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Run PostgreSQL® in Kubernetes!

Welcome to CloudNativePG, the open-source platform designed to seamlessly manage the entire operational lifecycle of PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes.

Project Ecosystem

CloudNativePG consists of several specialized repositories, including the core operator, container images, and plugins.

Governance, Contributing & Community

We manage the project with a focus on stability, security, and sustainable development.

Tip

Looking to contribute or participate in the community? Please refer to our Project Contributing Guidelines. This is our single source of truth for communication channels (Slack, Discussions), contribution workflows, and project policies.

All governance documents, including our Code of Conduct and AI Policy, are hosted in our Governance repository.

Adopters

A list of publicly known users of CloudNativePG is available in ADOPTERS.md. Help us grow the community by adding your organization!

Getting in touch

CloudNativePG Community Meetings

Everyone is welcome! No invitation is needed. Just join us to listen or share your ideas.

Note

You don’t have to turn on your video. The first time you come, introducing yourself is more than enough. Over time, we hope that you feel comfortable voicing your opinions, giving feedback on others’ ideas, and even sharing your own ideas, and experiences.

What When Where Notes
Community/Developers meeting Every third Thursday, 4PM CET/CEST Zoom Agenda/minutes, Calendar
Office Hours meeting Every third Wednesday, 4PM CET/CEST Calendar It’s a free-form meeting, we can look at problems, discuss PR’s or Issues etc.

Community/Developers meetings agenda per year

Year Agenda
2026 https://notes.cncf.io/s/cZt62hTnD
2025 https://notes.cncf.io/s/JnymaJh_E
2024 https://notes.cncf.io/s/k0e39fzwB
2023 https://notes.cncf.io/s/qE5Pb8yy5
2022 https://notes.cncf.io/s/S9LJLvKlb

License

CloudNativePG is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.


We are a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.

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CloudNativePG was originally built and sponsored by EDB.

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Postgres, PostgreSQL and the Slonik Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada, and used with their permission.


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  1. cloudnative-pg cloudnative-pg Public

    The most popular Kubernetes Operator for PostgreSQL.

    Go 9.3k 763

  2. charts charts Public

    Official Helm charts for the operator, database clusters and the Barman Cloud plugin.

    Go Template 621 266

  3. postgres-containers postgres-containers Public

    Operand images for all community-supported PostgreSQL versions.

    HCL 154 64

  4. plugin-barman-cloud plugin-barman-cloud Public

    The reference CNPG-I backup/restore plugin for Barman Cloud.

    Go 191 73

  5. cnpg-playground cnpg-playground Public

    Local learning environment for CloudNativePG using Docker and Kind.

    Shell 69 13

  6. postgres-extensions-containers postgres-extensions-containers Public

    Container images for community PostgreSQL extensions to be used as pluggable image volumes with CloudNativePG

    Go 56 40

Repositories

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  • klio Public

    Multi-Tiered Backup and Recovery Plugin for CloudNativePG

    cloudnative-pg/klio's past year of commit activity
    Go 28 Apache-2.0 5 15 13 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • grafana-dashboards Public

    Standardized Grafana dashboards for monitoring CNPG clusters.

    cloudnative-pg/grafana-dashboards's past year of commit activity
    Makefile 88 Apache-2.0 31 15 7 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • cloudnative-pg Public

    The most popular Kubernetes Operator for PostgreSQL.

    cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg's past year of commit activity
    Go 9,297 Apache-2.0 763 227 (1 issue needs help) 210 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • cnpg-i-hello-world Public

    A simplified template/example for building new plugins.

    cloudnative-pg/cnpg-i-hello-world's past year of commit activity
    Go 5 Apache-2.0 12 7 11 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • plugin-barman-cloud Public

    The reference CNPG-I backup/restore plugin for Barman Cloud.

    cloudnative-pg/plugin-barman-cloud's past year of commit activity
    Go 191 Apache-2.0 73 105 26 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • cnpg-i Public

    The CloudNativePG Interface (CNPG-I) gRPC specification.

    cloudnative-pg/cnpg-i's past year of commit activity
    Go 94 Apache-2.0 15 9 2 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • cnpg-i-machinery Public

    Shared Go code for developing CNPG-I compatible plugins.

    cloudnative-pg/cnpg-i-machinery's past year of commit activity
    Go 5 Apache-2.0 8 4 3 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • barman-cloud Public

    Go library for interacting with Barman Cloud object stores, used by the operator's native backup support.

    cloudnative-pg/barman-cloud's past year of commit activity
    Go 11 Apache-2.0 25 2 9 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • machinery Public

    Common library extracted from CloudNativePG and containing functions and types shared by multiple projects

    cloudnative-pg/machinery's past year of commit activity
    Go 2 Apache-2.0 6 1 5 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • cnpg-infra Public

    Local-first admin tooling for managing github.com/cloudnative-pg org settings, teams, and CODEOWNERS — run from an admin's laptop, never from CI

    cloudnative-pg/cnpg-infra's past year of commit activity
    Shell 0 Apache-2.0 1 0 0 Updated Sep 15, 2026