PostgreSQL as a Service

Perfectly configured and optimized PostgreSQL databases ready in 2 minutes.

elephantsql-broker is an ElephantSQL service broker for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes

1. create an API key for your ElephantSQL account
2. pick a Cloud Foundry provider. I'd suggest the Swisscom AppCloud
3. push the app, providing the API key and a username/password to secure the service broker with
4. register the service broker in your space (--space-scoped)
5. check cf marketplace to see your new available service plans

1. create a new service instance (cf cs)
2. bind the service instance to your app (cf bs), or create a service key (cf csk)
3. inspect the service binding/key, have a look at the credentials (cf env/cf sk)
4. use the given credentials to connect to your new Postgres database
5. enjoy!

By default the service broker will provision new elephantsql database instances in the configured region BROKER_API_DEFAULT_REGION (see manifest.yml) or if none configured at all it will use azure-arm::westeurope as default value. When issuing service provisioning requests to the service broker it is also possible to provide the region as an additional parameter.

$ cf create-service elephantsql hippo my-db -c '{"region": "amazon-web-services::eu-west-3"}'