This vagrant is a local instance of what is used in real life production. It will build a cluster of Postgres database machines of postgres that will:

• Be under control of repmgr
• with a VIP managed by keepalived
• master/slave HA 'sensing' by custom haproxy test configuration with https://github.com/gplv2/haproxy-postgresql
• multi slave support
• uses Centos because we use Redhat at work (would much rather do this in the debian family)
• pgbouncer in front of DB, behind haproxy

Tested version at the moment : PG 11 and PG 12, PG 13 Set your version in the scripts/variables file

• first create the postgresql shared key to setup trust : vagrant push
• then : vagrant up
• and of course: vagrant ssh db1 , db2 etc

Visit the haproxy url to see who is master : http://192.168.88.5:8182/haproxy?stats

Login in the second node: vagrant ssh db2 and switch over the cluster like this:

sudo su -
su - postgres
repmgr cluster show
repmgr standby switchover

Then visit the haproxy url and see the role switch result

To connect to the 'testdb' database you can use different ports which will mean different services

Connect to the HA port psql postgres://test:[email protected]:5432/testdb

psql postgres://test:[email protected]:6432/testdb

psql postgres://test:[email protected]:7432/testdb

It's important to understand the differences between those 3 ports Flow is : HAPROXY -> PGBOUNCER -> DATABASE

Why pgbouncer on localhost :

Excellent article: https://www.depesz.com/2012/12/02/what-is-the-point-of-bouncing/

Every server has a pgbouncer, database and haproxy instance present (and of course a keepalived install) keepalived will only handle the VIP address, haproxy will only listen on port 5432 on the vip ip and is the only one that will, but since each node has a haproxy running at all times but it's only listening on the VIP.

So it's important to understand that when connecting to the VIP IP that you always land on the machine where keepalived owns the vip. This doesn't mean its the postgresql master server. The postgresql master server can be diffent from the keepalived master, they are not related at all, they operate independant

You can still connect to a specific server by using the non-vip IP's

psql postgres://test:[email protected]:6432/testdb

psql postgres://test:[email protected]:6432/testdb

psql postgres://test:[email protected]:7432/testdb

psql postgres://test:[email protected]:7432/testdb

Now it's time to have some fun watching keepalived in action Log into keepalived active node (ssh to the vip using vagrant user) ssh [email protected]

Check if the vip ip is present:

type ip a

Kill or stop keepalived

check again :

ip a

It should be gone now and present on the other node

Test the database connection to the VIP:

psql postgres://test:[email protected]:5432/testdb

Also check the haproxy interface, should still work again, but the name of the node has changed Visit the haproxy url to see who is master : http://192.168.88.5:8182/haproxy?stats