Postgres on Kubernetes, with Álvaro Hernández

Álvaro Hernández is the founder and CEO of OnGres a company that provides among other things a distribution of Postgres that runs on Kubernetes, called "StackGres". Álvaro is also an AWS Data Hero and a passionate database and open source software developer

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Note: This episode was edited on May 17th to remove a chatter segment from episode 219, which had been mistakenly edited into it.

News of the week

Kubernetes code cleanup

• KEP-2395: Removing In-Tree Cloud Provider Code - GitHub KEP Readme

• Remove gcp in-tree cloud provider and credential providers - GitHub PR

• Spotlight on SIG Cloud Provider - Blog

• The Future of Cloud Providers in Kubernetes - Blog

• Kubernetes 1.29: Cloud Provider Integrations Are Now Separate Components - Blog

Google I/O

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WG-Serving on GitHub

DoK Community Ambassador Applications

Links from the interview

Álvaro Hernández:

• LinkedIn

• Twitter/X

OnGres

PostgreSQL

Stackgres.io

Stackgres github

Kubernetes

Pg_repack

Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Community

Data On Kubernetes 2022 Report

Data on Kubernetes Whitepaper - Database Patterns - by CNCF TAG Storage

Istio

Apache Zookeeper

Strimzi - CNCF Project for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

Postgres extensions

The Kubernetes Operator Pattern

Presentation about PostreSQL Hooks from PostgreSQL wiki

OCI - Open Container Initiative

Why Postgres Extensions should be packaged and distributed as OCI images