k8s-manifests/rds/base/charts/postgresql

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) with an emphasis on extensibility and on standards-compliance.

For HA, please see this repo

TL;DR

$ helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
$ helm install my-release bitnami/postgresql

Introduction

This chart bootstraps a PostgreSQL deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

Bitnami charts can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters. This chart has been tested to work with NGINX Ingress, cert-manager, fluentd and Prometheus on top of the BKPR.

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.12+
• Helm 3.1.0
• PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

$ helm install my-release bitnami/postgresql

The command deploys PostgreSQL on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The Parameters section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

Tip: List all releases using helm list

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the my-release deployment:

$ helm delete my-release

The command removes all the Kubernetes components but PVC's associated with the chart and deletes the release.

To delete the PVC's associated with my-release:

$ kubectl delete pvc -l release=my-release

Note

: Deleting the PVC's will delete postgresql data as well. Please be cautious before doing it.

Parameters

Global parameters

Name	Description	Value
global.imageRegistry	Global Docker image registry	""
global.imagePullSecrets	Global Docker registry secret names as an array	[]
global.storageClass	Global StorageClass for Persistent Volume(s)	""
global.postgresql.postgresqlDatabase	PostgreSQL database (overrides postgresqlDatabase)	""
global.postgresql.postgresqlUsername	PostgreSQL username (overrides postgresqlUsername)	""
global.postgresql.existingSecret	Name of existing secret to use for PostgreSQL passwords (overrides existingSecret)	""
global.postgresql.postgresqlPassword	PostgreSQL admin password (overrides postgresqlPassword)	""
global.postgresql.servicePort	PostgreSQL port (overrides service.port	""
global.postgresql.replicationPassword	Replication user password (overrides replication.password)	""

Common parameters

Name	Description	Value
nameOverride	String to partially override common.names.fullname template (will maintain the release name)	""
fullnameOverride	String to fully override common.names.fullname template	""
extraDeploy	Array of extra objects to deploy with the release (evaluated as a template)	[]
commonLabels	Add labels to all the deployed resources	{}
commonAnnotations	Add annotations to all the deployed resources	{}
diagnosticMode.enabled	Enable diagnostic mode (all probes will be disabled and the command will be overridden)	false
diagnosticMode.command	Command to override all containers in the deployment	["sleep"]
diagnosticMode.args	Args to override all containers in the deployment	["infinity"]

