A Comprehensive Guide to Setting Up Spicedb with PostgreSQL and a Monitoring Stack

In this post, we will learn how to use the kind to set up Authzed Spicedb with a PostgreSQL database on a local Kubernetes cluster. Also, we will set up a monitoring stack with the help of kube-prometheus-stack.

Architecture

Prerequisites:

• kind
• kubectl
• zed (Spicedb client)
• helm
• grpcurl (optional)
• git
• Docker

Setup code repository

Start by cloning the spicedb-postgres-kube repository from GitHub using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/akoserwal/spicedb-postgres-kube.git

Run the setup script

./setup.sh  

The script will create a local Kubernetes cluster using kind.

creating kind cluster
Creating cluster "sp-cluster" ...
 ✓ Ensuring node image (kindest/node:v1.25.3) 🖼 
 ✓ Preparing nodes 📦  
 ✓ Writing configuration 📜 
 ✓ Starting control-plane 🕹️ 
 ✓ Installing CNI 🔌 
 ✓ Installing StorageClass 💾 
Set kubectl context to "kind-sp-cluster"
You can now use your cluster with:

kubectl cluster-info --context…