Crunchy Data

Crunchy is a Postgres hosting provider.

Electric and Crunchy

You can use Electric with Crunchy Bridge, their managed cloud Postgres product.

Need context?

See the Deployment guide for more details.

Deploy Postgres

Sign up to Crunchy Bridge and go through the steps to create a cluster.

Go to the "Connection" tab, select "URL", set the role to "postgres (superuser)" and copy the connection string.

You can then run Electric with this connection string as the DATABASE_URL, e.g.:

docker run -it \
    -e "DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:****@p.YOUR_CLUSTER_ID.db.postgresbridge.com:5432/postgres" \
    electricsql/electric:latest

You can also use the postgres superuser to create other users with the REPLICATION role, e.g.:

CREATE ROLE electric WITH REPLICATION LOGIN PASSWORD '...';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE "postgres" to electric;

You can then connect as the new electric user.

Need somewhere to host Electric?

If you need somewhere to deploy Electric then Crunchy works well with Render.