zalando / zalando/postgres-operator
Workload Identity not working in logical backups for GCS
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Description
- Which image of the operator are you using?
registry.opensource.zalan.do/acid/postgres-operator:v1.11.0 - Where do you run it - cloud or metal?
GKE cloud - Are you running Postgres Operator in production?
yes - Type of issue?
Bug report
Steps to reproduce
- Deploy Zalando Postgres Operator with Workload Identity/ Application default credentials using k8s service account that is linked to GCP IAM service account and has permissions to GCS bucket
- Enable logical backups to GCS
- Wait for backup jobs to start failing
- Seems like WAL archiving is working properly only logical backups are having issues
Expected outcome
Logical backups are uploaded without issues to GCS bucket. It seems to me that gsutil used in backup job is not properly inheriting service account or doesn't even try to expand Application Default Credentials
Actual Outcome
Logical backups are failing constantly, WAL archiving works
Configuration
image:
registry: registry.opensource.zalan.do
repository: acid/postgres-operator
tag: v1.11.0
pullPolicy: "Always"
enableJsonLogging: true
configGeneral:
workers: 8
podServiceAccount:
name: postgres-operator-gcp
configUsers:
replication_username: standby
super_username: postgres
configKubernetes:
cluster_name_label: dev-k8s
enable_cross_namespace_secret: true
enable_pod_antiaffinity: true
pod_antiaffinity_topology_key: "kubernetes.io/hostname"
pod_environment_configmap: "postgres/pod-env-overrides"
secret_name_template: "{username}.{cluster}.credentials"
delete_annotation_date_key: "delete-date"
delete_annotation_name_key: "delete-clustername"
configLoadBalancer:
db_hosted_zone: db.dev.internal.com
configAwsOrGcp:
wal_gs_bucket: "postgres-wal"
configLogicalBackup:
# this is used also for gcs despite name
logical_backup_s3_bucket: "postgres-backups"
logical_backup_provider: "gcs"
logical_backup_schedule: "30 00 * * *"
configTeamsApi:
pam_role_name: db
resources:
limits:
cpu: 500m
memory: 500Mi
requests:
cpu: 100m
memory: 250Mi
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the failing logical backup job with the shown GKE Workload Identity configuration, then compare how logical backups and WAL archiving obtain Google Cloud credentials. Done means logical backups upload successfully to the configured GCS bucket while WAL archiving continues to work.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, google-cloud, kubernetes, postgresql
- Domain
- cloud, databases, infrastructure
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100