Different connectivity methods for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

I am writing this blog to explain different methods for connecting Azure Database for PostgreSQL server those who knows Azure but never worked in PostgreSQL. So, I will not be explaining how to manage databases but managing the PaaS from the portal. You may review details of this PaaS service from the Microsoft documentation to understand details like the SKUs, different plan, generations etc. I am just sharing some of my experience when I tried to deal with this for the first time.

Before we get into the connectivity methods, let’s talk about deploying PostgreSQL with the General-Purpose performance configuration which I think it is important . The available Generation is 5 as Generation 4 is not available for the deployment.

We can use either ARM templates or portal to perform the deployment. There are few ARM templates for PostgreSQL available in the Gibhub.

There are few things you need to remember when you input the parameters using ARM. The below things might confuse you.

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