In this recipe, you will learn how to use EnterpriseDB PostgreSQL Cloud Database with your OpenShift applications. You can also use the Amazon RDS PostgreSQL DB instance in the same way we used the Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. EnterpriseDB Cloud Database allows you to set up a replicated, sharded, and highly available PostgreSQL cluster either on Amazon EC2 or the HP Cloud services. You can take periodic backups of your data and scale it horizontally without any administrative skills.
To complete this recipe, you will need an OpenShift application. Refer to the Creating an OpenShift application using the rhc command-line client recipe in Chapter 3, Creating and Managing Applications, for more information.
Perform the following steps to learn how to connect your OpenShift applications with the EnterpriseDB PostgreSQL database:
Go to http://www.enterprisedb.com/cloud-database/amazon, and click on Get Started...