Databases

Configuring a Database

See Application Templates for a list of supported databases.

The database can be configured in the application's values.yaml located in applications/<your-application>/deploy/values.yaml.

Example

harness:
    ...
    database:
      auto: true
      type: mongo

Available Attributes

auto: If true, db will be automatically deployed in the cluster

type: Specifies which DB technology to use, allowed values: mongo, postgres, neo4j

size: Size of the persistent volume that the database container mounts, default is set to 1Gi

Configuring Backups

Per default, database backups are disabled. However, for production you can overwrite activate backups by overwriting the configuration.

Backups are defined for mongo and postgres database in form of a K8s CronJob that creates a dump of the database and stores it in a different persistent volume on the same cluster.

This is done periodically according to a configurable schedule, per default once a day.

MongoDB

mongodump is used to create a gzipped archive file of the complete database.

Further reading: MongoDB archiving & compression, MongoDB Backup methods, mongodump

Postgres

pg_dumpall is used to create for each database a gzipped script.

Further reading: pg_dumpall docs