Introducing the GA Release of the New Percona Operator for MySQL: More Replication Options on Kubernetes

The Percona Cloud Native team is happy to announce the general availability of the Percona Operator for MySQL, based on Percona Server for MySQL. This release introduces an additional Kubernetes-native approach to deploying and managing MySQL clusters with synchronous Group Replication, delivering the consistency required for organizations with business continuity needs.

With this release, Percona continues to help businesses modernize their database infrastructure on Kubernetes for organizations running transactional systems, customer-facing platforms, and multi-regional services, where consistent data, high availability, and operational continuity are non-negotiable. 

Asynchronous replication is currently in technical preview and available for the community to test in real-world environments and provide feedback, helping guide its development. Percona will continue to focus on further improvements to enable geo-distributed clusters and hybrid cloud deployments, supporting global application performance, business continuity, and flexible distributed architectures.

More use cases for cloud native community

Percona now provides two open source MySQL Operators, and our goal is to align with real-world workloads, where each replication model serves different business priorities:

• Percona Operator for MySQL (based on Percona Server for MySQL) – supporting MySQL native replication, including Group Replication and asynchronous modes.
• Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) Operator – using Galera-based synchronous replication, known for its strict high availability and automatic failover capabilities.

Both operators will continue to be actively developed and supported. The new Operator is not a replacement, but an expansion, enabling Percona to meet a wider range of deployment scenarios, from high-throughput workloads to mission-critical applications that demand zero data loss.

Roadmap

Next steps for the Percona Operator for MySQL (based on Percona Server for MySQL) include enhanced backup and restore capabilities, incremental backups, encrypted backups, and PVC snapshots. These improvements are designed to simplify disaster recovery workflows, automate scheduled backups, and replicate backup copies across regions.

Getting started with the new Operator

• Documentation: Percona Operator for MySQL Docs
• Source code: GitHub repository for contributions, issue reporting, and feedback.

Community members are encouraged to try the new Operator, test it in their environments, and contribute to development. Both Operators remain open source, and community collaboration will guide future improvements.