pgdog
★ 5.5kGNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Source — No Paywall4 Containers — 4 containers — moderate hosting footprintK8s · Helm · ComposeNeeds Postgres28+ active committers (12mo)
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PgDog is a PostgreSQL proxy designed to help scale database traffic by sitting between applications and PostgreSQL servers. It targets operators who need connection pooling, read/write routing, shard...
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Features
- connection pooling
- load balancing
- query routing
- sharding
- health checks
- transaction pooling
- single endpoint for reads and writes
- failover support
- password-based authentication
- AWS RDS IAM authentication
Details
- Last Updated
- Sep 8, 2026
- Created
- Dec 27, 2024
- Install Methods
- kuberneteshelmdocker-compose
- Requirements
- Docker ComposePostgreSQLAWS RDSAzure Workload Identity
- Authentication
- local
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓4 Containers — moderate hosting footprintRuns as 4 containers
Docker Compose
4 services · database: postgres · infra: postgres
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (5 volumes)
docker-compose.yml · @ 36434f9 · scanned Jun 10, 2026
services:
pgdog:
image: ghcr.io/pgdogdev/pgdog:main
volumes:
- ./docker/pgdog.toml:/pgdog/pgdog.toml
- ./docker/users.toml:/pgdog/users.toml
ports:
- 6432:6432
networks:
- postgres
environment:
RUST_LOG: debug
shard_0:
image: postgres:18
environment:
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
volumes:
- ./docker/setup.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/setup.sql
networks:
- postgres
# ...
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