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Implements an instance of the IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL service.
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Implements an instance of the IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL service.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/terraform-ibm-modules/terraform-ibm-icd-postgresql
- Owner: terraform-ibm-modules
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2023-01-31T11:24:58.000Z (over 3 years ago)
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- Last Pushed: 2026-03-15T00:14:53.000Z (4 months ago)
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- Topics: core-team, deployable-architecture, graduated, ibm-cloud, postgresql, supported, terraform, terraform-module
- Language: HCL
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# IBM Cloud Databases for Postgresql module
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This module implements an instance of the IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL service.
:exclamation: The module does not support major version upgrades or updates to encryption and backup encryption keys. To upgrade the version, create another instance of Databases for PostgreSQL with the updated version and follow the steps in [Upgrading PostgreSQL docs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=databases-for-postgresql-upgrading&interface=cli) in the IBM Cloud Docs.
:exclamation: The module only supports setting the disk encryption and backup encryption key CRNs on creation and no update support is available. The KMS manual or automatic key rotation may be used to change the key value and initiate the re-encryption of the deployment.
## Overview
* [terraform-ibm-icd-postgresql](#terraform-ibm-icd-postgresql)
* [Submodules](./modules)
* [fscloud](./modules/fscloud)
* [Examples](./examples)
:information_source: Ctrl/Cmd+Click or right-click on the Schematics deploy button to open in a new tab
* Restore from backup example
* Basic with read-only replica example
* Complete example with BYOK encryption, CBR rules and VPE creation
* Financial Services Cloud profile example with autoscaling enabled
* Point in time recovery example (PITR)
* [Deployable Architectures](./solutions)
* Cloud automation for PostgreSQL (Fully configurable)
* Cloud automation for PostgreSQL (Security enforced)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
## terraform-ibm-icd-postgresql
### Usage
IBM Cloud Databases supports:
- Key Protect encryption in `us-south`, `us-east`, and `eu-de` for backup encryption. For more information, see [Bring Your Own Key for Backups](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-key-protect&interface=ui#key-byok) in the IBM Cloud Docs.
- Hyper Protect Crypto Services in all regions for backup encryption. For more information, see [Hyper Protect Crypto Services for Backup encryption](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-hpcs#use-hpcs-backups) in the IBM Cloud Docs.
If you enable key management encryption and no value is passed for 'backup_encryption_key_crn', the value of 'kms_key_crn' is used
```hcl
provider "ibm" {
ibmcloud_api_key = "XXXXXXXXXX"
region = "us-south"
}
module "postgresql_db" {
source = "terraform-ibm-modules/icd-postgresql/ibm"
version = "latest" # Replace "latest" with a release version to lock into a specific release
resource_group_id = "xxXXxxXXxXxXXXXxxXxxxXXXXxXXXXX"
name = "my-instance"
region = "us-south"
}
```
## Required IAM access policies
You need the following permissions to run this module.
- Account Management
- **Databases for PostgreSQL** service
- `Editor` role access
To attach access management tags to resources in this module, you need the following permissions.
- IAM Services
- **Tagging** service
- `Administrator` platform access
### Requirements
| Name | Version |
|------|---------|
| [terraform](#requirement\_terraform) | >= 1.9.0 |
| [ibm](#requirement\_ibm) | >= 1.87.3, <2.0.0 |
| [time](#requirement\_time) | >= 0.9.1, < 1.0.0 |
### Modules
| Name | Source | Version |
|------|--------|---------|
| [available\_versions](#module\_available\_versions) | terraform-ibm-modules/common-utilities/ibm//modules/icd-versions | 1.4.2 |
| [backup\_key\_crn\_parser](#module\_backup\_key\_crn\_parser) | terraform-ibm-modules/common-utilities/ibm//modules/crn-parser | 1.4.2 |
| [cbr\_rule](#module\_cbr\_rule) | terraform-ibm-modules/cbr/ibm//modules/cbr-rule-module | 1.35.19 |
| [kms\_key\_crn\_parser](#module\_kms\_key\_crn\_parser) | terraform-ibm-modules/common-utilities/ibm//modules/crn-parser | 1.4.2 |
### Resources
| Name | Type |
|------|------|
| [ibm_database.postgresql_db](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs/resources/database) | resource |
| [ibm_iam_authorization_policy.backup_kms_policy](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs/resources/iam_authorization_policy) | resource |
| [ibm_iam_authorization_policy.kms_policy](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs/resources/iam_authorization_policy) | resource |
| [ibm_resource_key.service_credentials](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs/resources/resource_key) | resource |
| [ibm_resource_tag.access_tag](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs/resources/resource_tag) | resource |
