About Greenplum for Kubernetes

Pivotal Greenplum for Kubernetes is an experimental product and is not intended for use in a production environment. Experimental features are subject to change without notice in future releases.

Pivotal Greenplum for Kubernetes utilizes the Kubernetes platform to help you quickly and reliably deploy Greenplum clusters that are tailored for a variety of use cases, such as analytical processing with business intelligence tools or high-performance ETL operations for data scientists. Post-deployment, Greenplum for Kubernetes helps you maintain your Greenplum cluster by expanding it to accommodate additional processing requirements or activating standby servers to maintain high availability.

The Greenplum for Kubernetes distribution provides Docker images with the Pivotal Greenplum Database software and the Greenplum Operator running on Ubuntu. The Greenplum Operator registers Pivotal Greenplum as a first-class resource within Kubernetes, and orchestrates the deployment, management, and deletion of Greenplum in Kubernetes, as directed by your requests. In most cases, you simply specify the desired Greenplum configuration in a declarative YAML-formatted file, and provide that file to the Greenplum Operator.

Pivotal Greenplum for Kubernetes currently also provides a bash script-based method to deploy Greenplum Database to Kubernetes. This method of deployment is now deprecated in favor of using the Greenplum Operator.