Deploy Postgres HA

A Patroni based High Availability Postgres using etcd

Deploy Postgres HA

/var/lib/etcd

/var/lib/postgresql/data

/var/lib/postgresql/data

/var/lib/etcd

/var/lib/etcd

/var/lib/postgresql/data

Deploy and Host Postgres HA on Railway

Patroni based High Availability system for Postgres

About Hosting Postgres HA

Replicates all data from primary to 2 secondary postgres nodes. Managed by Patroni to ensure there is only one leader at a time, using etcd as distributed consensus primitive for election.

Automatically fails over to a secondary if primary is unavailable (while invalidating primary's lease on writes).

Common Use Cases

  • Database replication
  • Failover in case primary goes down
  • Avoiding split brain in HA systems

Dependencies for Postgres HA Hosting

  • Etcd cluster (3 nodes) for election
  • PostgreSQL as database primitive
  • Patroni as HA mechanism, managing leadership (write leases)
  • HA Proxy to proxy connections to the leader

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy Postgres HA on Railway?

To ensure your database recovers quickly if the machine they run on goes down. Automatically replicating and failing over to a secondary if the primary goes down.


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