PostgreSQL Planet in Ansible Galaxy
Ansible Galaxy is simply the easiest way of finding already written Ansible roles, creating and sharing your roles and jump into the galaxy of Ansible content!
Ansible Galaxy is simply the easiest way of finding already written Ansible roles, creating and sharing your roles and jump into the galaxy of Ansible content!
During the last October’s Italian PGDay and European PostgreSQL conference, my friend Marco Nenciarini and I had the pleasure to talk about a new open source plugin for PostgreSQL, called redislog. In that presentation (“Integrating PostgreSQL with Logstash for real-time monitoring”) we provided an example of our exploration/experimentation approach, with extensive and thorough coverage of […]
2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the release of version 1.5.1 of Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL.
Version 1.5.0 of Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL, has been released.
PgBouncer is a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL. PgBouncer 1.6 was announced on the 1st of August 2015. In this blog post we’ll talk about the major new improvements in PgBouncer.
The release of PostgreSQL 9.5 is imminent so the time has come to analyse what’s new in this latest version. A very interesting feature of version 9.5 is the ability to import a schema from a remote database, using Foreign Data Wrapper and the IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA command.
In the second part of the Automating Barman with Puppet series we configured, via Puppet, two virtual machines: a PostgreSQL server and a Barman server to back it up. However, human intervention was required to perform the SSH key exchange and most of the manifest was written to allow the servers to access each other. […]
In the first part of this article we configured Vagrant to execute two Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr virtual machines, respectively called pg and backup. In this second part we will look at how to use Puppet to set up and configure a PostgreSQL server on pg and back it up via Barman from the backup […]
This is not the first time that 2ndQuadrant has looked at Puppet. Gabriele Bartolini has already written an article in two parts on how to rapidly configure a PostgreSQL server through Puppet and Vagrant, accompanied by the release of the code used in the example on GitHub (http://github.com/2ndquadrant-it/vagrant-puppet-postgresql).
The 1.4.0 version of Barman adds new features such as incremental backup and automatic integration with pg_stat_archiver which aim to simplify the life of DBAs and system administrators.