DevOps is a new and revolutionary way in which to deploy applications and services, including tools for automation, continuous development, integration, and deployment. Usually, frequent delays can occur in Agile deployment sprints when databases are added to the continuous integration and deployment stages, especially PostgreSQL databases. So, DevOps can provide various tools for PostgreSQL database deployment, automation, and scalability.
Among DevOps' tools, Vagrant and VirtualBox are two pieces of software that focus on automation tasks. They allow you to develop and manage virtual machines and environments in a single workflow. They reduce the development environment setup time. Additionally, the benefits of PostgreSQL in a virtual machine are that they are able to standardize the operating system to provide a consistent environment, and they will completely isolate unrelated databases from each other. Using Vagrant and VirtualBox, it only takes a couple of minutes to create a fresh PostgreSQL database server.
Also, Vagrant integrates with other DevOps configuration management tools such as Ansible and Terraform; these are two infrastructure tools that provide script templates to start PostgreSQL database clusters automatically on the cloud. Ansible and Terraform are good ways in which to automate PostgreSQL in order to speed up the development process.
The goal of database automation by DevOps is clear: your PostgreSQL servers will appear the same. Therefore, your PostgreSQL servers will obtain consistency through the quality assurance, staging, and production phases. Puppet is also a well-known DevOps tool that we can use to manage PostgreSQL configuration files, the Postgres user, and PostgreSQL backup crontabs. In comparison, Jenkins, a DevOps tool, can be used to deploy and test virtually any software project. Jenkins can also contribute to the automation of PostgreSQL test databases during software testing tasks.
