Patroni
Hacker ApprovedPostgres failover manager in Hosting & cloud
Recommended for automatic PostgreSQL failover and reliable cluster management. Critics mainly worry it could be de-supported or go away.
Recommended for automatic PostgreSQL failover and reliable cluster management. Critics mainly worry it could be de-supported or go away.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Automatic failover for Postgres clusters
“I get an off-the-shelf declarative deployment of an HA postgres cluster with automatic failover with a little boiler-plate YAML.”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres” “really nice and reliable PostgreSQL distribution that provides automatic failover”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email” “handles automatic failures and cluster management quite well”
Comment from 10 Jun 2026 in “PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you” - Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres”
Reliable and stable in production
“really nice and reliable PostgreSQL distribution that provides automatic failover”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email” “We use patroni and run it outside of k8s on prem, no issues in 6 or 7 years.”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres” “our Patroni clusters were much more performant and stable”
Comment from 3 Apr 2026 in “Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer” Runs on a few self-managed nodes
“We use patroni and run it outside of k8s on prem, no issues in 6 or 7 years.”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres” “which is great since you can just run it onto 3-4 nodes”
Comment from 17 Jan 2026 in “Elasticsearch Was Never a Database”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Painful to set up and operate
“It’s a pain, but I believe there was some kind of coolify-style open source application”
Comment from 30 Apr 2026 in “Does Postgres Scale?” “you need to understand replication options, potentially deal with Patroni”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres” Failed tests with critical problems
“I tested Patroni which seems to be a popular choice but found some pretty critical problems”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres” “Someone tried it with Patroni and failed miserably”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “It's 2026, Just Use Postgres”
What people recommend instead
The same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PatroniThis page | 12 | 3 | 80% | 5 | — | Approved |
| Autobase | 6 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
16 of the 18 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“But I sure wish it was 'core' and we didn't have to worry about it potentially going away, becoming de-supported..”
“handles automatic failures and cluster management quite well”
“Patroni serves this niche pretty well at this point.”
“It’s a pain, but I believe there was some kind of coolify-style open source application”
“our Patroni clusters were much more performant and stable”
“really nice and reliable PostgreSQL distribution that provides automatic failover”
“Someone tried it with Patroni and failed miserably”
“Patroni, which doesn't provide container images”
“which is great since you can just run it onto 3-4 nodes”
“For HA, Patroni, stolon, CNPG”
“StackGres relies instead on the trusted and reputed Patroni, which is known NOT to risk split brains that could lead to severe data loss.”
“Ideally, use something like Patroni for automatic failover.”
“I tested Patroni which seems to be a popular choice but found some pretty critical problems”
“you need to understand replication options, potentially deal with Patroni”
“We use patroni and run it outside of k8s on prem, no issues in 6 or 7 years.”
“I get an off-the-shelf declarative deployment of an HA postgres cluster with automatic failover with a little boiler-plate YAML.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.