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PostgreSQL 16 Cluster (staging / production)

This directory provisions StellaOps PostgreSQL clusters with CloudNativePG (CNPG). It is pinned to Postgres 16.x, includes connection pooling (PgBouncer), Prometheus scraping, and S3-compatible backups. Everything is air-gap friendly: fetch the operator and images once, then render/apply manifests offline.

Targets

• Staging: stellaops-pg-stg (2 instances, 200 Gi data, WAL 64 Gi, PgBouncer x2)
• Production: stellaops-pg-prod (3 instances, 500 Gi data, WAL 128 Gi, PgBouncer x3)
• Namespace: platform-postgres

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes ≥ 1.27 with CSI storage classes fast-ssd (data) and fast-wal (WAL) available.
• CloudNativePG operator 1.23.x mirrored or downloaded to artifacts/cloudnative-pg-1.23.0.yaml.
• Images mirrored to your registry (example tags):
  • ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16.4
  • ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql-operator:1.23.0
  • ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/pgbouncer:1.23.0
• Secrets created from the templates under ops/devops/postgres/secrets/ (superuser, app user, backup credentials).

Render & Apply (deterministic)

# 1) Create namespace
kubectl apply -f ops/devops/postgres/namespace.yaml

# 2) Install operator (offline-friendly: use the pinned manifest you mirrored)
kubectl apply -f artifacts/cloudnative-pg-1.23.0.yaml

# 3) Create secrets (replace passwords/keys first)
kubectl apply -f ops/devops/postgres/secrets/example-superuser.yaml
kubectl apply -f ops/devops/postgres/secrets/example-app.yaml
kubectl apply -f ops/devops/postgres/secrets/example-backup-credentials.yaml

# 4) Apply the cluster and pooler for the target environment
kubectl apply -f ops/devops/postgres/cluster-staging.yaml
kubectl apply -f ops/devops/postgres/pooler-staging.yaml
# or
kubectl apply -f ops/devops/postgres/cluster-production.yaml
kubectl apply -f ops/devops/postgres/pooler-production.yaml

Connection Endpoints

• RW service: <cluster>-rw (e.g., stellaops-pg-stg-rw:5432)
• RO service: <cluster>-ro
• PgBouncer pooler: <pooler-name> (e.g., stellaops-pg-stg-pooler:6432)

Application connection string (matches library defaults): Host=stellaops-pg-stg-pooler;Port=6432;Username=stellaops_app;Password=<app-password>;Database=stellaops;Pooling=true;Timeout=15;CommandTimeout=30;Ssl Mode=Require;

Monitoring & Backups

• monitoring.enablePodMonitor: true exposes PodMonitor for Prometheus Operator.
• Barman/S3 backups are enabled by default; set backup.barmanObjectStore.destinationPath per env and populate stellaops-pg-backup credentials.
• WAL compression is gzip; retention is operator-managed (configure via Barman bucket policies).

Alignment with code defaults

• Session settings: UTC timezone, 30s statement_timeout, tenant context via set_config('app.current_tenant', ...).
• Connection pooler uses transaction mode with a server_reset_query that clears session state, keeping RepositoryBase deterministic.

Verification checklist

• kubectl get cluster -n platform-postgres shows Ready replicas matching instances.
• kubectl logs deploy/cnpg-controller-manager -n cnpg-system has no failing webhooks.
• kubectl get podmonitor -n platform-postgres returns entries for the cluster and pooler.
• psql "<rw-connection-string>" -c 'select 1' works from CI runner subnet.
• cnpg barman-cloud-backup-list shows successful full + WAL backups.

Offline notes

• Mirror the operator manifest and container images to the approved registry first; no live downloads occur at runtime.
• If Prometheus is not present, leave PodMonitor applied; it is inert without the CRD.