by Sergey Pronin | Aug 19, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
You may have already seen this document which describes the integration between HashiCorp Vault and Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator to enable data-at-rest encryption for self-managed Vault deployments. In April 2021, HashiCorp announced a fully managed...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 28, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Recently I wanted to play with the latest and greatest Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator which had a bug fix I was interested in. The bug fix was merged in the main branch of the git repository, but no version of the Operator that includes this fix was...
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 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 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 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 Tomislav Plavcic | Jan 6, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
So far, Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) has supported only managing replica sets, but from version 1.6.0 it is possible to start a sharding cluster, although at the moment only with one shard. This is a step toward supporting full...
