by Ivan Groenewold | Jul 10, 2024 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Everest is the first open source platform designed for automated database provisioning and management. It supports multiple database technologies and can be hosted on any Kubernetes infrastructure, in the cloud or on-premises. It provides an easy-to-use web...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 8, 2024 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL major versions are released every year, with each release delivering better performance and new features. With such rapid innovation, it is inevitable that there will be a need to upgrade from one version to another. Upgrade procedures are usually very...
by Jaime Sicam | Jun 27, 2024 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
As per K8SPSMDB-732, TLS is now supported with LDAP authentication on Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.16.0 and above. This feature has been documented here as well. I’ve written a previous article on using LDAP authentication and authorization without TLS, so let me...
by Daniil Bazhenov | Jun 18, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
Percona Everest is the first open source, cloud-native platform for automated database provisioning and management. It supports PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MySQL clusters. It enables multi-database and multi-cluster configurations and can be deployed on any Kubernetes...
by Sveta Smirnova | Jun 12, 2024 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona Toolkit 3.6.0 has been released on June 12, 2024. The most important updates in this version are: The possibility to resume pt-online-schema-change if it is interrupted. eu-stack support in pt-pmp that significantly improves this tool’s performance and...
by Edith Puclla | May 30, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona is thrilled to announce the release of ARM support in Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.16.0. This new feature addresses one of our community’s top requests and opens up exciting new possibilities for our users. What is ARM, and why is it important? ARM is...
by Sergey Pronin | May 29, 2024 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
This is the second part of the series of blog posts unmasking the complexity of MongoDB cluster exposure in Kubernetes with Percona Operator for MongoDB. In the first part, we focused heavily on split horizons and a single replica set. In this part, we will expose a...
by Sergey Pronin | May 28, 2024 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
by Sergey Pronin | May 8, 2024 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Coroot, an open source observability tool powered by eBPF, went generally available with version 1.0 last week. As this tool is cloud-native, we were curious to know how it can help troubleshoot databases on Kubernetes. In this blog post, we will see how to quickly...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 26, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Cloud-native databases are becoming the norm, and containerized databases are a common trend (see the report from Dynatrace and Figure 1). Kubernetes—the de facto standard for platform engineers—and operators simplify database deployment and management. But what are...
by Kate Obiidykhata | Apr 18, 2024 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs
Why do cloud-native databases matter? Kubernetes makes it easier to run applications. It’s like having a magic wand for managing everything from small tasks to significant operations. However, despite the popularity of Kubernetes, there are many cases when it...
by Edith Puclla | Apr 17, 2024 | Insight for Developers, PostgreSQL
This article explains how to install the Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using “context”. We will show you how to set up this distribution on Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Google Cloud, and locally with k3d. You’ll also learn how to switch...
by Juan Arruti | Apr 10, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL
It’s a common scenario to have a Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) server running on Kubernetes and also desire to monitor databases that are running outside the Kubernetes cluster. The Ingress NGINX Controller is one of the most popular choices for...
by Divyanshu Soni | Apr 5, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 11, 2024 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Volume Expansion, a feature that became generally available since Kubernetes version 1.24, allows users to increase the capacity of their Persistent Volumes and underlying storage within Kubernetes. There is no need to use clouds’ UI or APIs to do that anymore. In...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 7, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs
I really like AWS and the way they build their products, I really do. But for some reason, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) provides one of the worst user experiences. There are a couple of huge pain points that I want to cover in this quick blog post. Cluster...
by Peter Szczepaniak | Feb 29, 2024 | Cloud, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
Join our Beta program to have a say in the development of Percona Everest and help us drive its progress! We are excited to unveil the Beta release of Percona Everest, an innovative open source cloud-native database platform built upon the robust Percona Operators....
by Edith Puclla | Feb 22, 2024 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
In our last post, we looked into the lifecycle of applications in Kubernetes. We see that Kubernetes doesn’t handle database backups itself. This is where Kubernetes Operators come into action. They add additional functions to Kubernetes, enabling it to set up,...
by Edith Puclla | Feb 20, 2024 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
This post was originally published on the Percona Community blog. If you are in the world of application development, you know that every application has a lifecycle. An application lifecycle refers to the stages that our application goes through, from initial...
by David Quilty | Feb 15, 2024 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs
A cloud-native database isn’t just a database that happens to be sitting in the cloud; it’s built from the ground up to harness the full potential of cloud computing. Unlike traditional databases only adapted to operate in the cloud, cloud-native databases...