| [time_sleep.wait_for_authorization_policy](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/time/latest/docs/resources/sleep) | resource |
| [time_sleep.wait_for_backup_kms_authorization_policy](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/time/latest/docs/resources/sleep) | resource |
| [ibm_database_connection.database_connection](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs/data-sources/database_connection) | data source |
| [ibm_database_point_in_time_recovery.source_db_earliest_pitr_time](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs/data-sources/database_point_in_time_recovery) | data source |
### Inputs
| Name | Description | Type | Default | Required |
|------|-------------|------|---------|:--------:|
| [access\_tags](#input\_access\_tags) | A list of access tags to apply to the PostgreSQL instance created by the module, see https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-access-tags-tutorial for more details | `list(string)` | `[]` | no |
| [admin\_pass](#input\_admin\_pass) | The password for the database administrator. If the admin password is null then the admin user ID cannot be accessed. More users can be specified in a user block. | `string` | `null` | no |
| [async\_restore](#input\_async\_restore) | Set it to `true`, to initiate the restore as an asynchronous operation, which helps to reduce end-to-end restore time. This feature can only be used when the source and target PostgreSQL databases are running the same major version. | `bool` | `false` | no |
| [auto\_scaling](#input\_auto\_scaling) | Optional rules to allow the database to increase resources in response to usage. Only a single autoscaling block is allowed. Make sure you understand the effects of autoscaling, especially for production environments. See https://ibm.biz/autoscaling-considerations in the IBM Cloud Docs. |
object({
disk = object({
capacity_enabled = optional(bool, false)
free_space_less_than_percent = optional(number, 10)
io_above_percent = optional(number, 90)
io_enabled = optional(bool, false)
io_over_period = optional(string, "15m")
rate_increase_percent = optional(number, 10)
rate_limit_mb_per_member = optional(number, 3670016)
rate_period_seconds = optional(number, 900)
rate_units = optional(string, "mb")
})
memory = object({
io_above_percent = optional(number, 90)
io_enabled = optional(bool, false)
io_over_period = optional(string, "15m")
rate_increase_percent = optional(number, 10)
rate_limit_mb_per_member = optional(number, 114688)
rate_period_seconds = optional(number, 900)
rate_units = optional(string, "mb")
})
}) | `null` | no |
| [backup\_crn](#input\_backup\_crn) | The CRN of a backup resource to restore from. The backup is created by a database deployment with the same service ID. The backup is loaded after provisioning and the new deployment starts up that uses that data. A backup CRN is in the format crn:v1:<…>:backup:. If omitted, the database is provisioned empty. | `string` | `null` | no |
| [backup\_encryption\_key\_crn](#input\_backup\_encryption\_key\_crn) | The CRN of a Key Protect or Hyper Protect Crypto Services encryption key that you want to use for encrypting the disk that holds deployment backups. Applies only if `use_ibm_owned_encryption_key` is false and `use_same_kms_key_for_backups` is false. If no value is passed, and `use_same_kms_key_for_backups` is true, the value of `kms_key_crn` is used. Alternatively set `use_default_backup_encryption_key` to true to use the IBM Cloud Databases default encryption. Bare in mind that backups encryption is only available in certain regions. See [Bring your own key for backups](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-key-protect&interface=ui#key-byok) and [Using the HPCS Key for Backup encryption](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-hpcs#use-hpcs-backups). | `string` | `null` | no |
| [cbr\_rules](#input\_cbr\_rules) | The context-based restrictions rule to create. Only one rule is allowed. | list(object({
description = string
account_id = string
rule_contexts = list(object({
attributes = optional(list(object({
name = string
value = string
}))) }))
enforcement_mode = string
tags = optional(list(object({
name = string
value = string
})))
})) | `[]` | no |
| [configuration](#input\_configuration) | Database configuration parameters, see https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=databases-for-postgresql-changing-configuration&interface=api for more details. | object({
shared_buffers = optional(number)
max_connections = optional(number)
# below field gives error when sent to provider
# tracking issue: https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm/issues/5403
# max_locks_per_transaction = optional(number)
max_prepared_transactions = optional(number)
synchronous_commit = optional(string)
effective_io_concurrency = optional(number)
deadlock_timeout = optional(number)
log_connections = optional(string)
log_disconnections = optional(string)
log_min_duration_statement = optional(number)
tcp_keepalives_idle = optional(number)
tcp_keepalives_interval = optional(number)
tcp_keepalives_count = optional(number)
archive_timeout = optional(number)
wal_level = optional(string)
