Database

To persist history, canary-checker has 3 options:

1. Mount a PVC/Hostpath volume for an embedded postgres database
2. Deploy a postgres database as a statefulset
3. Connect to an external postgres database

Mounting a persistent volume

values.yaml
db:
 embedded:
  storageClass: # the name of a PV Storage Class
  stoage: 10Gi
# ...

Connecting

If you ever need to connect to the embedded database, you can do so by forwarding the port:

kubectl port-forward canary-checker-0 6432:6432
psql -U postgres localhost -p 6432 canary with password postgres #password will be postgres

Deploying a standalone db

values.yaml
db:
 external:
  enabled: true
  create: true # creates a new postgres statefulset
  storageClass: # the name of a PV Storage Class
  stoage: 10Gi
# ...

The helm chart will create a postgres server statefulset, with a random password and default port, along with a new database.

To specify a username and password for the chart-managed Postgres server, create a secret in the namespace that the chart will install to, named postgres-connection, which contains POSTGRES_USER and POSTGRES_PASSWORD keys.

Connecting to an external db

In order to connect to an existing Postgres server, a database must be created on the server, along with a user that has administrator permissions for the database.git

values.yaml
db:
 external:
  enabled: true
  create: false
  secretKeyRef:
   name: postgres-connection # name of secret that contains a key containging the postgres connection URI
   key: POSTGRES_URL   # name of the key in the secret that contains the postgres connection URI
# ...