An introduction to stolon: cloud native PostgreSQL high availability
At sorintlab, in the old days and with customers with “old school” infrastructures we had different ways to make an high available PostgreSQL. We used heartbeat, heartbeat+crm, rhcs, coreosync+pacemaker with a shared storage and a correctly (!!!) configured fencing/stonith. When moving our infrastructures and customers to cloud based infrastructures (being it a private or a public one), the way to design the infrastructures drastically (and fortunately) changed. Finally our customers were forced to think about the various parts of the infrastructure like something that can break in every moment and that’s also ephemeral.