PGO, the Crunchy Postgres Operator 4.7 Released: PVC Resize, GCS, Advanced Cloning, and more!

[Crunchy Data](https://www.crunchydata.com) is pleased to announce the release of version 4.7 of PGO, the [Postgres Operator](https://www.github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator) from Crunchy Data, which automates and simplifies deploying and managing open source [Postgres](https://www.postgresql.org) clusters on Kubernetes and other Kubernetes-enabled Platforms. Instructions for [getting started with the Postgres Operator](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/quickstart/) can be found here:

[https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/quickstart/](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/quickstart/)

or get started by running:

```
kubectl create ns pgo;
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator/v4.7.0/installers/kubectl/postgres-operator.yml
```

PGO 4.7, designed for high availability PostgreSQL workloads on Kubernetes, adds support for more "Day 2" functions, such as PVC resize operations with minimal downtime, and enhancements to the monitoring system with a focus on query performance metrics, backups, and recovery. PGO 4.7 expands its support for GitOps methods and includes additional extensions, including, pg\_partman, pg\_cron, and TimescaleDB.

Major features of the PGO 4.7 release include:

- [Resize PVCs](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/custom-resources/#resize-pvc), which uses a [rolling update](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/architecture/high-availability/#rolling-updates) to minimize or eliminate downtime and work with older versions of Kubernetes.
- [Store Backups in Google Cloud Storage (GCS)](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/architecture/disaster-recovery/#using-gcs), providing an additional blog storage system for storing backups. PGO GCS support also works for [multi-cluster Kubernetes + Postgres deployments](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/architecture/high-availability/multi-cluster-kubernetes/).
- [Clone Databases Across Namespaces](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/pgo-client/common-tasks/#full-restore-across-namespaces), allowing for workloads to move between environments.
- [Toggle TLS in Active Clusters](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/tutorial/tls/#add-tls-to-an-existing-postgresql-cluster) so you can add TLS to an existing Postgres cluster.
- [New Monitoring features](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/architecture/monitoring/), including query performance analytics, more insights into backups + recovery, and a new alerting dashboard.
- New and Updated Extensions: PGO 4.7 includes [PostGIS](http://postgis.net/) 3.1, [pg_partman](https://github.com/pgpartman/pg_partman), [pg_cron](https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron), and [TimescaleDB](https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb).

and more.

For a full list of features, including detailed descriptions of these changes, please see the [release notes](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/releases/4.7.0/).

### Links

- [Project Repo](https://www.github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator)
- [Download](https://www.crunchydata.com/developers/download-postgres/containers/postgres-operator)
- [Documentation](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/)
- [Tutorial](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/tutorial/)
- [Release Notes](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operator/latest/releases/4.7.0/)

[Crunchy Data](https://www.crunchydata.com) is proud to support the development and maintenance of [PGO](https://www.github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator), the [Postgres Operator](https://www.github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator) from Crunchy Data.