repmgr and other projects listed here were considered and heavily tested initially. While each of them are great projects, we needed a solution that was fully automated in both cluster configuration&#x2F;initialization as well as cluster recovery and migration. Many of these projects were inspirational in the design of yoke. You can read our vision for an &quot;automated, API-driven infrastructure&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nanopack.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nanopack.io</a>) for further clarification on why yoke was needed.