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</html><description>Now that we know how we can benchmark a CloudNativePG deployment, it is time to look at how we can connect external applications to the PostgreSQL cluster. Usually, applications run in the same Kubernetes cluster and can directly talk to our PostgreSQL deployment, but sometimes it is required to also connect with external applications or [&hellip;]</description></oembed>
