Accelerate Greenplum Adoption with the GPRA Onboarding Service

At Mugnano Data Consulting, we understand the challenges of provisioning and operationalizing a Greenplum or Cloudberry data warehouse environment. Whether you’re deploying on physical infrastructure, virtual platforms, or the cloud, setting up a high-performance MPP database requires precision, expertise, and automation. That’s why we offer the Greenplum Onboarding Service, built around the Greenplum Reference Architecture (GPRA) and tailored to your environment.

What Is the Greenplum Onboarding Service?

The GPRA Onboarding Service provides a fully automated and customizable deployment experience for Greenplum or Cloudberry databases. Originally based on a Dell/VMware reference design, the GPRA tools have evolved into a vendor-agnostic framework that can bootstrap your environment across a variety of platforms.

Delivered as part of your onboarding engagement with Mugnano Data Consulting, this service includes Ansible-based automation, root-level system configurations, and DBA enablement tools designed to accelerate your Day-0 and Day-1 operations.

Key Features

Automated Infrastructure Bootstrap

• Validated OS packages (RedHat 7/8/9)

• Optimized storage mount options

• Kernel and SSH tuning

• System user setup (gpadmin)

• Network time sync and hostname resolution

• Software binary installs

• Resource group (version 1 or 2) prerequisite configuration

Customizable Architecture

• Local and externally-attached storage support

• Mirrorless or mirrored Greenplum deployments

• Cloud, Virtual, or Physical infrastructures

Role-Based Automation

• SysAdmins (root) use the Ansible playbooks to provision infrastructure.

• Operational DBAs (gpadmin) receive templated install scripts, pre-built gpconfigs, and test/validation utilities.

What’s Included?

• Ansible playbooks:

  • localhost.yml

  • gpdb_cluster.yml

    • common.yml

    • masters.yml

    • segments.yml,

• A validated directory layout with README-based runbooks

• Tools to handle minor upgrades, optional package installs, and database cluster validation

Day-0 and Day-2 Operations

Day-0 Operations

• Automate Greenplum installation via gpinitsytem

• Deploy optional packages and initial configurations

• Validate environment health using cluster-level checks

• Automate prerequisites for the Day-2 Operations kickstarter package

Day-2 Operations

(Offered via our separate DBA Enablement Service)

Upgrade Support

• Binary upgrade workflows

• Optional package reinstallation tools

• Version-aware ansible configurations

Why Choose Mugnano Data Consulting?

We bring decades of Greenplum expertise and have worked with deployments ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises to public sector agencies. The GPRA onboarding service reflects our commitment to automation, repeatability, and measurable results.

With our onboarding service, you’re not just installing software, you’re deploying a production-grade Greenplum platform with confidence.

What do our customers have to say?

Linked-In Recommendations from clients.

Interested in learning more?

Visit www.mugnanodc.com or contact us to schedule your Greenplum onboarding assessment.