by Edith Puclla | Jan 16, 2026 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
by Kate Obiidykhata | Jan 15, 2026 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
In 2025, the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL put most of its energy into the things that matter when PostgreSQL is running inside real Kubernetes clusters: predictable upgrades, safer backup and restore, clearer observability, and fewer surprises from image and HA...
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 Slava Sarzhan | Dec 30, 2025 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Open Source Isn’t What It Used to Be The landscape of open source has undergone significant changes in recent years, and selecting the right operator and tooling for PostgreSQL clusters in Kubernetes has never been more crucial. MinIO, for example, was a widely used...
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 Kate Obiidykhata | Nov 18, 2025 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
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...
by Ivan Groenewold | Sep 15, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Ever needed a robust, highly available MongoDB setup that spans multiple Kubernetes clusters on GCP? This step-by-step guide shows you how to deploy the Percona Operator for MongoDB in two GKE clusters, linking them using Multi-Cluster Services (MCS) for seamless...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 29, 2025 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This post was originally published in 2023, and we’ve updated it in 2025 for clarity and relevance. Downtime is more than an inconvenience. For many organizations, even a short outage can mean lost revenue, broken customer trust, or compliance issues. PostgreSQL is a...
by Ivan Groenewold | Jul 28, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
This post explains how to perform a Rolling Index Build on a Kubernetes environment running Percona Operator for MongoDB. Why and when to perform a Rolling Index Build? Building an index requires: CPU and I/O resources Database locks (even if brief) Network bandwidth...
by Ivan Groenewold | Jul 21, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 13, 2025 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This post was originally published in 2022, and we’ve updated it in 2025 for clarity and relevance. PostgreSQL was initially released in 1996, when cloud-native was not even a term. According to DB engines, it is currently the fourth most popular relational open...
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 Sergey Pronin | Jun 29, 2025 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This post was originally published in 2023 and was updated in 2025. PostgreSQL is a natural fit for modern cloud-native environments, but running it on Kubernetes can be more complicated than it looks. From provisioning to backups, there’s a lot to get right before...
