System requirements

The Operator is validated for deployment on Kubernetes, GKE and EKS clusters. The Operator is cloud native and storage agnostic, working with a wide variety of storage classes, hostPath, and NFS.

Supported versions

The Operator 2.6.0 is developed, tested and based on:

• PostgreSQL 13.20, 14.17, 15.12, 16.8, 17.2 and 17.4 as the database. Other versions may also work but have not been tested.

• pgBouncer for connection pooling:

  • version 1.23.1 - for PostgreSQL 17.2
  • version 1.24.0 - for PostgreSQL 13.20, 14.17, 15.12, 16.8, 17.4

• Patroni for high-availability:

  • version 4.0.5 - for PostgreSQL 17.4
  • version 4.0.3 - for PostgreSQL 17.2
  • version 4.0.4 - for PostgreSQL 13.20, 14.17, 15.12, 16.8

Supported platforms

The following platforms were tested and are officially supported by the Operator 2.6.0:

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) 1.29 - 1.31
• Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) 1.29 - 1.32
• OpenShift 4.14 - 4.18
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 1.29 - 1.31
• Minikube 1.35.0 with Kubernetes 1.32.0

Other Kubernetes platforms may also work but have not been tested.

Installation guidelines

Choose how you wish to install Percona Operator for PostgreSQL:

• with Helm
• with kubectl
• on Minikube
• on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (AWS EKS)
• on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• in a general Kubernetes-based environment

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Last update: 2025-07-15