by Marco Tusa | Jun 23, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona is well known for its offer of several outstanding fully open source, free-to-download software packages. And while Percona started as a MySQL-focused company, nowadays it covers different technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. In its constant...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Jun 23, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
At some point, your needs for improving database performance may run into a threshold where optimization and tuning are no longer enough. If you cannot change the database engine and can no longer tune the parameters for your workload, you need to use scaling. As it...
by Sergey Pronin | Jun 23, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
GitOps workflow was introduced by WeaveWorks as a way to implement Continuous Deployment for cloud-native applications. This technique quickly found its way into devops and developer’s hearts as it greatly simplifies the application delivery pipeline: the change...
by IP | Jun 10, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Security
MongoDB supports multiple authentication mechanisms, including the default one SCRAM, LDAP, Kerberos, and x.509 Certificate Authentication. In the X.509 system, which will be the main point of this blog post, an organization can identify its entities using a pair of...
by Agustín | May 26, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, Percona Software
In this follow-up blog to Compiling a Percona Monitoring and Management v2 Client in ARM Architecture, we will show what changes are needed to get the latest versions of PMM working on ARM architecture. In this case, we will do it using a Raspberry Pi 3, instead of...
by Sergey Pronin | May 26, 2021 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona is championing open source database software and we are committed to running our products on Kubernetes. We don’t only want to run the software, but make sure that the database is highly available, secure, and follows best practices. We also focus on day-2...
by Sergey Pronin | May 20, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Quite a common request that we receive from the community and customers is to provide a way to manage database users with Operators – both MongoDB and MySQL. Even though we see it as an interesting task, our Operators are mainly a tool to simplify the deployment...
by Denys Kondratenko | May 19, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a managed database that doesn’t need to be installed and maintained but is instead provided as a service to the user. The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) DBaaS component allows users to CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete)...
by Sergey Pronin | May 10, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Running MongoDB in Kubernetes with Percona Operator is not only simple but also by design provides a highly available MongoDB cluster suitable for mission-critical applications. In the latest 1.8.0 version, we add a feature that implements Point-in-time recovery...
by David Quilty | May 7, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Webinars
Considering a move to the cloud, but unsure which provider is right for you? According to the results of our 2020 Open Source Data Management Software Survey, AWS continues to dominate the public cloud provider market, with 50% of respondents using its cloud platform...
by Sergey Kuzmichev | Apr 29, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Nothing lasts forever, including hardware running your EC2 instances. You will usually receive an advance warning on hardware degradation and subsequent instance retirement, but sometimes hardware fails unexpectedly. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) currently...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 20, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Kubernetes Operators support various options for storage: Persistent Volume (PV), hostPath, ephemeral storage, etc. In most of the cases, PVs are used, which are provisioned by the Operator through Storage Classes and Persistent Volume Claims. Storage Classes...
by Vadim Yalovets | Apr 16, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
The Microsoft Azure SQL Database is among the most popular databases of 2020, according to DB-Engine’s DBMS of the Year award. Also, it’s steadily climbing up in DB-Engines Ranking. The ranking is updated monthly and places database management systems...
by Diana Muina | Apr 16, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
This week we release Percona Monitoring and Management 2.16 (PMM), which brings some exciting new additions we’d like to highlight! Amazon RDS PostgreSQL Monitoring AWS monitoring in PMM now covers PostgreSQL RDS and PostgreSQL Aurora types. PMM will include them in a...
by Michael Patrick | Apr 9, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Recently, I needed to set up a Proof of Concept (POC) and wanted to do it on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). After documenting the process, it seemed it might be helpful for others looking for the most basic guide possible to get a Mongo server up and running on GCP. ...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 7, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Kubernetes Operators allow users to simplify deployment and management of MongoDB and MySQL databases on Kubernetes. Both operators allow users to store backups on S3-compatible storage and leverage Percona XtraBackup and Percona Backup for MongoDB to deliver...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 1, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
It is no secret that compute and storage costs are the main drivers of cloud bills. Migration of data from the legacy data center to the cloud looks appealing at first as it significantly reduces capital expense (CapEx) and keeps operational expenses (OpEx) under...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 22, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
More and more companies are adopting GitOps as the way of implementing Continuous Deployment. Its elegant approach built upon a well-known tool wins the hearts of engineers. But even if your git repository is private, it’s strongly discouraged to store keys and...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 10, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
by David Quilty | Feb 26, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Webinars
Join Rick Vasquez, Percona Technical Expert, as he discusses the pros and cons of moving your database to the cloud. Flexibility, performance, and cost management are three things that make cloud database environments an easy choice for many businesses. If you are...