PostgreSQL parameters

Name	Description	Value
image.registry	PostgreSQL image registry	docker.io
image.repository	PostgreSQL image repository	bitnami/postgresql
image.tag	PostgreSQL image tag (immutable tags are recommended)	11.14.0-debian-10-r17
image.pullPolicy	PostgreSQL image pull policy	IfNotPresent
image.pullSecrets	Specify image pull secrets	[]
image.debug	Specify if debug values should be set	false
volumePermissions.enabled	Enable init container that changes volume permissions in the data directory (for cases where the default k8s runAsUser and fsUser values do not work)	false
volumePermissions.image.registry	Init container volume-permissions image registry	docker.io
volumePermissions.image.repository	Init container volume-permissions image repository	bitnami/bitnami-shell
volumePermissions.image.tag	Init container volume-permissions image tag (immutable tags are recommended)	10-debian-10-r265
volumePermissions.image.pullPolicy	Init container volume-permissions image pull policy	IfNotPresent
volumePermissions.image.pullSecrets	Init container volume-permissions image pull secrets	[]
volumePermissions.securityContext.runAsUser	User ID for the init container	0
schedulerName	Use an alternate scheduler, e.g. "stork".	""
lifecycleHooks	for the PostgreSQL container to automate configuration before or after startup	{}
securityContext.enabled	Enable security context	true
securityContext.fsGroup	Group ID for the pod	1001
containerSecurityContext.enabled	Enable container security context	true
containerSecurityContext.runAsUser	User ID for the container	1001
serviceAccount.enabled	Enable service account (Note: Service Account will only be automatically created if serviceAccount.name is not set)	false
serviceAccount.name	Name of an already existing service account. Setting this value disables the automatic service account creation	""
serviceAccount.autoMount	Auto-mount the service account token in the pod	false
psp.create	Whether to create a PodSecurityPolicy. WARNING: PodSecurityPolicy is deprecated in Kubernetes v1.21 or later, unavailable in v1.25 or later	false
rbac.create	Create Role and RoleBinding (required for PSP to work)	false
replication.enabled	Enable replication	false
replication.user	Replication user	repl_user
replication.password	Replication user password	repl_password
replication.readReplicas	Number of read replicas replicas	1
replication.synchronousCommit	Set synchronous commit mode. Allowed values: on, remote_apply, remote_write, local and off	off
replication.numSynchronousReplicas	Number of replicas that will have synchronous replication. Note: Cannot be greater than replication.readReplicas.	0
replication.applicationName	Cluster application name. Useful for advanced replication settings	my_application
replication.singleService	Create one service connecting to all read-replicas	true
replication.uniqueServices	Create a unique service for each independent read-replica	false
postgresqlPostgresPassword	PostgreSQL admin password (used when postgresqlUsername is not postgres, in which casepostgres is the admin username)	""
postgresqlUsername	PostgreSQL user (has superuser privileges if username is postgres)	postgres
postgresqlPassword	PostgreSQL user password	""
existingSecret	Name of existing secret to use for PostgreSQL passwords	""
usePasswordFile	Mount PostgreSQL secret as a file instead of passing environment variable	false
postgresqlDatabase	PostgreSQL database	""
postgresqlDataDir	PostgreSQL data dir folder	/bitnami/postgresql/data
extraEnv	An array to add extra environment variables	[]
extraEnvVarsCM	Name of a Config Map containing extra environment variables	""
postgresqlInitdbArgs	PostgreSQL initdb extra arguments	""
postgresqlInitdbWalDir	Specify a custom location for the PostgreSQL transaction log	""
postgresqlConfiguration	PostgreSQL configuration	{}
postgresqlExtendedConf	Extended Runtime Config Parameters (appended to main or default configuration)	{}
primaryAsStandBy.enabled	Whether to enable current cluster's primary as standby server of another cluster or not	false
primaryAsStandBy.primaryHost	The Host of replication primary in the other cluster	""
primaryAsStandBy.primaryPort	The Port of replication primary in the other cluster	""
pgHbaConfiguration	PostgreSQL client authentication configuration	""
configurationConfigMap	ConfigMap with PostgreSQL configuration	""
extendedConfConfigMap	ConfigMap with PostgreSQL extended configuration	""
initdbScripts	Dictionary of initdb scripts	{}
initdbScriptsConfigMap	ConfigMap with scripts to be run at first boot	""
initdbScriptsSecret	Secret with scripts to be run at first boot (in case it contains sensitive information)	""
initdbUser	Specify the PostgreSQL username to execute the initdb scripts	""
initdbPassword	Specify the PostgreSQL password to execute the initdb scripts	""
containerPorts.postgresql	PostgreSQL container port	5432
audit.logHostname	Log client hostnames	false
audit.logConnections	Add client log-in operations to the log file	false
audit.logDisconnections	Add client log-outs operations to the log file	false
audit.pgAuditLog	Add operations to log using the pgAudit extension	""
audit.pgAuditLogCatalog	Log catalog using pgAudit	off
audit.clientMinMessages	Message log level to share with the user	error
audit.logLinePrefix	Template for log line prefix (default if not set)	""
audit.logTimezone	Timezone for the log timestamps	""
postgresqlSharedPreloadLibraries	Shared preload libraries (comma-separated list)	pgaudit
postgresqlMaxConnections	Maximum total connections	""
postgresqlPostgresConnectionLimit	Maximum connections for the postgres user	""
postgresqlDbUserConnectionLimit	Maximum connections for the non-admin user	""
postgresqlTcpKeepalivesInterval	TCP keepalives interval	""
postgresqlTcpKeepalivesIdle	TCP keepalives idle	""
postgresqlTcpKeepalivesCount	TCP keepalives count	""
postgresqlStatementTimeout	Statement timeout	""
postgresqlPghbaRemoveFilters	Comma-separated list of patterns to remove from the pg_hba.conf file	""
terminationGracePeriodSeconds	Seconds the pod needs to terminate gracefully	""
ldap.enabled	Enable LDAP support	false
ldap.url	LDAP URL beginning in the form ldap[s]://host[:port]/basedn	""