max_replication_slots = optional(number)
max_wal_senders = optional(number)
}) | `null` | no |
| [cpu\_count](#input\_cpu\_count) | Allocated dedicated CPU per member. For shared CPU, set to 0. [Learn more](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=databases-for-postgresql-resources-scaling) | `number` | `0` | no |
| [create\_timeout](#input\_create\_timeout) | A database creation may require a longer timeout for the creation to complete. The default is 120 minutes. Set this variable to change the `create` value in the `timeouts` block. [Learn more](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/resources/syntax#operation-timeouts). | `string` | `"120m"` | no |
| [delete\_timeout](#input\_delete\_timeout) | A database deletion may require a longer timeout for the deletion to complete. The default is 15 minutes. Set this variable to change the `delete` value in the `timeouts` block. [Learn more](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/resources/syntax#operation-timeouts). | `string` | `"15m"` | no |
| [deletion\_protection](#input\_deletion\_protection) | Enable deletion protection within terraform. This is not a property of the resource and does not prevent deletion outside of terraform. The database can not be deleted by terraform when this value is set to 'true'. In order to delete with terraform the value must be set to 'false' and a terraform apply performed before the destroy is performed. The default is 'true'. | `bool` | `true` | no |
| [disk\_mb](#input\_disk\_mb) | Allocated disk per member. [Learn more](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=databases-for-postgresql-resources-scaling) | `number` | `5120` | no |
| [kms\_key\_crn](#input\_kms\_key\_crn) | The CRN of a Key Protect or Hyper Protect Crypto Services encryption key to encrypt your data. Applies only if `use_ibm_owned_encryption_key` is false. By default this key is used for both deployment data and backups, but this behaviour can be altered using the `use_same_kms_key_for_backups` and `backup_encryption_key_crn` inputs. Bare in mind that backups encryption is only available in certain regions. See [Bring your own key for backups](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-key-protect&interface=ui#key-byok) and [Using the HPCS Key for Backup encryption](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-hpcs#use-hpcs-backups). | `string` | `null` | no |
| [member\_host\_flavor](#input\_member\_host\_flavor) | Allocated host flavor per member. [Learn more](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs/resources/database#host_flavor). | `string` | `null` | no |
| [members](#input\_members) | Allocated number of members. Members can be scaled up but not down. | `number` | `2` | no |
| [memory\_mb](#input\_memory\_mb) | Allocated memory per member. [Learn more](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=databases-for-postgresql-resources-scaling) | `number` | `4096` | no |
| [name](#input\_name) | The name to give the Postgresql instance. | `string` | n/a | yes |
| [pitr\_id](#input\_pitr\_id) | (Optional) The ID of the source deployment PostgreSQL instance that you want to recover back to. The PostgreSQL instance is expected to be in an up and in running state. | `string` | `null` | no |
| [pitr\_time](#input\_pitr\_time) | (Optional) The timestamp in UTC format (%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ) for any time in the last 7 days that you want to restore to. If empty string ("") is passed, earliest\_point\_in\_time\_recovery\_time will be used as pitr\_time. To retrieve the timestamp, run the command (ibmcloud cdb postgresql earliest-pitr-timestamp ). For more info on Point-in-time Recovery, see https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=databases-for-postgresql-pitr | `string` | `null` | no |
| [postgresql\_version](#input\_postgresql\_version) | Version of the PostgreSQL instance. If no value is passed, the current preferred version of IBM Cloud Databases is used. | `string` | `null` | no |
| [region](#input\_region) | The region where you want to deploy your instance. | `string` | `"us-south"` | no |
| [remote\_leader\_crn](#input\_remote\_leader\_crn) | A CRN of the leader database to make the replica(read-only) deployment. The leader database is created by a database deployment with the same service ID. A read-only replica is set up to replicate all of your data from the leader deployment to the replica deployment by using asynchronous replication. For more information, see https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=databases-for-postgresql-read-only-replicas | `string` | `null` | no |
| [resource\_group\_id](#input\_resource\_group\_id) | The resource group ID where the PostgreSQL instance will be created. | `string` | n/a | yes |
| [service\_credential\_names](#input\_service\_credential\_names) | List of service credentials to create for the database, including name and optionally role and endpoint type. | list(object({
name = string
role = optional(string, "Viewer")
endpoint = optional(string, "private")
})) | `[]` | no |
| [service\_endpoints](#input\_service\_endpoints) | Specify whether you want to enable the public, private, or both service endpoints. Supported values are 'public', 'private', or 'public-and-private'. | `string` | `"private"` | no |
