This guide details a production-grade, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pattern for deploying the Crunchy Data Postgres Operator (PGO) on Kubernetes with Ansible. It's designed for experienced engineers managing their own infrastructure on platforms like K3s, not for those using managed cloud database services like RDS or Cloud SQL.
By wrapping PGO's Helm chart and cluster definitions in Ansible, you create a version-controlled, repeatable, and automated system. By the end, you will have a complete playbook that deploys PGO and provisions a Postgres cluster with production-ready, S3-backed backups.
