How-to guides

vmk8s

The following guides cover key processes and common tasks for setting up and managing Charmed PostgreSQL on bare metal and virtual machines.

Deployment and setup

Available deployment methods and specialised setups:

Operations and maintenance

Essential operations to configure and manage a PostgreSQL cluster:

Backups and data migration

Configuration of storage providers and backup management for safety and data migration from a different cluster:

Other data migration guides:

Refresh (upgrade)

Instructions for performing an in-place application refresh:

Observability (COS)

Set up observability services like Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo through the Canonical Observability Stack (COS):

High availability & replication

Walkthrough of a cross-regional, cluster-cluster deployment and disaster recovery operations:

Use logical replication to copy a subset of data to another PostgreSQL cluster:

Extensions (plugins)

Troubleshooting and disaster recovery