Why you should use native packages to install PostgreSQL on Linux
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The document is a presentation discussing the benefits of native packaging for EDB Postgres and community PostgreSQL. It covers topics such as security, integration, maintenance, ease of use, and performance associated with native packaging. The webinar series includes future sessions on data migration, deployment, and optimization techniques.
Why you should use native packages to install PostgreSQL on Linux
- 1. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved. Optimizing Performance and Security with Platform Native Packaging Devrim Gündüz, Principal Systems Engineer Bruce Momjian, Postgres Evangelist Marc Linster, SVP Product Development and Support 1
- 3. Welcome – Housekeeping Items • Slides and recording will be available in next 48 hours • Submit questions via GotoWebinar – will be answering at end • We will be sharing info about EDB and Postgres later 3
- 4. Webinar Series 4 Feb 19 2020 Conquering Data Migration from Oracle to Postgres March 4 2020 Using Terraform to deploy highly available Postgres March 18 2020 How to use postgresql.conf April 1 2020 Optimizing Performance and Security with Platform Native Packaging April 15 2020 Window Functions in Postgres April 29 2020 My favorite Postgres books
- 5. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.5 INTRODUCTION ● Using Red Hat (and then Fedora) since 1996. ● Using PostgreSQL since 1998. ● Started building RPMs in 2002, took over the project in 2004. ● Planet PostgreSQL: 2004 → https://planet.PostgreSQL.org ● Responsible for PostgreSQL YUM and ZYPP repositories. ● Working at EnterpriseDB since 2011 ● Designed EDB RPM and Debian/Ubuntu repositories ● PostgreSQL Major Contributor ● Living in London, UK.
- 6. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.6 AGENDA ● Life before native packaging ● What is “native packaging?” ● Benefits of native packaging ● EDB Postgres and community PostgreSQL native package repositories
- 7. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.7 Life before native packaging Compiling from source code, and installers
- 8. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.8 LIFE BEFORE NATIVE PACKAGING ● Compiling from source ● Security issues: “Compilers” ● Maintenance issues ● 1-click installers ● Security issues: Common libraries for all platforms ● The lowest common denominator ● Performance issues
- 9. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.9 What is native packaging?
- 10. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.10 NATIVE PACKAGING ● Bundling binaries, libraries, documentation, etc. for easy installation ● “Precompiled” ● Built for that operating system ● Easily delivered software
- 11. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.11 Benefits of native packaging Maintenance
- 12. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.12 BENEFITS OF NATIVE PACKAGING: MAINTENANCE ● Uses the OS libraries − No separate update requirements ● Easily compile programs against EPAS − Better linking with libpq
- 13. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.13 Benefits of native packaging Integration
- 14. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.14 BENEFITS OF NATIVE PACKAGING: INTEGRATION ● Uses OS package management tools ● One monitoring platform for all packages ● Integration with Puppet, Chef, Satellite, Ansible, etc. ● Create feasible SELinux policies
- 15. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.15 Benefits of native packaging Ease of use
- 16. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.16 BENEFITS OF NATIVE PACKAGING: EASE OF UPDATE ● Use the OS package manager to update EPAS: ● dnf/yum/apt/zypper ... ● Easier than ever!
- 17. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.17 Benefits of native packaging Performance
- 18. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.18 BENEFITS OF NATIVE PACKAGING: PERFORMANCE ● OS-supplied libc ● OS-supplied compiler
- 19. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.19 Benefits of native packaging Security
- 20. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.20 BENEFITS OF NATIVE PACKAGING: SECURITY ● An important item ● Really secure? ● What about 3rd party repositories? ● Applying patches
- 21. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.21 BENEFITS OF NATIVE PACKAGING: SECURITY ● “Source RPMs” ● One can easily rebuild binary RPMs from SRPM, and verify ● Ease of customization ● Signing of the packages ● No malicious code!
- 22. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.22 EnterpriseDB Native Package repos YUM/ZYPP/DNF
- 23. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020 All rights reserved.23 EDB POSTGRES REPOS Available via EDB portal: ● Since 2012 ● Started with RHEL/CentOS RPMs ● https://yum.enterprisedb.com ● SLES 12 RPMS ● https://zypp.enterprisedb.com ● Debian/Ubuntu packages ● https://apt.enterprisedb.com”
- 24. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.24 Community native package repos YUM/ZYPP/DNF
- 25. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.25 COMMUNITY POSTGRESQL NATIVE PACKAGE REPOSITORIES ● RHEL/CentOS/Fedora: https://yum.postgresql.org ● Ubuntu/Debian: https://apt.postgresql.org ● SLES 12: https://zypp.postgresql.org
- 26. ONLY OPEN SOURCE BASED RDBMS IN GARTNER MQ EDB Recognized 7 Years In A Row on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant 26
- 27. 27 Customers working SMARTER, reducing RISK and being more PRODUCTIVE with EDB. OVER 4,000 CUSTOMERS U.S Customers EMEA Customers APAC Customers 102 of the Fortune 500 337 of the Forbes Global 2000
- 28. EDB OPEN SOURCE LEADERSHIP NAMED EDB OPEN SOURCE COMMITTERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 28 CORE TEAM MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS Akshay Joshi Amul Sul Ashesh Vashi Dilip Kumar Jeevan Ladhe Mithun Cy Devrim Gündüz Amit Kapila Bruce Momjian Dave Page Robert Haas Ashutosh Sharma Rushabh Lathia - designates committers
- 29. 29 EDB Postgres Database 24/7 Global Support Professional Services Postgres Contributions Tools & Innovation Security/performance
- 30. Tuning concerns or operational worries? Optimize your in-house resources for other projects ● DBA services in the cloud or your data centre ● Advice and consulting for Postgres deployments ● Technical account management Email info@enterprisedb.com to request a Remote DBA readiness review
- 31. © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved.31 QUESTIONS
- 32. CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright EnterpriseDB Corporation, 2020. All rights reserved. THANK YOU info@enterprisedb.com www.enterprisedb.com 32