ldap.server	IP address or name of the LDAP server.	""
ldap.port	Port number on the LDAP server to connect to	""
ldap.prefix	String to prepend to the user name when forming the DN to bind	""
ldap.suffix	String to append to the user name when forming the DN to bind	""
ldap.baseDN	Root DN to begin the search for the user in	""
ldap.bindDN	DN of user to bind to LDAP	""
ldap.bind_password	Password for the user to bind to LDAP	""
ldap.search_attr	Attribute to match against the user name in the search	""
ldap.search_filter	The search filter to use when doing search+bind authentication	""
ldap.scheme	Set to ldaps to use LDAPS	""
ldap.tls	Set to 1 to use TLS encryption	""
service.type	Kubernetes Service type	ClusterIP
service.clusterIP	Static clusterIP or None for headless services	""
service.port	PostgreSQL port	5432
service.nodePort	Specify the nodePort value for the LoadBalancer and NodePort service types	""
service.annotations	Annotations for PostgreSQL service	{}
service.loadBalancerIP	Load balancer IP if service type is LoadBalancer	""
service.externalTrafficPolicy	Enable client source IP preservation	Cluster
service.loadBalancerSourceRanges	Addresses that are allowed when service is LoadBalancer	[]
shmVolume.enabled	Enable emptyDir volume for /dev/shm for primary and read replica(s) Pod(s)	true
shmVolume.chmod.enabled	Set to true to chmod 777 /dev/shm on a initContainer (ignored if volumePermissions.enabled is false)	true
shmVolume.sizeLimit	Set this to enable a size limit on the shm tmpfs. Note that the size of the tmpfs counts against container's memory limit	""
persistence.enabled	Enable persistence using PVC	true
persistence.existingClaim	Provide an existing PersistentVolumeClaim, the value is evaluated as a template.	""
persistence.mountPath	The path the volume will be mounted at, useful when using different	/bitnami/postgresql
persistence.subPath	The subdirectory of the volume to mount to	""
persistence.storageClass	PVC Storage Class for PostgreSQL volume	""
persistence.accessModes	PVC Access Mode for PostgreSQL volume	["ReadWriteOnce"]
persistence.size	PVC Storage Request for PostgreSQL volume	8Gi
persistence.annotations	Annotations for the PVC	{}
persistence.selector	Selector to match an existing Persistent Volume (this value is evaluated as a template)	{}
updateStrategy.type	updateStrategy for PostgreSQL StatefulSet and its reads StatefulSets	RollingUpdate
primary.podAffinityPreset	PostgreSQL primary pod affinity preset. Ignored if primary.affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	""
primary.podAntiAffinityPreset	PostgreSQL primary pod anti-affinity preset. Ignored if primary.affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	soft
primary.nodeAffinityPreset.type	PostgreSQL primary node affinity preset type. Ignored if primary.affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	""
primary.nodeAffinityPreset.key	PostgreSQL primary node label key to match Ignored if primary.affinity is set.	""
primary.nodeAffinityPreset.values	PostgreSQL primary node label values to match. Ignored if primary.affinity is set.	[]
primary.affinity	Affinity for PostgreSQL primary pods assignment	{}
primary.nodeSelector	Node labels for PostgreSQL primary pods assignment	{}
primary.tolerations	Tolerations for PostgreSQL primary pods assignment	[]
primary.extraPodSpec	Optionally specify extra PodSpec	{}
primary.labels	Map of labels to add to the statefulset (postgresql primary)	{}
primary.annotations	Annotations for PostgreSQL primary pods	{}
primary.podLabels	Map of labels to add to the pods (postgresql primary)	{}
primary.podAnnotations	Map of annotations to add to the pods (postgresql primary)	{}
primary.priorityClassName	Priority Class to use for each pod (postgresql primary)	""
primary.extraInitContainers	Extra init containers to add to the pods (postgresql primary)	[]
primary.extraVolumeMounts	Extra volume mounts to add to the pods (postgresql primary)	[]
primary.extraVolumes	Extra volumes to add to the pods (postgresql primary)	[]
primary.sidecars	Extra containers to the pod	[]
primary.service.type	Allows using a different service type for primary	""
primary.service.nodePort	Allows using a different nodePort for primary	""
primary.service.clusterIP	Allows using a different clusterIP for primary	""
readReplicas.podAffinityPreset	PostgreSQL read only pod affinity preset. Ignored if primary.affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	""
readReplicas.podAntiAffinityPreset	PostgreSQL read only pod anti-affinity preset. Ignored if primary.affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	soft
readReplicas.nodeAffinityPreset.type	PostgreSQL read only node affinity preset type. Ignored if primary.affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	""
readReplicas.nodeAffinityPreset.key	PostgreSQL read only node label key to match Ignored if primary.affinity is set.	""
readReplicas.nodeAffinityPreset.values	PostgreSQL read only node label values to match. Ignored if primary.affinity is set.	[]
readReplicas.affinity	Affinity for PostgreSQL read only pods assignment	{}
readReplicas.nodeSelector	Node labels for PostgreSQL read only pods assignment	{}
readReplicas.tolerations	Tolerations for PostgreSQL read only pods assignment	[]
readReplicas.topologySpreadConstraints	Topology Spread Constraints for pod assignment spread across your cluster among failure-domains. Evaluated as a template	[]
readReplicas.extraPodSpec	Optionally specify extra PodSpec	{}
readReplicas.labels	Map of labels to add to the statefulsets (postgresql readReplicas)	{}
readReplicas.annotations	Annotations for PostgreSQL read only pods	{}
readReplicas.podLabels	Map of labels to add to the pods (postgresql readReplicas)	{}
readReplicas.podAnnotations	Map of annotations to add to the pods (postgresql readReplicas)	{}
readReplicas.priorityClassName	Priority Class to use for each pod (postgresql readReplicas)	""
readReplicas.extraInitContainers	Extra init containers to add to the pods (postgresql readReplicas)	[]
readReplicas.extraVolumeMounts	Extra volume mounts to add to the pods (postgresql readReplicas)	[]
