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 3.1.0 is developed and tested with:

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL¶

PostgreSQL 14.24-1, 15.19-1, 16.15-1, 17.11.1-1, 18.6.1-1 as the database. Other versions may also work but have not been tested.
pgBackRest 2.59.0-1 for backup and recovery
pgBouncer 1.25.2-6 for connection pooling
Patroni version 4.1.5 for high-availability
PostGIS version 3.5.7
PMM Client version 3.9.1
cert-manager 1.21.1

PostgreSQL Community¶

PostgreSQL 14.24, 15.19, 16.15, 17.11, 18.6, and 19 (tech preview) as the database.
pgBackRest 2.59.0 for backup and recovery
pgBouncer 1.25.2 for connection pooling

Supported platforms¶

The following platforms were tested and are officially supported by the Operator 3.1.0:

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) 1.34 - 1.35
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) 1.34 - 1.36
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 1.34 - 1.36
OpenShift 4.19.43 - 4.22.10
Minikube 1.38.1 with Kubernetes v1.35.1
Rancher with Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE2) - 1.34 - 1.36

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

Huge pages¶

We strongly recommend enabling huge pages on worker nodes for better stability and performance.

Installation guidelines¶

Choose how you wish to install Percona Operator for PostgreSQL:

Last update: September 9, 2026
Created: July 12, 2022