February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
734 pages
38h 13m
English
The reason Patroni works as a series of software layers is to reduce the reliance on any single point of failure. There's always a consensus management element and a pooling resource. Each portion of the stack is designed to operate on all candidate servers. Due to this, we no longer need to rely upon a virtual IP address or Canonical Name Record (CNAME) that must be reassigned to a promoted replica.
In the end, Patroni should deliver a cluster with the following capabilities:
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