# Autobase

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/autobase/

6 people recommended Autobase in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 4 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

4 of the 6 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Go ahead, self-host Postgres”.

**Verdict:** Free Ansible roles that deploy and manage highly available PostgreSQL clusters on Hetzner, other clouds, or bare metal, and people call it the easiest way to set one up.

Summary written by Claude from 6 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Automates highly available PostgreSQL cluster management (2 comments in the sample): "automates the deployment and management of highly available PostgreSQL clusters in production environments" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344059)) "something that takes care of all that extra work for you" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337141))
- Runs on clouds, bare metal, VMs (2 comments in the sample): "I also recommend autobase, a set of ansible roles for a highly available postgres cluster on hetzner or other clouds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996691)) "a system-level operator designed to run directly on bare metal or virtual machines" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480786))
- Default choice for Postgres high availability (2 comments in the sample): "The easiest way to set it up is using Autobase" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337258)) "autobase[1] is the one I can think of" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967722))

## What people recommend instead

- [Patroni](https://hackerapproved.com/p/patroni/): 8 recommend, 2 mixed, 3 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Autobase", https://hackerapproved.com/p/autobase/ (6 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.