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Sergey ProninYou may have already seen this document which describes the integration between HashiCorp Vault and Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator to enable data-at-rest encryption for self-managed Vault deployments. In April 2021, HashiCorp announced a fully managed offering, HashiCorp Cloud Platform Vault (HCP Vault), that simplifies deployment and management of the Vault. With that in mind, […]
More and more companies are adopting Kubernetes. For some it is about being cutting-edge, for some, it is a well-defined strategy and a business transformation. Developers and operations teams all over the world are struggling with moving applications that aren’t cloud-native friendly to containers and Kubernetes. Migrating databases is always a challenge, which comes with […]
Recently I wanted to play with the latest and greatest Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator which had a bug fix I was interested in. The bug fix was merged in the main branch of the git repository, but no version of the Operator that includes this fix was released yet. I started the Operator by […]
GitOps workflow was introduced by WeaveWorks as a way to implement Continuous Deployment for cloud-native applications. This technique quickly found its way into devops and developer’s hearts as it greatly simplifies the application delivery pipeline: the change in the manifests in the git repository is reflected in Kubernetes right away. With GitOps there is no […]
Percona is championing open source database software and we are committed to running our products on Kubernetes. We don’t only want to run the software, but make sure that the database is highly available, secure, and follows best practices. We also focus on day-2 operations such as scaling, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and customization. […]
Quite a common request that we receive from the community and customers is to provide a way to manage database users with Operators – both MongoDB and MySQL. Even though we see it as an interesting task, our Operators are mainly a tool to simplify the deployment and management of our software on Kubernetes. Our […]
Running MongoDB in Kubernetes with Percona Operator is not only simple but also by design provides a highly available MongoDB cluster suitable for mission-critical applications. In the latest 1.8.0 version, we add a feature that implements Point-in-time recovery (PITR). It allows users to store Oplog on an external S3 bucket and to perform recovery to […]
Percona Kubernetes Operators support various options for storage: Persistent Volume (PV), hostPath, ephemeral storage, etc. In most of the cases, PVs are used, which are provisioned by the Operator through Storage Classes and Persistent Volume Claims. Storage Classes define the underlying volume type that should be used (ex. AWS, EBS, gp2, or io1), file system […]
Percona Kubernetes Operators allow users to simplify deployment and management of MongoDB and MySQL databases on Kubernetes. Both operators allow users to store backups on S3-compatible storage and leverage Percona XtraBackup and Percona Backup for MongoDB to deliver backup and restore functionality. Both backup tools do not work with Azure Blob Storage, which is not […]
It is no secret that compute and storage costs are the main drivers of cloud bills. Migration of data from the legacy data center to the cloud looks appealing at first as it significantly reduces capital expense (CapEx) and keeps operational expenses (OpEx) under control. But once you see the bill, the lift and shift […]
More and more companies are adopting GitOps as the way of implementing Continuous Deployment. Its elegant approach built upon a well-known tool wins the hearts of engineers. But even if your git repository is private, it’s strongly discouraged to store keys and passwords in unencrypted form. This blog post will show how easy it is […]
The latest 1.7.0 release of Percona Operator for MongoDB came out just recently and enables users to: Run multiple shards to scale MongoDB horizontally Deploy custom sidecar containers to extend operators and MongoDB capabilities in Kubernetes Automatically clean up Persistent Volume Claims (PVC) once a database cluster is removed Today we will look into these new […]
Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) for MySQL databases is an important feature that is essential and covers common use cases, like a recovery to the latest possible transaction or roll-back the database to a specific date before some bad query was executed. Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) added support for PITR in version […]
More and more companies are adopting Kubernetes, but after some time they see an unexpected growth around cloud costs. Engineering teams did their part in setting up auto-scalers, but the cloud bill is still growing. Today we are going to see how Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) can help with monitoring Kubernetes and reducing the […]
Running Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in the cloud is the norm for users today. It provides a ready-to-use database instance for users in a few seconds, which can be easily scaled and usually comes with a pay-as-you-go model. We at Percona see that more and more cloud vendors or enterprises either want to or are already running […]
What is Node Draining? Anyone who ever worked with containers knows how ephemeral they are. In Kubernetes, not only can containers and pods be replaced, but the nodes as well. Nodes in Kubernetes are VMs, servers, and other entities with computational power where pods and containers run. Node draining is the mechanism that allows users […]
What is Edge Edge is a buzzword that, behind the curtain, means moving private or public clouds closer to the end devices. End devices, such as the Internet of Things (from a doorbell to a VoIP station), become more complex and require more computational power. There is a constant growth of connected devices and by […]
Last year AWS was about to ban the “multi-cloud” term in co-branding guides for Partners, removed the ban after community and partners critique, and now embraces multi-cloud strategy. One of the products that AWS announced during its last re:Invent was Amazon EKS Distro — Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. […]
Kubernetes operators are meant to simplify the deployment and management of applications. Our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster serves the purpose, but also provides users the flexibility to fine-tune their MySQL and proxy services configuration. The document Changing MySQL Options describes how to provide custom my.cnf configuration to the operator. But what would […]
Our recent survey showed that many organizations saw unexpected growth around cloud and data. Unexpected bills can become a big problem, especially in such uncertain times. This blog post talks about how Kubernetes scaling capabilities work with Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC Operator) and can help you to control the bill. Resources […]