by Edith Puclla | Jan 16, 2026 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
by Blair Rampling | Jan 7, 2026 | Cloud, Open Source
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...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 6, 2026 | Cloud, Open Source
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...
by David Quilty | Jan 2, 2026 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
As a database administrator, you are the guardian of the company’s most critical asset: its data. You live by performance, reliability, and security, ensuring every change maintains uptime and data integrity. That level of precision takes time, as every update,...
by David Quilty | Dec 31, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
When you went all-in on the cloud, you were promised agility and savings. But sometimes, the reality feels very different. Instead of simplicity and flexibility, you’re facing higher bills, shrinking options, and a single vendor with all the leverage. You’ve...
by Kate Obiidykhata | Dec 29, 2025 | Cloud, MongoDB
In 2025, the Percona Operator for MongoDB focused on the hardest parts of running MongoDB in Kubernetes: reliable backups and restores, clearer behavior during elections and restores, better observability at scale, and safer defaults as MongoDB 8.0 became mainstream....
by David Quilty | Dec 24, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
Choosing the right Kubernetes operator is one of those quiet decisions that ultimately defines your database strategy, affecting everything from how easily you automate backups and scaling to how much control you maintain over long-term costs and architecture. But...
by David Quilty | Dec 23, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
Most organizations now run across multiple clouds, pursuing flexibility, better pricing, or regional availability. But while stateless applications move freely, databases often remain stuck. Each cloud provider offers its own managed database service (e.g., RDS, Cloud...
by David Quilty | Dec 19, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
Your company has invested heavily in agile development, microservices, and Kubernetes to move faster. Your app teams can spin up a new service in minutes. So why can it still take a week to get a database for it? The bottleneck has shifted. It’s no longer compute;...
by David Quilty | Dec 16, 2025 | Benchmarks, Cloud, Open Source
Enterprises have spent years modernizing applications for the cloud, yet databases often remain a holdout. Many teams turn to managed database services for convenience, only to find that hidden markups, unpredictable scaling fees, and vendor lock-in erode the...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 1, 2025 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This post was originally published in 2021 and was updated in 2025. Kubernetes adoption keeps climbing, and databases are often one of the last workloads teams try to move. The reasons are clear: PostgreSQL is critical, downtime isn’t an option, and migration can feel...
by Cindy Neely | Jun 13, 2025 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
As a member of the Kubernetes Certified Services Provider program, Percona is now part of a select, “pre-qualified tier of vetted service providers who have deep experience helping enterprises successfully adopt Kubernetes…” Kubernetes (frequently abbreviated as K8s)...
by David Quilty | May 16, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Let’s be honest: Getting MongoDB up and running quickly in the cloud sounds fantastic. Services like MongoDB Atlas promise easy deployment, automated scaling, and hands-off management on AWS, Azure, and GCP. For teams looking to shed operational burdens, the...
by David Quilty | May 2, 2025 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
If you’ve tried running MongoDB on Kubernetes, you’ve likely run into some unique challenges. Stateful workloads like replica sets and sharded clusters can be messy in containers, and things that should be easy, like backups, scaling, failovers, and...
by Juan Arruti | Apr 21, 2025 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
When using the Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), it’s common to encounter scenarios where cluster nodes request a full State Snapshot Transfer (SST) when rejoining the cluster. One typical scenario where a State Snapshot Transfer...
by David Quilty | Apr 18, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
Remember when running databases in Kubernetes felt like a gamble? When unpredictable storage performance and complex state management made stability a constant battle? Thankfully, those days are largely behind us. With better tools, smarter operators, and field-tested...
by David Quilty | Apr 1, 2025 | Benchmarks, Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
You know that moment when your team finally decides to move your PostgreSQL databases to Kubernetes? Everyone’s excited about the scalability and flexibility, but then someone asks the question that keeps you up at night: “Which storage are we going to...
by Chetan Shivashankar | Apr 1, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers
Kubernetes is becoming a popular choice for running containerized applications. While the core idea is to have a single container running the application in a Pod, there are many cases where one or more containers need to run alongside the application container, such...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 1, 2025 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
This blog was originally published in August 2022 and was updated in April 2025. In this blog, we’ll examine the increasingly popular practice of running MongoDB on Kubernetes. We will explore various solutions and approaches to this setup, from direct deployments as...
by Ivan Groenewold | Feb 1, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
