This month, we’re taking the wraps off something really big — mountainous, in fact. It’s Percona Everest, our brand new, open source, cloud-native database platform, and it’s now generally available to the public. Percona Everest enables the deployment of an automated private DBaaS, eliminating vendor lock-in and complex in-house platform development. It empowers developers to quickly create enterprise-ready database instances of MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL in a cloud-native way using Kubernetes. With this platform, developers can deploy and scale code faster, more securely, and cost-effectively, all while avoiding vendor lock-in.
Fighting back against public DBaaS vendor lock-in
As organizations look to build more products and services in the cloud, they are encountering an increasing number of challenges associated with public database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings. These services often cultivate vendor lock-in, making it difficult for customers to maintain control over data portability, database configurations, and costs. We launched Percona Everest to put the control back in the hands of the customer.
The benefits of Percona Everest
Percona Everest is the first open source platform designed for automated database provisioning and management, supporting multiple database technologies with the freedom to host on any Kubernetes infrastructure: in the cloud and on-premises. By leveraging automation, users can create product-ready open source database clusters in minutes. Think platform engineering purpose-built for database deployment and administration. Better still, this can be done independently or with the support of Percona’s team of database performance experts.
Databases with Percona Everest come in both options: pre-configured with optimal parameters and with precise resource allocation, enabling users to launch and connect a database instance to any application within minutes. Unlike public DBaaS solutions, Everest’s precise allocation of resources allows users to reap the full benefits of Kubernetes and its resource optimization capabilities.
Percona Everest reduces the infrastructure costs of running workloads on Kubernetes by more than 50 percent compared to public DBaaS, allowing users to pay only for the data and utilize essential automation from solid open source software.
Key features of Percona Everest
Percona Everest offers a wide range of capabilities for database provisioning, management, and monitoring, as well as numerous security and user management features:
- Multi-cloud and on-premises deployments: Deploy databases across multiple clouds or on-premises infrastructure, ensuring redundancy, high availability, and data sovereignty.
- Multi-database support: Manage MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL within a single, unified platform.
- Private deployments and DIY: Maintain privacy and security with private deployments and customize every aspect of the database setup.
- Centralized configuration management: Simplify administrative tasks with centralized management of storage locations, monitoring endpoints, storage classes, and other default configurations.
- Comprehensive monitoring: Gain insights into performance metrics and query analysis with the integrated Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) tool.
- Single Sign-On (SSO) integration: Centralize user authentication and enhance security across your database deployments.
- Comprehensive activity tracking: Monitor the health and security of databases with a detailed activity log.
- Secure backups: Protect databases with logical and physical backups.
- Enhanced disaster recovery: Configure backup schedules, generate on-demand backups, and execute point-in-time recovery seamlessly.
- Easy 1-command installation: Simplify installation with the Everestctl CLI tool.
- Friendly UI: Easily create, scale, back up, and restore databases without complex YAML files and terminal commands.
- Database storage class support: Tailor storage requirements with advanced database storage class support.
- Support for EKS, GKE, and vanilla Kubernetes: Ensure compatibility with popular Kubernetes environments.
Percona Everest is now generally available, offering a powerful tool for enterprises to manage their databases with greater control, security, and efficiency. Learn more about Percona Everest or contact sales to get started today.