| [skip\_iam\_authorization\_policy](#input\_skip\_iam\_authorization\_policy) | Set to true to skip the creation of IAM authorization policies that permits all Databases for PostgreSQL instances in the given resource group 'Reader' access to the Key Protect or Hyper Protect Crypto Services key that was provided in the `kms_key_crn` and `backup_encryption_key_crn` inputs. This policy is required in order to enable KMS encryption, so only skip creation if there is one already present in your account. No policy is created if `use_ibm_owned_encryption_key` is true. | `bool` | `false` | no |
| [tags](#input\_tags) | Optional list of tags to be added to the PostgreSQL instance. | `list(string)` | `[]` | no |
| [update\_timeout](#input\_update\_timeout) | A database update may require a longer timeout for the update to complete. The default is 120 minutes. Set this variable to change the `update` value in the `timeouts` block. [Learn more](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/resources/syntax#operation-timeouts). | `string` | `"120m"` | no |
| [use\_default\_backup\_encryption\_key](#input\_use\_default\_backup\_encryption\_key) | When `use_ibm_owned_encryption_key` is set to false, backups will be encrypted with either the key specified in `kms_key_crn`, or in `backup_encryption_key_crn` if a value is passed. If you do not want to use your own key for backups encryption, you can set this to `true` to use the IBM Cloud Databases default encryption for backups. Alternatively set `use_ibm_owned_encryption_key` to true to use the default encryption for both backups and deployment data. | `bool` | `false` | no |
| [use\_ibm\_owned\_encryption\_key](#input\_use\_ibm\_owned\_encryption\_key) | IBM Cloud Databases will secure your deployment's data at rest automatically with an encryption key that IBM hold. Alternatively, you may select your own Key Management System instance and encryption key (Key Protect or Hyper Protect Crypto Services) by setting this to false. If setting to false, a value must be passed for the `kms_key_crn` input. | `bool` | `true` | no |
| [use\_same\_kms\_key\_for\_backups](#input\_use\_same\_kms\_key\_for\_backups) | Set this to false if you wan't to use a different key that you own to encrypt backups. When set to false, a value is required for the `backup_encryption_key_crn` input. Alternatively set `use_default_backup_encryption_key` to true to use the IBM Cloud Databases default encryption. Applies only if `use_ibm_owned_encryption_key` is false. Bare in mind that backups encryption is only available in certain regions. See [Bring your own key for backups](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-key-protect&interface=ui#key-byok) and [Using the HPCS Key for Backup encryption](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-hpcs#use-hpcs-backups). | `bool` | `true` | no |
| [users](#input\_users) | A list of users that you want to create on the database. Multiple blocks are allowed. The user password must be in the range of 10-32 characters. Be warned that in most case using IAM service credentials (via the var.service\_credential\_names) is sufficient to control access to the Postgres instance. This blocks creates native postgres database users, more info on that can be found here https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=databases-for-postgresql-user-management&interface=ui | list(object({
name = string
password = string # pragma: allowlist secret
type = optional(string)
role = optional(string)
})) | `[]` | no |
| [version\_upgrade\_skip\_backup](#input\_version\_upgrade\_skip\_backup) | Whether to skip taking a backup before upgrading the database version. Attention: Skipping a backup is not recommended. Skipping a backup before a version upgrade is dangerous and may result in data loss if the upgrade fails at any stage — there will be no immediate backup to restore from. | `bool` | `false` | no |
### Outputs
| Name | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [adminuser](#output\_adminuser) | Database admin user name |
| [cbr\_rule\_ids](#output\_cbr\_rule\_ids) | CBR rule ids created to restrict Postgresql |
| [certificate\_base64](#output\_certificate\_base64) | Database connection certificate |
| [crn](#output\_crn) | Postgresql instance crn |
| [guid](#output\_guid) | Postgresql instance guid |
| [hostname](#output\_hostname) | Database connection hostname |
| [id](#output\_id) | Postgresql instance id |
| [pitr\_time](#output\_pitr\_time) | Postgresql instance id |
| [port](#output\_port) | Database connection port |
| [service\_credentials\_json](#output\_service\_credentials\_json) | Service credentials json map |
| [service\_credentials\_object](#output\_service\_credentials\_object) | Service credentials object |
| [version](#output\_version) | Postgresql instance version |
## Contributing
You can report issues and request features for this module in GitHub issues in the module repo. See [Report an issue or request a feature](https://github.com/terraform-ibm-modules/.github/blob/main/.github/SUPPORT.md).
To set up your local development environment, see [Local development setup](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/local-dev-setup) in the project documentation.