year commitment to making CloudNativePG a graduated project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
