+1 and +1 to what @neuman said. I'd vote this be framed more like "change
TO secret store to a Plugin interface, and ATC will provide a Postgres
Plugin."

I'd also like to note, I believe our company has a legal requirement to
have a separate "secret" database, so the Postgres secret store needs to at
least have the ability to be a separate DB URL+auth than the primary TO
Postgres DB.


On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 2:13 PM Dave Neuman <neu...@apache.org> wrote:

> I am +1 for using Postgres, however we should consider implementing the
> "secret store" functionality in such a way that people can choose to
> implement whatever backend they want.  I think it can be accomplished using
> the TO plugin functionality but I am sure people more familiar with the
> code these days would know better.  This would also provide a built in way
> to migrate from one to the other without forcing everyone to change.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 1:48 PM Rawlin Peters <raw...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I hope by now everyone can agree that we need to replace Riak (it's
> > been unmaintained for quite some time now). However, we might not all
> > agree yet on what it should be replaced with (at least not
> > officially). We've discussed it in threads here and there, but I'd
> > like to get some official consensus before we really hit the ground
> > running.
> >
> > I would like to propose that we replace Riak with PostgreSQL.
> >
> > Here are some of the reasons that I can think of (and have been
> > mentioned by others in the past) for us to use PostgreSQL:
> > - we all have much experience running it in production (because we
> > already run it for the Traffic Ops database)
> > - it would simplify ATC deployments by removing one more component
> > from the system
> > - it would simplify development as ATC devs are already familiar with
> > traditional SQL databases, and we could reuse a lot of the existing
> > code
> > - it has a healthy community of support and doesn't seem to be losing
> > steam anytime soon (it still remains the 2nd most popular OSS
> > relational database behind MySQL [1])
> >
> > I would like this thread to focus on the merits (or lack thereof) of
> > using PostgreSQL as a replacement for Riak. We can discuss the
> > low-level implementation details separately in the blueprint I will
> > propose as a follow-up to this discussion. Unless someone is
> > vehemently -1 on using PostgreSQL to replace Riak, I will take silence
> > as assent and move forward with the blueprint process.
> >
> > - Rawlin
> >
> > [1] https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_osvsc
> >
>

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