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Comment by bogomipz | Hacker News Reader

>"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