by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 14, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
As we have Kubernetes installed in part one (see Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 1: Installation) and have Percona Server for MySQL running (Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 2: Percona Server for MySQL Operator) lets review how we can...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 11, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
As we have Kubernetes installed in part one (see Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 1: Installation), now we will install Percona Server for MySQL Operator into the running cluster. I will copy some ideas from Peter’s Minukube tutorial (see Exploring...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 5, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
Recently Peter provided an extensive tutorial on how to use Percona Kubernetes Operators on minikube: Exploring MySQL on Kubernetes with Minikube. Minikube is a great option for local deployment and to get familiar with Kubernetes on a single developer’s box....
by Inel Pandzic | Oct 3, 2022 | Cloud, Percona Software, Security
Just to have a simple refresher, let’s start with a bit of Wikipedia: a vulnerability (in computing) is: Vulnerabilities are flaws in a computer system that weaken the overall security of the device/system. Vulnerabilities can be exploited by a threat actor,...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Sep 26, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
The microservice architecture is not a new pattern but has become very popular lately for mainly two reasons: cloud computing and containers. That combo helped increase adoption by tackling the two main concerns on every infrastructure: Cost reduction and...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Sep 20, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
We are looking to provide simplified ways to deploy Percona software in cloud environments, especially for more advanced scenarios like replication and multi-node cluster (in the case of Percona XtraDB Cluster). For this I propose trying out our new Terraform...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 25, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
With the economy slowing down and inflation raging in many parts of the world, your organization will love you if you find ways to reduce the costs of running their MySQL databases. This is especially true if you run MySQL in the cloud, as it often allows you to see...
by Sergey Pronin | Aug 22, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
We at Percona are committed to delivering software that enables users to run databases anywhere. Our Operators for databases and Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Database as a Service (DBaaS) confirm our commitment to Kubernetes. Kubernetes is not only the most...
by Chetan Shivashankar | Aug 3, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
In part one and part two of this series, we introduced the different ways to manage MySQL configurations and precedence when using the Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) object and ConfigMap. In this post, we will see the precedence when secrets are used for MySQL...
by Chetan Shivashankar | Aug 1, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
In part one of this series, we introduced the different ways to manage MySQL configurations. In this post, we will walk through different possibilities and the changes happening while modifying MySQL configurations with the operator. Percona Distribution for MySQL...
by Chetan Shivashankar | Jul 25, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Introduction/FAQ Question: I need to run a production-grade open source MySQL DB. Answer: Percona to the rescue! Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is an open source enterprise MySQL solution that helps you to ensure data availability for your applications while improving...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 14, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post, I will show how to install the MySQL-compatible Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) Operator on Minikube as well as perform some basic actions. I am by no means a Kubernetes expert and this blog post is the result of my explorations preparing for a local...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 11, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
There are two Operators at Percona to deploy MySQL on Kubernetes: one is based on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), production-ready and widely adopted another is based on Percona Server for MySQL, now in tech preview and not recommended for production yet We wrote a blog...
by Natalia Marukovich | Jul 6, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
There are several ways to manage storage in Percona Kubernetes Operators: Persistent Volume (PV), hostPath, ephemeral storage, etc. Using PVs, which are provisioned by the Operator through Storage Classes and Persistent Volume Claims, is the most popular choice for...
by Ivan Pylypenko | Jun 29, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
As a member of the Percona cloud team, I run a lot of databases in Kubernetes and our Percona Operator for MongoDB in particular. Most of us feel comfortable with rather small and tidy infrastructure, which is easy to control and operate. However, the natural growth...
by Sergey Pronin | Jun 22, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Over the course of the years, we see the growing interest in running databases and stateful workloads in Kubernetes. With Container Storage Interfaces (CSI) maturing and more and more Operators appearing, running stateful workloads in your favorite platform is not...
by Marco Tusa | Apr 22, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In the last quarter of 2021, AWS released Aurora version 3. This new version aligns Aurora with the latest MySQL 8 version, porting many of the advantages MySQL 8 has over previous versions. While this brings a lot of new interesting features for Aurora, what we are...
by Michael Patrick | Apr 21, 2022 | Cloud, Database Trends
Before you transition your database environment to the cloud, there are a few considerations you should consider first. Some of the touted benefits of the cloud also carry with them some risks or negative impacts. Let’s take a look at just a few of these....
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Apr 13, 2022 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Tablespaces allow DBAs to store a database on multiple file systems within the same server and to control where (on which file systems) specific parts of the database are stored. You can think about it as if you were giving names to your disk mounts and then using...
by Nik Krichko | Feb 16, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
It is always hard to select a CPU for your own purpose. You could waste hours reviewing different benchmarks, reviews, and bloggers, and in the end, we would limit all our requirements to performance and price. For performance measuring we already have some specific...