Datastores

A datastore is a managed database attached to a service environment. Kuberns supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.

You create a datastore from an environment's Resources tab. Once it exists, it also appears under Datastores in the platform navigation, where it gets its own pages. The listing shows each database with its environment, type, status, and creation date.

Overview

The Overview page holds the connection details your application needs — database name, username, password, and hostname — along with current memory and storage usage and the latest backup information.

Keep application-facing credentials in environment variables rather than in your repository.

Metrics

The Metrics page reports RAM and storage usage over time, and is where alert configuration for the datastore is available.

Backups

You can take a backup at any time, and you can enable automatic backups on a fixed interval. Completed backups are listed with their status, and each one can be downloaded or deleted.

Restoring a backup

Kuberns does not restore a backup into a running datastore for you. A backup is a dump you download and load yourself, using the standard client for your database — for example psql, mysql, or mongorestore.

Plan for this before you need it: verify that a downloaded backup restores into a local or staging database, so the procedure is known and tested ahead of an incident.

Settings

Settings exposes the database password, storage upgrades for the current plan, and deletion of the datastore.

Deleting a datastore is irreversible. Download any backup you still need first.