readReplicas.extraVolumes	Extra volumes to add to the pods (postgresql readReplicas)	[]
readReplicas.sidecars	Extra containers to the pod	[]
readReplicas.service.type	Allows using a different service type for readReplicas	""
readReplicas.service.nodePort	Allows using a different nodePort for readReplicas	""
readReplicas.service.clusterIP	Allows using a different clusterIP for readReplicas	""
readReplicas.persistence.enabled	Whether to enable PostgreSQL read replicas replicas persistence	true
readReplicas.resources	CPU/Memory resource requests/limits override for readReplicass. Will fallback to values.resources if not defined.	{}
resources.requests	The requested resources for the container	{}
networkPolicy.enabled	Enable creation of NetworkPolicy resources. Only Ingress traffic is filtered for now.	false
networkPolicy.allowExternal	Don't require client label for connections	true
networkPolicy.explicitNamespacesSelector	A Kubernetes LabelSelector to explicitly select namespaces from which ingress traffic could be allowed	{}
startupProbe.enabled	Enable startupProbe	false
startupProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Initial delay seconds for startupProbe	30
startupProbe.periodSeconds	Period seconds for startupProbe	15
startupProbe.timeoutSeconds	Timeout seconds for startupProbe	5
startupProbe.failureThreshold	Failure threshold for startupProbe	10
startupProbe.successThreshold	Success threshold for startupProbe	1
livenessProbe.enabled	Enable livenessProbe	true
livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Initial delay seconds for livenessProbe	30
livenessProbe.periodSeconds	Period seconds for livenessProbe	10
livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds	Timeout seconds for livenessProbe	5
livenessProbe.failureThreshold	Failure threshold for livenessProbe	6
livenessProbe.successThreshold	Success threshold for livenessProbe	1
readinessProbe.enabled	Enable readinessProbe	true
readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Initial delay seconds for readinessProbe	5
readinessProbe.periodSeconds	Period seconds for readinessProbe	10
readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds	Timeout seconds for readinessProbe	5
readinessProbe.failureThreshold	Failure threshold for readinessProbe	6
readinessProbe.successThreshold	Success threshold for readinessProbe	1
customStartupProbe	Override default startup probe	{}
customLivenessProbe	Override default liveness probe	{}
customReadinessProbe	Override default readiness probe	{}
tls.enabled	Enable TLS traffic support	false
tls.autoGenerated	Generate automatically self-signed TLS certificates	false
tls.preferServerCiphers	Whether to use the server's TLS cipher preferences rather than the client's	true
tls.certificatesSecret	Name of an existing secret that contains the certificates	""
tls.certFilename	Certificate filename	""
tls.certKeyFilename	Certificate key filename	""
tls.certCAFilename	CA Certificate filename	""
tls.crlFilename	File containing a Certificate Revocation List	""
metrics.enabled	Start a prometheus exporter	false
metrics.resources	Prometheus exporter container resources	{}
metrics.service.type	Kubernetes Service type	ClusterIP
metrics.service.annotations	Additional annotations for metrics exporter pod	{}
metrics.service.loadBalancerIP	loadBalancerIP if redis metrics service type is LoadBalancer	""
metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled	Set this to true to create ServiceMonitor for Prometheus operator	false
metrics.serviceMonitor.additionalLabels	Additional labels that can be used so ServiceMonitor will be discovered by Prometheus	{}
metrics.serviceMonitor.namespace	Optional namespace in which to create ServiceMonitor	""
metrics.serviceMonitor.interval	Scrape interval. If not set, the Prometheus default scrape interval is used	""
metrics.serviceMonitor.scrapeTimeout	Scrape timeout. If not set, the Prometheus default scrape timeout is used	""
metrics.serviceMonitor.relabelings	RelabelConfigs to apply to samples before scraping	[]
metrics.serviceMonitor.metricRelabelings	MetricRelabelConfigs to apply to samples before ingestion	[]
metrics.prometheusRule.enabled	Set this to true to create prometheusRules for Prometheus operator	false
metrics.prometheusRule.additionalLabels	Additional labels that can be used so prometheusRules will be discovered by Prometheus	{}
metrics.prometheusRule.namespace	namespace where prometheusRules resource should be created	""
metrics.prometheusRule.rules	Create specified Rules	[]
metrics.image.registry	PostgreSQL Exporter image registry	docker.io
metrics.image.repository	PostgreSQL Exporter image repository	bitnami/postgres-exporter
metrics.image.tag	PostgreSQL Exporter image tag (immutable tags are recommended)	0.10.0-debian-10-r133
metrics.image.pullPolicy	PostgreSQL Exporter image pull policy	IfNotPresent
metrics.image.pullSecrets	Specify image pull secrets	[]
metrics.customMetrics	Define additional custom metrics	{}
metrics.extraEnvVars	Extra environment variables to add to postgres-exporter	[]
metrics.securityContext.enabled	Enable security context for metrics	false
metrics.securityContext.runAsUser	User ID for the container for metrics	1001
metrics.livenessProbe.enabled	Enable livenessProbe	true
metrics.livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Initial delay seconds for livenessProbe	5
metrics.livenessProbe.periodSeconds	Period seconds for livenessProbe	10
metrics.livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds	Timeout seconds for livenessProbe	5
metrics.livenessProbe.failureThreshold	Failure threshold for livenessProbe	6
metrics.livenessProbe.successThreshold	Success threshold for livenessProbe	1
metrics.readinessProbe.enabled	Enable readinessProbe	true
metrics.readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Initial delay seconds for readinessProbe	5
metrics.readinessProbe.periodSeconds	Period seconds for readinessProbe	10
metrics.readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds	Timeout seconds for readinessProbe	5
metrics.readinessProbe.failureThreshold	Failure threshold for readinessProbe	6
metrics.readinessProbe.successThreshold	Success threshold for readinessProbe	1

