ParadeDB BYOC

ParadeDB BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) is a managed deployment of ParadeDB within your cloud environment. It combines the benefits of a managed platform with the security posture of a self-hosted deployment.

ParadeDB BYOC is supported on GCP and AWS, including GovCloud regions and airgapped environments. To request access for Azure, Oracle Cloud, or another cloud platform please contact sales@paradedb.com.

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How BYOC Works

ParadeDB BYOC provisions a Kubernetes cluster in your cloud environment with high availability preconfigured. It also configures logical replication with your primary Postgres, backups, connection pooling, monitoring, access control, and audit logging.

ParadeDB BYOC can be deployed and managed in one of two ways:

• Fully Managed: ParadeDB will deploy and manage the ParadeDB BYOC module for you. ParadeDB requires a sub-account or project within your cloud provider via an IAM user or a service account.
• Just-in-Time Managed: You will deploy the ParadeDB BYOC module and can choose to provide just-in-time access to the ParadeDB team when support is required. This is typically useful for airgapped environments.

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Getting Started

This section assumes that you have received access to the ParadeDB BYOC module and are deploying it yourself on AWS or GCP. In a fully managed deployment, these steps will be performed by ParadeDB on your behalf.

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Install Dependencies

First, ensure that you are in the BYOC module repository. Next, install Terraform, Kubectl, PostgreSQL, and the CLI for your desired cloud provider:

brew install terraform kubectl postgresql

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Authenticate CLI

Install and authenticate with either the AWS CLI or GCP CLI.

aws configure

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Provision ParadeDB

Our Terraform project will provision a Kubernetes cluster (EKS or GKE) along with all the necessary infrastructure to run ParadeDB.

First, copy either aws.example.tfvars or gcp.example.tfvars into a new file called byoc.tfvars.

cp aws.example.tfvars byoc.tfvars

Next, open and configure byoc.tfvars. Configuration instructions can be found directly within the file.

open byoc.tfvars || xdg-open byoc.tfvars

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Run Terraform

First, initialize Terraform.

terraform -chdir=infrastructure/aws init

Next, run Terraform apply.

terraform -chdir=infrastructure/aws apply -var-file=../../byoc.tfvars

When this command is complete, you will see a kubectl command printed as Terraform output to the terminal. Run this command, which will add the EKS or GKE cluster configuration to your local .kubeconfig file.

That’s it! You’re now ready to connect to ParadeDB.

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Connect to ParadeDB

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Access the Grafana Dashboard

First, port-forward the Grafana service to localhost.

kubectl --namespace monitoring port-forward service/prometheus-grafana 8080:80

Then, go to http://localhost:8080. Your Grafana credentials have been printed in the terminal output of the above Terraform apply command.

You can find the ParadeDB dashboard by typing CloudNativePG in the search bar, and selecting paradedb for the Database Namespace.

By default, the dashboard will display metrics over the last 7 days. If you’ve just spun up the cluster, change it to the last 15 minutes to start seeing results immediately.

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Access the ParadeDB Instance

First, retrieve the database credentials.

kubectl --namespace paradedb get secrets paradedb-superuser -o json | jq -r '.data | map_values(@base64d) | .uri |= sub("\\*"; "paradedb") | .dbname = "paradedb"'

Next, port-forward the ParadeDB service to localhost.

kubectl --namespace paradedb port-forward service/paradedb-rw 5432:5432

Now you can connect to the ParadeDB instance using the credentials you’ve retrieved.

PGPASSWORD=<your-password> psql -h localhost -d paradedb -p 5432 -U <your-user>