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 Marco Tusa | Jan 11, 2024 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
In my previous article, Comparisons of Proxies for MySQL, I showed how MySQL Router was the lesser performing Proxy in the comparison. From that time to now, we had several MySQL releases and, of course, also some new MySQL Router ones. Most importantly, we also had...
by David Quilty | Nov 9, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. You may already be using it daily and find it makes running applications in the cloud much more manageable. But for those who are not so familiar, in this...
by Marco Tusa | Jan 20, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
How can we fix a nasty out-of-space issue leveraging the flexibility of Percona Operator for MySQL? When planning a database deployment, one of the most challenging factors to consider is the amount of space we need to dedicate to data on disk. This is even more...
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 Sergey Pronin | Sep 16, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Operator for MongoDB version 1.13 was recently released and it comes with various ravishing features. In this blog post, we are going to look under the hood and see what are the practical use cases for these improvements. Cluster-wide deployment There are two...
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 Sergey Pronin | May 16, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Our goal is to have a Rocket.Chat deployment which uses highly available Percona Server for MongoDB cluster as the backend database and it all runs on Kubernetes. To get there, we will do the following: Start a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster across multiple...
by Sergey Pronin | May 12, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Percona Operator for MongoDB supports multi-cluster or cross-site replication deployments since version 1.10. This functionality is extremely useful if you want to have a disaster recovery deployment or perform a migration from or to a MongoDB cluster running in...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 18, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Ingress is a resource that is commonly used to expose HTTP(s) services outside of Kubernetes. To have ingress support, you will need an Ingress Controller, which in a nutshell is a proxy. SREs and DevOps love ingress as it provides developers with a self-service to...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 15, 2022 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Avoid vendor lock-in, provide a private Database-as-a-Service for internal teams, quickly deploy-test-destroy databases with CI/CD pipeline – these are some of the most common use cases for running databases on Kubernetes with operators. Percona Operator for...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 7, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Deploying MongoDB on Kubernetes has never been simpler with Percona Operator for MongoDB. It provides you with an enterprise-ready MongoDB cluster with no manual burden. In addition to that, you also get automated day-to-day operations – scaling, backups,...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 27, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Operators are a software framework that extends Kubernetes API and enables application deployment and management through the control plane. For such complex technologies as databases, Operators play a crucial role by automating deployment and day-to-day operations. At...
by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Jan 11, 2022 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
A customer recently asked if our Percona Operator for PostgreSQL supports the deployment of a standby cluster, which they need as part of their Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy. The answer is yes – as long as you are making use of an object storage system for...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Dec 21, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
If you have ever used backups with Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator, you should already know that backed-up data is stored outside the Kubernetes cluster – on Amazon S3 or any S3-compatible storage. Storage types not compatible with the S3 protocol were...
by Sergey Pronin | Oct 18, 2021 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
The cloud-native landscape matures every day, and new great tools and products continue to appear. We are starting a series of blog posts that are going to focus on new tools in the container and cloud-native world, and provide a holistic view through the prism of...
by Sergey Pronin | Oct 13, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is the last in the series of articles on migrating databases to Kubernetes with Percona Operators. Two previous posts can be found here: Migrating PostgreSQL to Kubernetes Migration of a MySQL Database to a Kubernetes Cluster Using Asynchronous...
by Sergey Pronin | Oct 8, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
As per the glossary, Disaster Recovery (DR) protocols are an organization’s method of regaining access and functionality to its IT infrastructure in events like a natural disaster, cyber attack, or even business disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. When we...
by Slava Sarzhan | Sep 17, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Nowadays, more and more companies are thinking about the migration of their infrastructure to Kubernetes. Databases are no exception. There were a lot of k8s operators that were created to simplify the different types of deployments and also perform routine day-to-day...