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example,

$ helm install my-release \
  --set postgresqlPassword=secretpassword,postgresqlDatabase=my-database \
    bitnami/postgresql

The above command sets the PostgreSQL postgres account password to secretpassword. Additionally it creates a database named my-database.

NOTE: Once this chart is deployed, it is not possible to change the application's access credentials, such as usernames or passwords, using Helm. To change these application credentials after deployment, delete any persistent volumes (PVs) used by the chart and re-deploy it, or use the application's built-in administrative tools if available.

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,

$ helm install my-release -f values.yaml bitnami/postgresql

Tip: You can use the default values.yaml

Configuration and installation details

Rolling VS Immutable tags

It is strongly recommended to use immutable tags in a production environment. This ensures your deployment does not change automatically if the same tag is updated with a different image.

Bitnami will release a new chart updating its containers if a new version of the main container, significant changes, or critical vulnerabilities exist.

Customizing primary and read replica services in a replicated configuration

At the top level, there is a service object which defines the services for both primary and readReplicas. For deeper customization, there are service objects for both the primary and read types individually. This allows you to override the values in the top level service object so that the primary and read can be of different service types and with different clusterIPs / nodePorts. Also in the case you want the primary and read to be of type nodePort, you will need to set the nodePorts to different values to prevent a collision. The values that are deeper in the primary.service or readReplicas.service objects will take precedence over the top level service object.

Use a different PostgreSQL version

To modify the application version used in this chart, specify a different version of the image using the image.tag parameter and/or a different repository using the image.repository parameter. Refer to the chart documentation for more information on these parameters and how to use them with images from a private registry.

postgresql.conf / pg_hba.conf files as configMap

This helm chart also supports to customize the whole configuration file.

Add your custom file to "files/postgresql.conf" in your working directory. This file will be mounted as configMap to the containers and it will be used for configuring the PostgreSQL server.

Alternatively, you can add additional PostgreSQL configuration parameters using the postgresqlExtendedConf parameter as a dict, using camelCase, e.g. {"sharedBuffers": "500MB"}. Alternatively, to replace the entire default configuration use postgresqlConfiguration.

In addition to these options, you can also set an external ConfigMap with all the configuration files. This is done by setting the configurationConfigMap parameter. Note that this will override the two previous options.

Allow settings to be loaded from files other than the default postgresql.conf

If you don't want to provide the whole PostgreSQL configuration file and only specify certain parameters, you can add your extended .conf files to "files/conf.d/" in your working directory. Those files will be mounted as configMap to the containers adding/overwriting the default configuration using the include_dir directive that allows settings to be loaded from files other than the default postgresql.conf.

Alternatively, you can also set an external ConfigMap with all the extra configuration files. This is done by setting the extendedConfConfigMap parameter. Note that this will override the previous option.

Initialize a fresh instance

The Bitnami PostgreSQL image allows you to use your custom scripts to initialize a fresh instance. In order to execute the scripts, they must be located inside the chart folder files/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d so they can be consumed as a ConfigMap.

Alternatively, you can specify custom scripts using the initdbScripts parameter as dict.

In addition to these options, you can also set an external ConfigMap with all the initialization scripts. This is done by setting the initdbScriptsConfigMap parameter. Note that this will override the two previous options. If your initialization scripts contain sensitive information such as credentials or passwords, you can use the initdbScriptsSecret parameter.

The allowed extensions are .sh, .sql and .sql.gz.

Securing traffic using TLS

TLS support can be enabled in the chart by specifying the tls. parameters while creating a release. The following parameters should be configured to properly enable the TLS support in the chart:

• tls.enabled: Enable TLS support. Defaults to false
• tls.certificatesSecret: Name of an existing secret that contains the certificates. No defaults.
• tls.certFilename: Certificate filename. No defaults.
• tls.certKeyFilename: Certificate key filename. No defaults.

For example:

• First, create the secret with the cetificates files:

  kubectl create secret generic certificates-tls-secret --from-file=./cert.crt --from-file=./cert.key --from-file=./ca.crt
  

• Then, use the following parameters:

  volumePermissions.enabled=true
  tls.enabled=true
  tls.certificatesSecret="certificates-tls-secret"
  tls.certFilename="cert.crt"
  tls.certKeyFilename="cert.key"
  

  Note TLS and VolumePermissions: PostgreSQL requires certain permissions on sensitive files (such as certificate keys) to start up. Due to an on-going issue regarding kubernetes permissions and the use of containerSecurityContext.runAsUser, you must enable volumePermissions to ensure everything works as expected.

Sidecars

If you need additional containers to run within the same pod as PostgreSQL (e.g. an additional metrics or logging exporter), you can do so via the sidecars config parameter. Simply define your container according to the Kubernetes container spec.

# For the PostgreSQL primary
primary:
  sidecars:
  - name: your-image-name
    image: your-image
    imagePullPolicy: Always
    ports:
    - name: portname
     containerPort: 1234
# For the PostgreSQL replicas
readReplicas:
  sidecars:
  - name: your-image-name
    image: your-image
    imagePullPolicy: Always
    ports:
    - name: portname
     containerPort: 1234

Metrics

The chart optionally can start a metrics exporter for prometheus. The metrics endpoint (port 9187) is not exposed and it is expected that the metrics are collected from inside the k8s cluster using something similar as the described in the example Prometheus scrape configuration.

