by Sergey Pronin | Mar 22, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
More and more companies are adopting GitOps as the way of implementing Continuous Deployment. Its elegant approach built upon a well-known tool wins the hearts of engineers. But even if your git repository is private, it’s strongly discouraged to store keys and...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 10, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
by Sergey Pronin | Feb 24, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) for MySQL databases is an important feature that is essential and covers common use cases, like a recovery to the latest possible transaction or roll-back the database to a specific date before some bad query was executed. Percona...
by Sergey Pronin | Feb 12, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
More and more companies are adopting Kubernetes, but after some time they see an unexpected growth around cloud costs. Engineering teams did their part in setting up auto-scalers, but the cloud bill is still growing. Today we are going to see how Percona Monitoring...
by Sergey Pronin | Feb 8, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
Running Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in the cloud is the norm for users today. It provides a ready-to-use database instance for users in a few seconds, which can be easily scaled and usually comes with a pay-as-you-go model. We at Percona see that more and more cloud...
by David Quilty | Jan 29, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Software, Webinars
Don’t miss out! Join Peter Zaitsev, Percona CEO, as he discusses DBaaS and Kubernetes. DBaaS is the fastest-growing way to deploy databases. It is fast and convenient yet it is typically done using proprietary software and tightly coupled to the cloud vendor....
by Nickolay Ihalainen | Jan 27, 2021 | Benchmarks, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
I want to present a tool for running a specific version of open source databases in a single instance, replication setups, and Kubernetes. AnyDbVer deploys MySQL/MariaDB/MongoDB/PostgreSQL for testing and experiments. It Could Be Started By… Docker (or Podman)...
by Mike Grayson | Jan 22, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Kubernetes has become an integral part of many architectures and has continued to rise in popularity. Kubernetes is an open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services. One approach to running Kubernetes is Redhat’s OpenShift. OpenShift is...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 20, 2021 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software, Security
What is Node Draining? Anyone who ever worked with containers knows how ephemeral they are. In Kubernetes, not only can containers and pods be replaced, but the nodes as well. Nodes in Kubernetes are VMs, servers, and other entities with computational power where pods...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 13, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
What is Edge Edge is a buzzword that, behind the curtain, means moving private or public clouds closer to the end devices. End devices, such as the Internet of Things (from a doorbell to a VoIP station), become more complex and require more computational power. There...
by Marco Tusa | Jan 11, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
The aim of Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster is to be a special type of controller introduced to simplify complex deployments. The Operator extends the Kubernetes API with custom resources. The Operator solution is using Percona XtraDB Cluster...
by Marco Tusa | Jan 11, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster comes with two different proxies, HAProxy and ProxySQL. While the initial version was based on ProxySQL, in time, Percona opted to set HAProxy as the default Proxy for the operator, without removing ProxySQL. ...
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...
by Sergey Pronin | Dec 7, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Last year AWS was about to ban the “multi-cloud” term in co-branding guides for Partners, removed the ban after community and partners critique, and now embraces multi-cloud strategy. One of the products that AWS announced during its last re:Invent was Amazon EKS...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 23, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Kubernetes operators are meant to simplify the deployment and management of applications. Our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster serves the purpose, but also provides users the flexibility to fine-tune their MySQL and proxy services configuration....
by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Nov 17, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Kubernetes has been a big trend for a while now, particularly well-suited for microservices. Running your main databases on Kubernetes is probably NOT what you are looking for. However, there’s a niche market for them. My colleague Stephen Thorn did a great job...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 13, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Our recent survey showed that many organizations saw unexpected growth around cloud and data. Unexpected bills can become a big problem, especially in such uncertain times. This blog post talks about how Kubernetes scaling capabilities work with Percona Kubernetes...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Nov 12, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source
I wrote about the usage of OpenEBS to manage local storage in Kubernetes in my previous posts: Deploying Percona Kubernetes Operators with OpenEBS Local Storage OpenEBS for the Management of Kubernetes Storage Volumes The primary reason to use the local storage is...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Nov 9, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Open Source
I recently wrote about OpenEBS in regard to local volumes in my post Deploying Percona Kubernetes Operators with OpenEBS Local Storage. And there are also my recent blog posts about Kubernetes, Percona Operators, and storage management problems: Using Volume...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Nov 5, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In my talk on Percona Live (download the presentation), I spoke about how we can use Percona Kubernetes Operators to deploy our own Database-as-Service, based on fully OpenSource components and independent from any particular cloud provider. Today I want to mention an...
