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Comment by pritambarhate | Hacker News Reader

It would be good to know the size and scale of these databases.

I don’t have actual numbers but I did a quick search and most are a few GiB to tens of GiB, although there are a few hundreds of GiB large. In practice size is not the limiting factor, IOPS are because they all use gp2 EBS volumes. Databases that have huge IOPS requirements are still deployed outside of Kubernetes and run in i3 instances. In that case they still use spilo though, so basically the same system for backups and automatic failover as on Kubernetes.

That being said we also have an ElasticSearch operator that is used to deploy ElasticSearch on Kubernetes, there nodes running on i3 instances and the corresponding instance storage is used. Although used in production that’s still very new and sadly not open source.

>"In that case they still use spilo though, so basically the same system for backups and automatic failover as on Kubernetes."

What is "spilo"? I am not familiar with this term. Thanks.

Spilo[1] is a Docker image that provides postgres bundled with Patroni[2].

The postgres-operator I linked earlier but also our setup on AWS (with one image per EC2 instance) uses that to actually run Postgres.

  [1]: https://github.com/zalando/spilo 
  [2]: https://github.com/zalando/patroni

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