Today, we are sharing an important step forward for the project many of you know as Percona Everest.

Percona is transitioning Percona Everest into an independent open source project called OpenEverest (https://openeverest.io/). This change is about one thing: making the project stronger over the long term by building it in the open, with open governance, and with a community that includes contributors and organizations well beyond Percona.

What is changing

OpenEverest is designed to operate as an independent project with open governance and a growing, multi-vendor community. We are making this transition because we believe the project will be healthier, more trusted, and more innovative when it is shaped by a broad set of maintainers, users, and ecosystem partners.

As part of this transition:

• Percona will remain an active contributor to the OpenEverest project and its long-term success.
• Percona will continue to provide enterprise-class support, consulting, and services for OpenEverest users.
• To support the project’s growth, Percona is creating a wholly owned subsidiary, Solanica (https://solanica.io/), focused specifically on developing OpenEverest and nurturing its community.

Why we are doing this

Open source works best when it is bigger than any one company.

OpenEverest is being established to encourage broad community participation from individuals, partners, and organizations beyond Percona. The project is intended to welcome independent contributors, maintainers, and ecosystem partners from across the industry.

This transition also reflects Percona’s long-standing commitment to open source software and open collaboration. We want OpenEverest’s roadmap and evolution to be guided by community needs, not by a single vendor’s commercial priorities.

A platform that is meant to be extended

From the start, OpenEverest has been built as an extensible platform.

• It is built to make it easier to add support for additional databases over time.
• The architecture is designed to enable integrations beyond databases, supporting a wider range of data infrastructure and operational use cases.
• OpenEverest aims to provide a common, open foundation for managing, operating, and extending modern data platforms.

In short, the long-term vision is for OpenEverest to become a flexible, community-driven platform rather than a single-purpose product.

Working more closely with the cloud-native ecosystem

Establishing OpenEverest as an independent project enables deeper engagement with the CNCF and the broader cloud-native ecosystem to drive adoption, collaboration, and long-term success.

We see OpenEverest as a natural fit for cloud-native operations, and we want to collaborate openly with the communities and organizations that help cloud-native projects thrive.

What this means for users and customers

If you are using Percona Everest today, you should expect continuity.

• Existing Percona Everest users will continue to receive continuity, stability, and support through Percona.
• There is no change to Percona’s commitment to enterprise-grade reliability, security, and support offerings around OpenEverest.
• Users gain the benefits of a more open ecosystem, broader innovation, and faster evolution driven by a larger community.

How to get involved

OpenEverest will only succeed if it is genuinely community-supported. We are inviting you to help shape what comes next.

Here are a few ways to participate:

• Try OpenEverest and share feedback on what works and what is missing.
• Join discussions about roadmap priorities and governance.
• Contribute code, documentation, integrations, and examples.
• Help us expand support for additional databases and new operational use cases.

If you are an organization interested in contributing engineering time, becoming a maintainer, or building integrations, we would love to collaborate.

Thank you

To everyone who has tried Percona Everest, filed issues, shared ideas, contributed code, or helped others in the community: thank you. OpenEverest is the next chapter, and we are excited to build it with you.

We will share more details soon on project governance, contribution pathways, and how to participate as the community grows.