The exporter allows to create custom metrics from additional SQL queries. See the Chart's values.yaml for an example and consult the exporters documentation for more details.

Use of global variables

In more complex scenarios, we may have the following tree of dependencies

                     +--------------+
                     |              |
        +------------+   Chart 1    +-----------+
        |            |              |           |
        |            --------+------+           |
        |                    |                  |
        |                    |                  |
        |                    |                  |
        |                    |                  |
        v                    v                  v
+-------+------+    +--------+------+  +--------+------+
|              |    |               |  |               |
|  PostgreSQL  |    |  Sub-chart 1  |  |  Sub-chart 2  |
|              |    |               |  |               |
+--------------+    +---------------+  +---------------+

The three charts below depend on the parent chart Chart 1. However, subcharts 1 and 2 may need to connect to PostgreSQL as well. In order to do so, subcharts 1 and 2 need to know the PostgreSQL credentials, so one option for deploying could be deploy Chart 1 with the following parameters:

postgresql.postgresqlPassword=testtest
subchart1.postgresql.postgresqlPassword=testtest
subchart2.postgresql.postgresqlPassword=testtest
postgresql.postgresqlDatabase=db1
subchart1.postgresql.postgresqlDatabase=db1
subchart2.postgresql.postgresqlDatabase=db1

If the number of dependent sub-charts increases, installing the chart with parameters can become increasingly difficult. An alternative would be to set the credentials using global variables as follows:

global.postgresql.postgresqlPassword=testtest
global.postgresql.postgresqlDatabase=db1

This way, the credentials will be available in all of the subcharts.

Persistence

The Bitnami PostgreSQL image stores the PostgreSQL data and configurations at the /bitnami/postgresql path of the container.

Persistent Volume Claims are used to keep the data across deployments. This is known to work in GCE, AWS, and minikube. See the Parameters section to configure the PVC or to disable persistence.

If you already have data in it, you will fail to sync to standby nodes for all commits, details can refer to code. If you need to use those data, please covert them to sql and import after helm install finished.

NetworkPolicy

To enable network policy for PostgreSQL, install a networking plugin that implements the Kubernetes NetworkPolicy spec, and set networkPolicy.enabled to true.

For Kubernetes v1.5 & v1.6, you must also turn on NetworkPolicy by setting the DefaultDeny namespace annotation. Note: this will enforce policy for all pods in the namespace:

$ kubectl annotate namespace default "net.beta.kubernetes.io/network-policy={\"ingress\":{\"isolation\":\"DefaultDeny\"}}"

With NetworkPolicy enabled, traffic will be limited to just port 5432.

For more precise policy, set networkPolicy.allowExternal=false. This will only allow pods with the generated client label to connect to PostgreSQL. This label will be displayed in the output of a successful install.

Differences between Bitnami PostgreSQL image and Docker Official image

• The Docker Official PostgreSQL image does not support replication. If you pass any replication environment variable, this would be ignored. The only environment variables supported by the Docker Official image are POSTGRES_USER, POSTGRES_DB, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS, POSTGRES_INITDB_WALDIR and PGDATA. All the remaining environment variables are specific to the Bitnami PostgreSQL image.
• The Bitnami PostgreSQL image is non-root by default. This requires that you run the pod with securityContext and updates the permissions of the volume with an initContainer. A key benefit of this configuration is that the pod follows security best practices and is prepared to run on Kubernetes distributions with hard security constraints like OpenShift.
• For OpenShift, one may either define the runAsUser and fsGroup accordingly, or try this more dynamic option: volumePermissions.securityContext.runAsUser="auto",securityContext.enabled=false,containerSecurityContext.enabled=false,shmVolume.chmod.enabled=false

Deploy chart using Docker Official PostgreSQL Image

From chart version 4.0.0, it is possible to use this chart with the Docker Official PostgreSQL image. Besides specifying the new Docker repository and tag, it is important to modify the PostgreSQL data directory and volume mount point. Basically, the PostgreSQL data dir cannot be the mount point directly, it has to be a subdirectory.

image.repository=postgres
image.tag=10.6
postgresqlDataDir=/data/pgdata
persistence.mountPath=/data/

Setting Pod's affinity

This chart allows you to set your custom affinity using the XXX.affinity paremeter(s). Find more infomation about Pod's affinity in the kubernetes documentation.

As an alternative, you can use of the preset configurations for pod affinity, pod anti-affinity, and node affinity available at the bitnami/common chart. To do so, set the XXX.podAffinityPreset, XXX.podAntiAffinityPreset, or XXX.nodeAffinityPreset parameters.

Troubleshooting

Find more information about how to deal with common errors related to Bitnami’s Helm charts in this troubleshooting guide.

Upgrading

It's necessary to specify the existing passwords while performing an upgrade to ensure the secrets are not updated with invalid randomly generated passwords. Remember to specify the existing values of the postgresqlPassword and replication.password parameters when upgrading the chart:

$ helm upgrade my-release bitnami/postgresql \
    --set postgresqlPassword=[POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD] \
    --set replication.password=[REPLICATION_PASSWORD]

Note: you need to substitute the placeholders [POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD], and [REPLICATION_PASSWORD] with the values obtained from instructions in the installation notes.

