Deployment and management with TPA v5.6
TPA (Trusted Postgres Architect) is a standard automated way of installing PGD and Postgres on physical and virtual machines, both self-hosted and in the cloud (with AWS EC2).
Get started with TPA and PGD quickly
If you want to experiment with a local deployment as quickly as possible, you can deploying an EDB Postgres Distributed example cluster on Docker to configure, provision, and deploy a PGD 5 Always-on cluster on Docker.
If deploying to the cloud is your aim, you can deploying an EDB Postgres Distributed example cluster on AWS to get a PGD 5 cluster on your own Amazon account.
If you want to run on your own Linux systems or VMs, you can use also use TPA to deploy EDB Postgres Distributed directly to your own Linux hosts
This section covers how to use TPA to deploy and administer EDB Postgres Distributed.
- Deploying with TPA works through the steps needed to:
- Install TPA.
- Use TPA to create a configuration.
- Deploy the configuration with TPA.
The installing section provides an example cluster that will be used in future examples.
You can also perform a rolling major version upgrade with PGD administered by TPA.