by Chetan Shivashankar | Jul 25, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Introduction/FAQ Question: I need to run a production-grade open source MySQL DB. Answer: Percona to the rescue! Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is an open source enterprise MySQL solution that helps you to ensure data availability for your applications while improving...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 14, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post, I will show how to install the MySQL-compatible Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) Operator on Minikube as well as perform some basic actions. I am by no means a Kubernetes expert and this blog post is the result of my explorations preparing for a local...
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 Natalia Marukovich | Jul 6, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
There are several ways to manage storage in Percona Kubernetes Operators: Persistent Volume (PV), hostPath, ephemeral storage, etc. Using PVs, which are provisioned by the Operator through Storage Classes and Persistent Volume Claims, is the most popular choice for...
by Ivan Pylypenko | Jun 29, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
As a member of the Percona cloud team, I run a lot of databases in Kubernetes and our Percona Operator for MongoDB in particular. Most of us feel comfortable with rather small and tidy infrastructure, which is easy to control and operate. However, the natural growth...
by Sergey Pronin | Jun 22, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Over the course of the years, we see the growing interest in running databases and stateful workloads in Kubernetes. With Container Storage Interfaces (CSI) maturing and more and more Operators appearing, running stateful workloads in your favorite platform is not...
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 Dmitriy Kostiuk | Apr 13, 2022 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Tablespaces allow DBAs to store a database on multiple file systems within the same server and to control where (on which file systems) specific parts of the database are stored. You can think about it as if you were giving names to your disk mounts and then using...
by Marco Tusa | Apr 12, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Last month I performed a review of the Percona Operator for MySQL Server which is still Alpha. That operator is based on Percona Server for MySQL and uses standard asynchronous replication, with the option to activate semi-synchronous replication to gain higher...
by Steve Hoffman | Mar 4, 2022 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
My father always used the expression, “sometimes the juice ain’t worth the squeeze”. What he meant by it was, “what you put into something better be worth what you get out of it”. Why do I bring this up? Well…we’ve got this GREAT feature for Percona Monitoring...
by Ege Gunes | Jan 27, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Managing database users and their passwords can be a hassle. Sometimes, they could even wait in various configuration files, hardcoded. Using certificates can help you avoid the toil of managing, rotating, and securing user passwords, so let’s see how to have...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 24, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Automating the deployment and management of MongoDB on Kubernetes is an easy journey with Percona Operator for MongoDB. By default, MongoDB is deployed using persistent volume claims (PVC). In the cases where you seek exceptional performance or you don’t have any...
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 Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Jan 7, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Storage Engine
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 Tomislav Plavcic | Dec 21, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
As we all know, security is very important these days and we read about many data leaks. Security has many aspects, but one of the most important is securing data since it is a vital asset to companies. When we speak about data, it can be encrypted at rest...
by Peter Boros | Dec 9, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
We have a quickstart guide for how to install Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator on minikube. Installing the minimal version works well as it is described in the guide. After that, we will have one HAproxy and one Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) node to work with....
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 23, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, Percona Software
There are cases where multiple teams, customers, or applications run in the same Kubernetes cluster. Such an environment is called multi-tenant and requires some preparation and management. Multi-tenant Kubernetes deployment allows you to utilize the economy of scale...
