In this day and age, large enterprise companies make use of Ansible, Puppet, or Chef to provision MySQL servers, be it replica sets or clusters. This eases the burden of deployment and workflow management.
However, for some smaller companies, the learning curve hampers the immediate adoption of automation software. This is where the MySQL Shell […]
To use Percona XtraBackup with keyring_vault plugin enabled you need to take some special measures to secure a working backup. This post addresses how to backup Percona Server for MySQL with keyring_vault plugin enabled. We also run through the steps needed to restore the backup from the master to a slave.
This is the second […]
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, Backing up Percona Server for MySQL with keyring_vault plugin enabled, walks through how to use Percona Xtrabackup to backup from this instance and restore to another server and set it up as a slave […]
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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 […]
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 […]
