This is the first of a two-part series on using the keyring_vault plugin with Percona Server for MySQL 5.7. The second part will walk you through on how to use Percona Xtrabackup to backup from this instance and restore to another server and set it up as a slave with keyring_vault plugin. What is the […]
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In this blog post, I will show you how easy it is to set up a Percona Monitoring and Management server on Google Compute Engine from the command line. First off you will need to have a Google account and install the Cloud SDK tool. You need to create a GCP (Google Cloud Platform) project […]
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In this blog post, we demonstrate a new feature in ProxySQL Admin: support for multiple clusters. In a previous blog post, Ramesh and Roel introduced a new tool that helps configured Percona XtraDB Cluster nodes into ProxySQL. However, at that time it only worked for a single cluster per ProxySQL Admin configuration. Starting from ProxySQL […]
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Security is one of the hottest topics lately, and in this blog post, I will walk you through what needs to be configured to have a working three-node Percona XtraDB Cluster running with InnoDB Tablespace Encryption enabled. This article will not cover the basics of setting up a cluster nor will it cover how to […]
Read MoreIn my previous post I showed you how to setup Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on Docker. This time I will show you how to setup Percona ClusterControl and add the existing Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 that we’ve managed to setup from the previous post. Let us note the following details about our existing containers: 172.17.0.2 […]
Read MoreIn my previous post, I blogged about using Percona Server with Docker and have shown you how fast and easy it was to create a virtual environment with just a few commands. This time I will be showing you how to setup a three-node Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 5.6 on the Docker open-source engine. Just […]
Read MoreThere are a couple of posts about setting up Percona XtraDB Cluster on Vagrant and Percona Server on MySQL Sandbox – those are two of the top tools used by the Percona Support team for testing and bug processing among other things. In this post, however, I will show you how to use Docker with […]
Read MoreThis is the first in a series of posts highlighting a few of the seldom-used but still handy Percona Toolkit tools. Have you ever had a problem understanding the EXPLAIN statement output? And are you the type of person who would rather use the command line than a GUI application? Then I would recommend that […]
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