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 Ivan Groenewold | Oct 7, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
There are plenty of ways to run ProxySQL in Kubernetes (K8S). For example, we can deploy sidecar containers on the application pods, or run a dedicated ProxySQL service with its own pods. We are going to discuss the latter approach, which is more likely to be used...
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...
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 Ege Gunes | Jul 13, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
by Marco Tusa | Jun 23, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona is well known for its offer of several outstanding fully open source, free-to-download software packages. And while Percona started as a MySQL-focused company, nowadays it covers different technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. In its constant...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Jun 23, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
At some point, your needs for improving database performance may run into a threshold where optimization and tuning are no longer enough. If you cannot change the database engine and can no longer tune the parameters for your workload, you need to use scaling. As it...
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 Mike Benshoof | Jun 14, 2021 | MySQL, Percona Software
The practice of running databases in containers continues to grow in popularity. As a Technical Account Manager at Percona, I get asked regularly about our Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator. Additionally, I’m asked what I’m seeing in the industry in terms of...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 10, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In the previous release of our Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator, we implemented one interesting feature, which can be seen as “self-healing”: https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPXC-564. I do not think it got enough attention, so I want to write more about this....
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 Vadim Tkachenko | May 19, 2021 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Our recent releases of Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster 1.8 and Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.7 come with a new interesting feature: Support of custom sidecars. What is special about this? There is often a need to customize the default...
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 Sergey Pronin | Apr 1, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
It is no secret that compute and storage costs are the main drivers of cloud bills. Migration of data from the legacy data center to the cloud looks appealing at first as it significantly reduces capital expense (CapEx) and keeps operational expenses (OpEx) under...
