by Sergey Pronin | Feb 12, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
More and more companies are adopting Kubernetes, but after some time they see an unexpected growth around cloud costs. Engineering teams did their part in setting up auto-scalers, but the cloud bill is still growing. Today we are going to see how Percona Monitoring...
by Sergey Pronin | Feb 8, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
Running Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in the cloud is the norm for users today. It provides a ready-to-use database instance for users in a few seconds, which can be easily scaled and usually comes with a pay-as-you-go model. We at Percona see that more and more cloud...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 20, 2021 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software, Security
What is Node Draining? Anyone who ever worked with containers knows how ephemeral they are. In Kubernetes, not only can containers and pods be replaced, but the nodes as well. Nodes in Kubernetes are VMs, servers, and other entities with computational power where pods...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 13, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
What is Edge Edge is a buzzword that, behind the curtain, means moving private or public clouds closer to the end devices. End devices, such as the Internet of Things (from a doorbell to a VoIP station), become more complex and require more computational power. There...
by Sergey Pronin | Dec 7, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Last year AWS was about to ban the “multi-cloud” term in co-branding guides for Partners, removed the ban after community and partners critique, and now embraces multi-cloud strategy. One of the products that AWS announced during its last re:Invent was Amazon EKS...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 23, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Kubernetes operators are meant to simplify the deployment and management of applications. Our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster serves the purpose, but also provides users the flexibility to fine-tune their MySQL and proxy services configuration....
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 13, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Our recent survey showed that many organizations saw unexpected growth around cloud and data. Unexpected bills can become a big problem, especially in such uncertain times. This blog post talks about how Kubernetes scaling capabilities work with Percona Kubernetes...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 4, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
Kata containers are containers that use hardware virtualization technologies for workload isolation almost without performance penalties. Top use cases are untrusted workloads and tenant isolation (for example in a shared Kubernetes cluster). This blog post describes...
by Michael Patrick | Apr 2, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services
As a Technical Account Manager, or TAM for short, I am fortunate to work with some large clients. Most all of them are in some state of increasing their usage of containerization. There are a number of reasons for this, but let’s explore a few of the biggest...
by Ceri Williams | Oct 22, 2019 | Monitoring, Percona Software
In this article, we will take a look at how to run Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server in a container without root privileges. Some of the concerns companies have about using Docker relate to the security risks that exist due to the requirement for root...
by Matthew Boehm | Aug 27, 2019 | Cloud, Open Source
Here at Percona’s Training and Education department, we are always at work with trying to keep our materials up-to-date and relevant to current technologies. In addition, we keep an eye out for what topics are “hot” and are generating a lot of...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | May 21, 2019 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
In this blog post, I’ll walk through using Docker containers and discuss the advantages of using them to run multiple versions of Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) instances in the same server. This is particularly useful for local testing. Lots of companies...
by Jon Tobin | Nov 16, 2016 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL
This blog post reviews the appropriateness of Docker and other container solutions for your database environment. A few weeks back, I wrote a fairly high-level blog post about containers. It covered what you should consider when thinking about using Docker, rkt, LXC,...
by Jon Tobin | Oct 19, 2016 | Cloud, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
Containers like Docker and Rocket are getting more popular every day. In my conversations with customers, they consistently ask what containers are and how they can use them in their environment. If you’re as curious as most people, read on. . . How did this...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 13, 2016 | Cloud, MongoDB
This post will discuss how to get RocksDB from Docker containers to use with Percona Server for MongoDB. With our Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2 release, we made RocksDB a first class citizen. With this newly-available engine, we want to make it easy for everybody...
