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PlanetScale adds Postgres and Neki databases on Azure

planetscale.com by Joe Miller, Matt Layher 3 min read Editor score 6/10

PlanetScale is available in three Azure regions with high availability across three availability zones, backups and Query Insights; Vitess is not yet supported. Teams can now colocate these database workloads with Azure-based applications.

What
PlanetScale offers Postgres and Neki databases in select Azure regions; Vitess is not currently available there.
How
Each node gets /28 blocks of 16 IPs; a background service tracks them, and a CNI plugin assigns pod IPs locally.
Why it matters
Block allocation raises pod-IP capacity per network 16x, to over a million, and keeps the Kubernetes API server out of each pod start.
assigns blocks block info tracks blocks assigns pod IP Azure virtualnetwork networkinterface backgroundservice CNI plugin pod
Azure IP blocks flow through node services to the pods that use them. Sketched from the article's own text.

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