Percona Server for PostgreSQL 18 by cloudimg

Percona Server for PostgreSQL 18

Percona Server for PostgreSQL is Percona's freely distributed distribution of PostgreSQL: the same upstream engine your applications already target, packaged with the production extension set that most teams otherwise assemble by hand. Client drivers, SQL, extensions and on disk format are all stock PostgreSQL, so moving a workload in or out is a restore rather than a rewrite. Everything is installed from Percona's own package repository onto a hardened, fully patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base.

Observability and compliance in the box

pg_stat_monitor, Percona's replacement for pg_stat_statements, is pre loaded and enabled. It aggregates query statistics into time buckets and records client, plan and histogram detail, so you can see not just which statements are slow but when and from where. pgAudit is pre loaded and configured to record schema and role changes. pg_repack for online bloat removal and wal2json for logical replication feeds are installed and ready to enable.

Secure by default, with no database in the image

Most database images ship a ready made cluster and rotate its password on first boot. This one ships no cluster at all, so there is no default account and no seeded password anywhere in the image. On first boot each VM runs initdb to build a brand new cluster on its dedicated data volume, mints a unique superuser password and a unique TLS certificate, and writes them to a root only file. The database service is enabled so it survives every reboot, but it is gated on a marker that first boot writes only after those credentials exist, so an uninitialised cluster can never be served. No host based trust rule ships anywhere: local access is peer authenticated and every remote connection requires TLS plus a password.

What you get

• Percona Server for PostgreSQL 18 from Percona's official repository, running under systemd
• pg_stat_monitor and pgAudit pre loaded and enabled, pg_repack and wal2json installed
• A dedicated data volume holding the cluster separately from the operating system disk
• A per VM superuser password and a per VM TLS certificate generated on first boot, with no default login
• Unattended security upgrades left enabled, and 24/7 cloudimg support

Licensing

Percona Server for PostgreSQL is distributed under the PostgreSQL License, which covers both the PostgreSQL portions and Percona's own portions. It is permissive and free to redistribute, with no per core fee and no separate licence to buy. The cloudimg charge ($0.04 per vCPU/hour) covers packaging, security patching, image maintenance and 24/7 expert support.