Postgresql (version-specific) client tooling intended to be used via exec-ing into k8s-hosted container. Everything below assumes that you have kubectl and a valid kube config setup locally and also that your k8s cluster has a default storage class configured. This is intended to be used for debugging purposes.

Docker image available at https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/primedorito/postgresql_tools.

To deploy this container you can:

kubectl -n <namespace> apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/misterdorito/postgresql_tools/master/k8s/pg_tools_[version].yml

[version] should be replaced with the desired PostgreSQL version -- 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 11 or 12.

To query a db:

kubectl -n <namespace> get pods                    (note your postgresql-tools pod name)
kubectl -n <namespace> exec -i -t <pod-name> -- /bin/bash

psql -h <db hostname> -d <db name> -p <db port number> -U <postgresql user>

If you need to copy an large files to the container:

kubectl cp <local path> <namespace>/<pod name>:/data/<destination filename>

If you find that pg_dump is unexpectedly ending, it may be exceeding available memory. You should increase the memory available to the pod.

These docker images contain pg_repack. While installing pg_repack it installs tzdata as a dependency. tzdata requires you to specify a default time zone. By default this is set to "America/New_York". To change the default timezone to the one used by your db, run the following command from within the container and follow the prompts:

   dpkg-configure tzdata

To remove the container once you're done with it:

kubectl -n <namespace> delete deployment postgresql-tools

and also

kubectl -n <namespace> delete pvc datadir

To deploy this container via helm, check out https://github.com/misterdorito/postgresql_tools_chart .