In the MySQL ecosystem, orchestrator is the most popular and well-respected high availability and topology management tool, integrating well with other solutions such as ProxySQL. It facilitates automatic (or manual) discovery, refactoring and recovery of a replicated MySQL environment, and comes complete with both command-line (CLI) and web interfaces for both humans and machines […]
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In this article, we will take a look at how to run Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server in a container without root privileges.
Some of the concerns companies have about using Docker relate to the security risks that exist due to the requirement for root privileges in order to run the service and therefore […]
Python 2 reaches EOL on 2020-01-01 and one of its commonly used third-party packages is MySQL-python. If you have not yet migrated away from both of these, since MySQL-python does not support Python 3, then you may have come across some issues if you are using more recent versions of MySQL and are enforcing […]
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Last week I came across a bug in MySQL 8.0, which meant that the absence of mysql.user leads to auto-apply of –skip-grant-tables (#94394) would leave MySQL running in an undesirable state. My colleague Sveta Smirnova blogged about the issue and it also caught the interest of Valeriy Kravchuk in Fun with Bugs #80 – […]
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When deciding on your backup strategy, one of the key components for Point In Time Recovery (PITR) will be the binary logs. Thankfully, the mysqlbinlog command allows you to easily take binary log backups, including those that would otherwise be encrypted on disk using encrypt_binlog=ON. (more…)
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