Patroni
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7recommend
2warn against
Dec 20, 2025first mention
Aug 19, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Patroni 1.0 was released in 2016, i.e ~10 years ago.”
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“a really nice and reliable PostgreSQL distribution that provides automatic failover”
“the trusted and reputed Patroni, which is known NOT to risk split brains”
“We use patroni and run it outside of k8s on prem, no issues in 6 or 7 years.”
Caveats and dissent
“Someone tried it with Patroni and failed miserably”
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“https://patroni.readthedocs.io/”
“Patroni 1.0 was released in 2016, i.e ~10 years ago.”
“a really nice and reliable PostgreSQL distribution that provides automatic failover”
“Someone tried it with Patroni and failed miserably”
“the trusted and reputed Patroni, which is known NOT to risk split brains”
“found some pretty critical problems”
“What is your preferred alternative to Patroni?”
“We use patroni and run it outside of k8s on prem, no issues in 6 or 7 years.”
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
“I use Patroni for that in a k8s environment”
“The most common way to achieve HÁ is using Patroni.”