To 10.0.0

On November 13, 2020, Helm v2 support was formally finished, this major version is the result of the required changes applied to the Helm Chart to be able to incorporate the different features added in Helm v3 and to be consistent with the Helm project itself regarding the Helm v2 EOL.

What changes were introduced in this major version?

• Previous versions of this Helm Chart use apiVersion: v1 (installable by both Helm 2 and 3), this Helm Chart was updated to apiVersion: v2 (installable by Helm 3 only). Here you can find more information about the apiVersion field.
• Move dependency information from the requirements.yaml to the Chart.yaml
• After running helm dependency update, a Chart.lock file is generated containing the same structure used in the previous requirements.lock
• The different fields present in the Chart.yaml file has been ordered alphabetically in a homogeneous way for all the Bitnami Helm Chart.

Considerations when upgrading to this version

• If you want to upgrade to this version using Helm v2, this scenario is not supported as this version doesn't support Helm v2 anymore
• If you installed the previous version with Helm v2 and wants to upgrade to this version with Helm v3, please refer to the official Helm documentation about migrating from Helm v2 to v3

Useful links

• https://docs.bitnami.com/tutorials/resolve-helm2-helm3-post-migration-issues/
• https://helm.sh/docs/topics/v2_v3_migration/
• https://helm.sh/blog/migrate-from-helm-v2-to-helm-v3/

Breaking changes

• The term master has been replaced with primary and slave with readReplicas throughout the chart. Role names have changed from master and slave to primary and read.

To upgrade to 10.0.0, it should be done reusing the PVCs used to hold the PostgreSQL data on your previous release. To do so, follow the instructions below (the following example assumes that the release name is postgresql):

NOTE: Please, create a backup of your database before running any of those actions.

Obtain the credentials and the names of the PVCs used to hold the PostgreSQL data on your current release:

$ export POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD=$(kubectl get secret --namespace default postgresql -o jsonpath="{.data.postgresql-password}" | base64 --decode)
$ export POSTGRESQL_PVC=$(kubectl get pvc -l app.kubernetes.io/instance=postgresql,role=master -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}")

Delete the PostgreSQL statefulset. Notice the option --cascade=false:

$ kubectl delete statefulsets.apps postgresql-postgresql --cascade=false

Now the upgrade works:

$ helm upgrade postgresql bitnami/postgresql --set postgresqlPassword=$POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD --set persistence.existingClaim=$POSTGRESQL_PVC

You will have to delete the existing PostgreSQL pod and the new statefulset is going to create a new one

$ kubectl delete pod postgresql-postgresql-0

Finally, you should see the lines below in PostgreSQL container logs:

$ kubectl logs $(kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/instance=postgresql,app.kubernetes.io/name=postgresql,role=primary -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}")
...
postgresql 08:05:12.59 INFO  ==> Deploying PostgreSQL with persisted data...
...

To 9.0.0

In this version the chart was adapted to follow the Helm label best practices, see PR 3021. That means the backward compatibility is not guarantee when upgrading the chart to this major version.

As a workaround, you can delete the existing statefulset (using the --cascade=false flag pods are not deleted) before upgrade the chart. For example, this can be a valid workflow:

• Deploy an old version (8.X.X)

$ helm install postgresql bitnami/postgresql --version 8.10.14

• Old version is up and running

$ helm ls
NAME      	NAMESPACE	REVISION	UPDATED                                	STATUS  	CHART             	APP VERSION
postgresql	default  	1       	2020-08-04 13:39:54.783480286 +0000 UTC	deployed	postgresql-8.10.14	11.8.0

$ kubectl get pods
NAME                      READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
postgresql-postgresql-0   1/1     Running   0          76s

• The upgrade to the latest one (9.X.X) is going to fail

$ helm upgrade postgresql bitnami/postgresql
Error: UPGRADE FAILED: cannot patch "postgresql-postgresql" with kind StatefulSet: StatefulSet.apps "postgresql-postgresql" is invalid: spec: Forbidden: updates to statefulset spec for fields other than 'replicas', 'template', and 'updateStrategy' are forbidden

• Delete the statefulset

$ kubectl delete statefulsets.apps --cascade=false postgresql-postgresql
statefulset.apps "postgresql-postgresql" deleted

• Now the upgrade works

$ helm upgrade postgresql bitnami/postgresql
$ helm ls
NAME      	NAMESPACE	REVISION	UPDATED                                	STATUS  	CHART           	APP VERSION
postgresql	default  	3       	2020-08-04 13:42:08.020385884 +0000 UTC	deployed	postgresql-9.1.2	11.8.0

• We can kill the existing pod and the new statefulset is going to create a new one:

$ kubectl delete pod postgresql-postgresql-0
pod "postgresql-postgresql-0" deleted

$ kubectl get pods
NAME                      READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
postgresql-postgresql-0   1/1     Running   0          19s

Please, note that without the --cascade=false both objects (statefulset and pod) are going to be removed and both objects will be deployed again with the helm upgrade command

To 8.0.0

Prefixes the port names with their protocols to comply with Istio conventions.

