by Sergey Pronin | Mar 15, 2023 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
We at Percona talk a lot about how Kubernetes Operators automate the deployment and management of databases. Operators seamlessly handle lots of Kubernetes primitives and database configuration bits and pieces, all to remove toil from operation teams and provide a...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 1, 2023 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Public cloud spending is slowing down. Quarter-over-quarter growth is no longer hitting 30% gains for AWS, Google, and Microsoft. This is businesses’ response to tough and uncertain macroeconomic conditions, where organizations scrutinize their public cloud...
by Sergey Pronin | Feb 10, 2023 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Previously, deploying and maintaining a database usually meant many burdensome chores and repetitive tasks to ensure proper functioning. In the cloud era, however, developers and operation engineers started fully embracing automation tools making their job...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 24, 2023 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Platform, Percona Software
Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. We see the growing adoption of our Percona Kubernetes Operators and the demand to migrate workloads to the cloud-native platform. Our Operators provide built-in backup and restore capabilities, but some users are...
by Sergey Pronin | Dec 15, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
Operators hide the complexity of the application and Kubernetes. Instead of dealing with Pods, StatefulSets, tons of YAML manifests, and various configuration files, the user talks to Kubernetes API to provision a ready-to-use application. An Operator automatically...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Nov 25, 2022 | Cloud, Hardware and Storage, MongoDB, Percona Software
One of the main features that I like about the Percona Operator for MongoDB is the integration with Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) tool and the ability to backup/restore the database without manual intervention. The Operator allows backing up the DB to S3-compatible...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 22, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona loves and embraces Kubernetes. Percona Operators have found their way into the hearts and minds of developers and operations teams. And with growing adoption, we get a lot of valuable feedback from the community and our support organization. Two of the most...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 10, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
This blog post continues the series of comparisons of solutions to run databases on Kubernetes. Previous blog posts: Run MongoDB in Kubernetes: Solutions, Pros and Cons Run PostgreSQL in Kubernetes: Solutions, Pros and Cons The initial release of MySQL was in 1995 and...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 31, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
To follow up on my previous Kubernetes articles: Installed in part one (see Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 1: Installation) and Have Percona Server for MySQL running (Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 2: Percona Server for MySQL...
by David Stokes | Oct 25, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This week is KubeCon in Detroit, and in preparation for attending I have been polishing up my Kubernetes skills. This big rush to put software in containers and have Kubernetes run everything is getting a lot of push in the industry. Many software applications run...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 14, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
As we have Kubernetes installed in part one (see Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 1: Installation) and have Percona Server for MySQL running (Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 2: Percona Server for MySQL Operator) lets review how we can...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 11, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
As we have Kubernetes installed in part one (see Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 1: Installation), now we will install Percona Server for MySQL Operator into the running cluster. I will copy some ideas from Peter’s Minukube tutorial (see Exploring...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 5, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
Recently Peter provided an extensive tutorial on how to use Percona Kubernetes Operators on minikube: Exploring MySQL on Kubernetes with Minikube. Minikube is a great option for local deployment and to get familiar with Kubernetes on a single developer’s box....
by Inel Pandzic | Oct 3, 2022 | Cloud, Percona Software, Security
Just to have a simple refresher, let’s start with a bit of Wikipedia: a vulnerability (in computing) is: Vulnerabilities are flaws in a computer system that weaken the overall security of the device/system. Vulnerabilities can be exploited by a threat actor,...
by Jaime Sicam | Sep 19, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
As of Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.12.0, the documentation now has instructions on how to configure LDAP Authentication and Authorization. It already contains an example of how to configure the operator if OpenLDAP is your LDAP server. Here is another example of...
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 | Sep 6, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) comes with Database as a Service (DBaaS) functionality that allows you to deploy highly-available databases through a simple user interface and API. PMM DBaaS is sort of unique for various reasons: It is fully open source and...
by Sergey Pronin | Aug 22, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
We at Percona are committed to delivering software that enables users to run databases anywhere. Our Operators for databases and Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Database as a Service (DBaaS) confirm our commitment to Kubernetes. Kubernetes is not only the most...
by Chetan Shivashankar | Aug 3, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
In part one and part two of this series, we introduced the different ways to manage MySQL configurations and precedence when using the Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) object and ConfigMap. In this post, we will see the precedence when secrets are used for MySQL...
by Chetan Shivashankar | Aug 1, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
In part one of this series, we introduced the different ways to manage MySQL configurations. In this post, we will walk through different possibilities and the changes happening while modifying MySQL configurations with the operator. Percona Distribution for MySQL...
