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February 10, 2023
Percona XtraBackup Now Supports IAM Instance Profile
Amazon instance profiles are used to pass IAM roles to an EC2 instance. This IAM role can be queried using [...]
January 24, 2023
Backup Databases on Kubernetes With VolumeSnapshots
Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. We see the growing adoption of our Percona Kubernetes Operators and the demand [...]
January 20, 2023
Help! I Am Out of Disk Space!
How can we fix a nasty out-of-space issue leveraging the flexibility of Percona Operator for MySQL? When planning a database [...]
December 28, 2022
Impact of DDL Operations on Aurora MySQL Readers
Recently I came across an interesting investigation about long-running transactions getting killed on an Aurora Reader instance. In this article, [...]
December 23, 2022
A MyRocks Use Case
I wrote this post on MyRocks because I believe it is the most interesting new MySQL storage engine to have [...]
December 15, 2022
Least Privilege for Kubernetes Resources and Percona Operators
Operators hide the complexity of the application and Kubernetes. Instead of dealing with Pods, StatefulSets, tons of YAML manifests, and [...]
November 30, 2022
Upload Ongoing MyDumper Backups to S3
If you are using MyDumper as your Logical Backup solution and you store your backups on S3, you need to [...]
November 28, 2022
Cloud of Serfdom or Cloud of Freedom – What Would You Choose?
At its core, the cloud is a fantastic innovation — I do not think many of us will long for [...]
November 25, 2022
Percona Operator for MongoDB Backup and Restore on S3-Compatible Storage – Backblaze
One of the main features that I like about the Percona Operator for MongoDB is the integration with Percona Backup for [...]
November 25, 2022
Exploring Data Dump and Load Utility With MySQL Shell
In this blog post, I will try to cover a few dump and data-loading utilities offered by MySQL Shell. What [...]
November 22, 2022
Troubleshooting Percona Operators With troubleshoot.sh
Percona loves and embraces Kubernetes. Percona Operators have found their way into the hearts and minds of developers and operations [...]
November 10, 2022
Run MySQL in Kubernetes: Solutions, Pros and Cons
This blog post continues the series of comparisons of solutions to run databases on Kubernetes. Previous blog posts: Run MongoDB [...]
October 31, 2022
Coroot – The Next Level in Kubernetes Observability
To follow up on my previous Kubernetes articles: Installed in part one (see Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part [...]
October 25, 2022
Kubernetes: Getting Started With a Minimal MySQL Installation
This week is KubeCon in Detroit, and in preparation for attending I have been polishing up my Kubernetes skills. This [...]
October 14, 2022
Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 3: Monitoring and PMM
As we have Kubernetes installed in part one (see Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 1: Installation) and have [...]
October 11, 2022
Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 2: Percona Server for MySQL Operator
As we have Kubernetes installed in part one (see Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 1: Installation), now we [...]
October 5, 2022
Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 1: Installation
Recently Peter provided an extensive tutorial on how to use Percona Kubernetes Operators on minikube: Exploring MySQL on Kubernetes with [...]
October 3, 2022
Making Percona Kubernetes Operators More Secure With Trivy
Just to have a simple refresher, let’s start with a bit of Wikipedia: a vulnerability (in computing) is: Vulnerabilities are [...]
September 26, 2022
MySQL in Microservices Environments
The microservice architecture is not a new pattern but has become very popular lately for mainly two reasons: cloud computing [...]
September 20, 2022
Percona Server for MySQL – Automatic Cloud Deployment with Terraform
We are looking to provide simplified ways to deploy Percona software in cloud environments, especially for more advanced scenarios like [...]