If you depend on the port names in your setup, make sure to update them to reflect this change.

To 7.1.0

Adds support for LDAP configuration.

To 7.0.0

Helm performs a lookup for the object based on its group (apps), version (v1), and kind (Deployment). Also known as its GroupVersionKind, or GVK. Changing the GVK is considered a compatibility breaker from Kubernetes' point of view, so you cannot "upgrade" those objects to the new GVK in-place. Earlier versions of Helm 3 did not perform the lookup correctly which has since been fixed to match the spec.

In https://github.com/helm/charts/pull/17281 the apiVersion of the statefulset resources was updated to apps/v1 in tune with the api's deprecated, resulting in compatibility breakage.

This major version bump signifies this change.

To 6.5.7

In this version, the chart will use PostgreSQL with the Postgis extension included. The version used with Postgresql version 10, 11 and 12 is Postgis 2.5. It has been compiled with the following dependencies:

• protobuf
• protobuf-c
• json-c
• geos
• proj

To 5.0.0

In this version, the chart is using PostgreSQL 11 instead of PostgreSQL 10. You can find the main difference and notable changes in the following links: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1894/ and https://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix/.

For major releases of PostgreSQL, the internal data storage format is subject to change, thus complicating upgrades, you can see some errors like the following one in the logs:

Welcome to the Bitnami postgresql container
Subscribe to project updates by watching https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-postgresql
Submit issues and feature requests at https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-postgresql/issues
Send us your feedback at containers@bitnami.com

INFO  ==> ** Starting PostgreSQL setup **
NFO  ==> Validating settings in POSTGRESQL_* env vars..
INFO  ==> Initializing PostgreSQL database...
INFO  ==> postgresql.conf file not detected. Generating it...
INFO  ==> pg_hba.conf file not detected. Generating it...
INFO  ==> Deploying PostgreSQL with persisted data...
INFO  ==> Configuring replication parameters
INFO  ==> Loading custom scripts...
INFO  ==> Enabling remote connections
INFO  ==> Stopping PostgreSQL...
INFO  ==> ** PostgreSQL setup finished! **

INFO  ==> ** Starting PostgreSQL **
  [1] FATAL:  database files are incompatible with server
  [1] DETAIL:  The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 10, which is not compatible with this version 11.3.

In this case, you should migrate the data from the old chart to the new one following an approach similar to that described in this section from the official documentation. Basically, create a database dump in the old chart, move and restore it in the new one.

To 4.0.0

This chart will use by default the Bitnami PostgreSQL container starting from version 10.7.0-r68. This version moves the initialization logic from node.js to bash. This new version of the chart requires setting the POSTGRES_PASSWORD in the slaves as well, in order to properly configure the pg_hba.conf file. Users from previous versions of the chart are advised to upgrade immediately.

IMPORTANT: If you do not want to upgrade the chart version then make sure you use the 10.7.0-r68 version of the container. Otherwise, you will get this error

The POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD environment variable is empty or not set. Set the environment variable ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes to allow the container to be started with blank passwords. This is recommended only for development

To 3.0.0

This releases make it possible to specify different nodeSelector, affinity and tolerations for master and slave pods. It also fixes an issue with postgresql.master.fullname helper template not obeying fullnameOverride.

Breaking changes

• affinty has been renamed to master.affinity and slave.affinity.
• tolerations has been renamed to master.tolerations and slave.tolerations.
• nodeSelector has been renamed to master.nodeSelector and slave.nodeSelector.

To 2.0.0

In order to upgrade from the 0.X.X branch to 1.X.X, you should follow the below steps:

• Obtain the service name (SERVICE_NAME) and password (OLD_PASSWORD) of the existing postgresql chart. You can find the instructions to obtain the password in the NOTES.txt, the service name can be obtained by running

$ kubectl get svc

• Install (not upgrade) the new version

$ helm repo update
$ helm install my-release bitnami/postgresql

• Connect to the new pod (you can obtain the name by running kubectl get pods):

$ kubectl exec -it NAME bash

• Once logged in, create a dump file from the previous database using pg_dump, for that we should connect to the previous postgresql chart:

$ pg_dump -h SERVICE_NAME -U postgres DATABASE_NAME > /tmp/backup.sql

After run above command you should be prompted for a password, this password is the previous chart password (OLD_PASSWORD). This operation could take some time depending on the database size.

• Once you have the backup file, you can restore it with a command like the one below:

$ psql -U postgres DATABASE_NAME < /tmp/backup.sql

In this case, you are accessing to the local postgresql, so the password should be the new one (you can find it in NOTES.txt).

If you want to restore the database and the database schema does not exist, it is necessary to first follow the steps described below.

$ psql -U postgres
postgres=# drop database DATABASE_NAME;
postgres=# create database DATABASE_NAME;
postgres=# create user USER_NAME;
postgres=# alter role USER_NAME with password 'BITNAMI_USER_PASSWORD';
postgres=# grant all privileges on database DATABASE_NAME to USER_NAME;
postgres=# alter database DATABASE_NAME owner to USER_NAME;

License

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