Date: 2015-11-27
Time: 15:35–16:20
Room: Seiler
Level: Intermediate
In recent years Zalando has adopted a decentralized setup for applications and databases. This has impacted our database engineers by transferring responsibility to small teams, each of which manages its own infrastructure. Decentralization is great for team autonomy, but can present challenges in terms of how to easily manage lots of PostgreSQL clusters. That’s why our team created Spilo: an open source HA-cluster (highly available PostgreSQL cluster).
This talk will show how Spilo simplifies Postgres cluster management while preserving team autonomy. By building upon streaming replication, Spilo provides a set of clusters that require no human interaction for many administration tasks and most failure scenarios; takes care of managing the number of servers (adding and removing them); and creates backups. It implements our own version of Patroni (https://github.com/zalando/patroni): a process, derived from Compose’s Governor, that governs the Postgres cluster (promoting and demoting) and updates information in etcd (the distributed consensus key/value store created by CoreOS). I’ll explore the architecture of Patroni implemented with Spilo, an ability to run in the cloud as well as in the traditional datacenter, or even your own laptop in a Docker image.
Finally, I’ll show how Spilo combines Patroni with cloud infrastructure architecture components (for example, AWS), adding autoscaling to run a HA-cluster and allowing AWS power users to create a new HA-cluster with very little effort. Spilo relies upon STUPS, Zalando’s open-source platform as a service (PaaS) for enabling multiple, autonomous teams to use AWS while remaining audit-compliant. By using Spilo and STUPS together, our engineers can create a new HA-cluster with just a few commands.
After attending this talk the audience will understand how they can also use Spilo, Patroni and STUPS to manage their Postgres clusters more efficiently while working autonomously.