CloudNativePG
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13recommend
1warn against
Dec 5, 2025first mention
Oct 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“CloudNativePG supports Kubernetes Local Storage as one of its main features”
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“CloudNativePG uses this for its Image Volume Extensions feature”
“Have you looked into things like CloudnativePG?”
“If you use something like CloudNativePG they automate parts of the process with cli tools and declarative syntax.”
Caveats and dissent
“the split brain that CNPG suffers”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
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“CloudNativePG supports Kubernetes Local Storage as one of its main features”
“why not just use cnpg?”
“CloudNativePG uses this for its Image Volume Extensions feature”
“benchmark my own CNPG on k8s”
“Have you looked into things like CloudnativePG?”
“If you use something like CloudNativePG they automate parts of the process with cli tools and declarative syntax.”
“Strong plus: CloudNativePG”
“CloudNativePG also implements support for volume snapshots”
“We use Barman inside Kubernetes via CloudNativePG's plugin”
“for example cloudnativepg allows you to declaratively describe postgres”
“CloudNativePG operator manages PostgreSQL with automatic failover”
“the split brain that CNPG suffers”
“CloudNative PG actually gives you really nice dashboards out-of-the-box for free”
“I'm truly impressed - it's a piece of art when it comes to postgres automation”
“PostgreSQL specifically: https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg”
Be sure to read the Муths and Truths about Synchronous Replication in PostgreSQL (by the author of Patroni) before considering those solutions as cloud-native high availability: https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfde2025/sessions/session/6559/slides/663/Myths%20and%20Truths%20about%20Synchronous%20Replication%20in%20PostgreSQL.pdf
“is a great option if you’re using Kubernetes”
Hi, StackGres founder here. We're constantly striving to improve the user experience and the quality of StackGres. Would you mind sharing some feedback as to what made your experience not good with it? Did you join the Slack Community (https://slack.stackgres.io/) to ask if you were facing some trouble? It always helps, even if it is just by sharing your troubles. (If you'd like to share feedback and do so privately,
“I hear the cloud native pg operator is okay though?”
“I use Cloud Native Postgres for DBs so I have backups already configured.”