TimescaleDB on Kubernetes

You can install a TimescaleDB instance on any Kubernetes deployment. Use the timescaledb-single Helm chart to deploy a highly available TimescaleDB database, and the timescaledb-multinode Helm chart to deploy a multi-node distributed TimescaleDB database.

High availability TimescaleDB

The timescaledb-single Helm chart performs these actions:

• Creates three default Pods using Kubernetes StatefulSet.
• Creates each Pod that has a container using the TimescaleDB Docker image.
• Installs TimescaleDB 2.1 and PG 13.
• Creates containers that run a TimescaleDB instance and Patroni agent.
• Configures each TimescaleDB instance for replication with one master and two replicas.

When you deploy on AWS Elastic Kubernetes service the Pods are scheduled on nodes which run in different availability zones (AZs). An AWS Elastic load balancer (ELB) is configured to handle routing incoming traffic to the master Pod.

When configured for backups to S3:

• Each Pod also includes a container running pgBackRest.
• Two cron jobs are created to handle full weekly and incremental daily backups.
• The backups are stored in an S3 bucket.

Multi-node distributed TimescaleDB

The timescaledb-multinode Helm chart deploys a multinode TimescaleDB cluster that sets up:

• Creates s single TimescaleDB Access Node using Kubernetes StatefulSet.
• Creates three Pods containing Data Nodesusing another Kubernetes StatefulSet.
• Creates each Pod that has a container using a Docker image which includes the TimescaleDB multi-node sources.

When you deploy on AWS Elastic Kubernetes service, an AWS Elastic load balancer (ELB) is configured to handle routing incoming traffic to the access node.