Over the past few years, we’ve been building Percona Everest with a clear goal in mind: to deliver a powerful yet approachable DBaaS experience on Kubernetes. Thanks to strong user and customer adoption, Everest has grown into a platform with thousands of production clusters deployed and overwhelmingly positive feedback from the community.
As adoption grew, so did the vision. One theme we consistently heard from the community was a desire to see Everest support an even broader ecosystem of databases, well beyond those supported by Percona.
We listened carefully.
It became clear to us that the Percona Everest you desire is not the best fit with the Percona Business Model, and as such, a different solution is in order.
A New Chapter: OpenEverest
Percona Everest will become OpenEverest; it will retain the same open source (Apache 2.0) license and become a multi-vendor project built with open governance at its core. Our intention is to donate OpenEverest to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), ensuring long-term independence, transparency, and community-driven innovation.
To support this next phase, a new company called Solanica has been formed. Solanica is fully dedicated to the success of OpenEverest and operates with the singular focus and agility required to build a truly broad, vendor-neutral database platform. Sergey Pronin, who has led Percona Everest for several years, and I will both be deeply involved in this new venture.
Percona’s Ongoing Role
This change does not mean Percona is stepping away, quite the opposite. Percona remains committed to OpenEverest and will actively contribute integrations and expertise for the databases we know best: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Valkey. Percona will also work closely with Solanica to deliver an exceptional experience for users running these technologies on the OpenEverest platform.
What This Means for You
For users, this transition unlocks exciting benefits:
- Faster development driven by a highly focused team and an expanded community
- Support for a wider range of database technologies
- A stronger, more flexible platform with open governance and vendor neutrality
Existing Percona Everest customers will see no immediate changes. We remain fully committed to honoring current contracts and will work closely with you on a smooth, well-planned transition to OpenEverest builds over time.
Want to Get Involved?
There are many ways to participate in the OpenEverest journey:
- Join the community and contribute ideas, code, or feedback
- Try OpenEverest and help shape its roadmap through real-world usage
- Partner with Solanica or Percona to build integrations and solutions
- Follow the project to stay up to date on releases and milestones
We’re incredibly proud of what Percona Everest has become, and even more excited about what OpenEverest will become with the power of an open, global community behind it.
Welcome to the next chapter!
About the Author
Peter ZaitsevPeter managed the High Performance Group within MySQL until 2006, when he founded Percona. Peter has a Master's Degree in Computer Science and is an expert in database kernels, computer hardware, and application scaling.
