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Because of the compatibility with PostgreSQL, you can use AlloyDB Omni on a VM with a wide range of open-source PostgreSQL tools. This section covers some of the open-source PostgreSQL tools that work with AlloyDB Omni. This document assumes that you are familiar with PostgreSQL.

Barman

Barman is an open-source administration tool designed for PostgreSQL server disaster recovery and management. For more information, see Set up Barman for AlloyDB Omni.

Patroni

Patroni is an open-source tool that manages and automates high availability (HA) for PostgreSQL clusters.

pgAdmin

pgAdmin is an open-source administration and development platform that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to manage PostgreSQL databases and their objects.

pg_auto_failover

pg_auto_failover is an open-source PostgreSQL extension that simplifies the process of setting up and managing a highly available AlloyDB Omni environment.

pgBackRest

pgBackRest is an open-source database backup tool that you can use to back up and restore your AlloyDB Omni database clusters. For more information about backup and restore with pgBackRest, see Set up pgBackRest for AlloyDB Omni.