A First Cluster Deployment v23
In this short tutorial, we are going to work through deploying a simple M1 architecture deployment onto a local Docker installation. By the end you will have four containers, one primary database, two replicas and a backup node, configured and ready for you to explore.
For this example, we will run TPA on an Ubuntu system, but the considerations are similar for most Linux systems.
Installing TPA
If you're an EDB customer, you'll want to follow the EDB Repo instructions which will install the TPA packages straight from EDB's repositories.
If you are an open source user of TPA, there's instructions on how to build from the source which you can download from Github.com.
Follow those guides and then return here.
Installing Docker
As we said, We are going to deploy the example deployment onto Docker and unless you already have Docker installed we'll need to set that up.
On Debian or Ubuntu, install Docker by running:
For other Linux distributions, consult the Docker Engine Install page.
You will want to add your user to the docker group with:
Warning
Giving a user the ability to speak to the Docker daemon lets them trivially gain root on the Docker host. Only trusted users should have access to the Docker daemon.
on RHEL 7 instances
To use RHEL 7 instances your host must be configured to run cgroups v1. Refer to documentation for your system to verify and alter cgroups configuration, or choose another operating system for your containers to follow this tutorial.
Creating a configuration with TPA
The next step in this process is to create a configuration. TPA does most of the work for you through its configure
command. All you have to do is supply command line flags and options to select, in broad terms, what you want to deploy. Here's our tpaexec configure
command:
This creates a configuration called demo
which has the M1 architecture. It will therefore have a primary, replica and backup node.
The --platform docker
tells TPA that this configuration should be created on a local Docker instance; it will provision all the containers and OS requirements. Other platforms include AWS, which does the same with Amazon Web Services and Bare, which skips to operating system provisioning and goes straight to installing software on already configured Linux hosts.
With --postgresql 15
, we instruct TPA to use Community Postgres, version 15. There are several options here in terms of selecting software, but this is the most straightforward default for open-source users.
Adding --enable-repmgr
tells TPA to use configure the deployment to use Replication Manager to hand replication and failover.
Finally, --no-git
turns off the feature in TPA which allows you to revision control your configuration through git.
Run this command, and apparently, nothing will happen on the command line. But you will find a directory called demo
has been created containing some files including a config.yml
file which is a blueprint for our new deployment.
Provisioning the deployment
Now we are ready to create the containers (or virtual machines) on which we will run our new deployment. This can be achieved with the provision
command. Run:
You will see TPA work through the various operations needed to prepare for deployment of your configuration.
Deploying
Once provisioned, you can move on to deployment. This installs, if needed, operating systems and system packages. It then installs the requested Postgres architecture and performs all the needed configuration.
You will see TPA work through the various operations needed to deploy your configuration.
Testing
You can quickly test your newly deployed configuration using the tpaexec test
command which will run pgbench on your new database.
Connecting
To get to a psql prompt, the simplest route is to log into one of the containers (or VMs or host depending on configuration) using docker or SSH. Run
to ping all the connectable hosts in the deployment: You will get output that looks something like:
Select one of the nodes which responded with SUCCESS
. We shall use uptake
for this example.
If you are only planning on using docker, use the command docker exec -it uptake /bin/bash
, substituting in the appropriate hostname.
Another option, that works with all types of TPA deployment is to use SSH. To do that, first change current directory to the created configuration directory.
For example, our configuration is called demo, so we go to that directory. In there, we run ssh -F ssh_config ourhostname
to connect.
In both cases, you will be logged in as a root user on the container.
We can now change user to the postgres
user using sudo -iu postgres
. As postgres
we can run psql
. TPA has already configured that user with a .pgpass
file so there's no need to present a password.
And we are connected to our database.
You can connect from the host system without SSHing into one of the containers. Obtain the IP address of the host you want to connect to from the ssh_config
file.
We are going to connect to uptake, so the IP address is 172.17.0.11.
You will also need to retrieve the password for the postgres user too. Run tpaexec show-password demo postgres
to get the stored password from the system.