I have spent some time setting up my own instance of CloudnativePG inside my Kubernetes cluster. I have two instances a dev instance, and a "prod" instance. Normally I would use pg_dump to backup the databases, but I wanted to try something different.

If you deployed your Kubernetes cluster in Cloud, the cloud provider will take care of creating Load balancer instances. But if you are using bare metal for the Kubernetes cluster, you have very limited choices.

A little background here, at work we use Flux this has been set up for quite a while way before ArgoCD was released. So liking new and shiny things, I decided to go with ArgoCD plus I liked the logo much more.

I have always wanted to learn how to install and manage a Kubernetes cluster so this is how I have gone about it. After going through many tutorials, YT videos and even the Kubernetes official docs. I struggled to get a cluster up and running. The official docs just IMO seem all over the place.