by Sergey Pronin | Nov 4, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
Kata containers are containers that use hardware virtualization technologies for workload isolation almost without performance penalties. Top use cases are untrusted workloads and tenant isolation (for example in a shared Kubernetes cluster). This blog post describes...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 22, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
One of the most exciting storage-related features in Kubernetes is Volume snapshot and clone. It allows you to take a snapshot of data volume and later to clone into a new volume, which opens a variety of possibilities like instant backups or testing upgrades. This...
by Stephen Thorn | Oct 8, 2020 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
As a Solutions Engineer at Percona, one of my responsibilities is to support our customers as they investigate new and emerging technologies. This affords me the opportunity to speak to many current and new customers who partner with Percona. The topic of Kubernetes...
by David Quilty | Sep 15, 2020 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software, Webinars
In this webinar, we will explore the Percona Kubernetes Operator for the Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) database. Kubernetes is a widely-deployed orchestration platform for container management. Recently, more and more companies are moving towards containerized...
by David Quilty | Sep 8, 2020 | Open Source, Webinars
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 and it helps to reduce toil a lot, yet it is typically done using proprietary software and tightly coupled to the...
by Rachel Pescador | Aug 19, 2020 | Database Trends, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
Following our announcement of Percona Joining the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program, we are pleased to announce the addition of Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB on the VMware Tanzu Platform after attaining Partner Ready validation....
by Tomislav Plavcic | Aug 11, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
In Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster versions prior to 1.5.0, there were two methods for upgrading PXC clusters, and both of these use built-in StatefulSet update strategies. The first one is manual (OnDelete update strategy) and the second...
by Rick Golba | Jul 21, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
On July 21, 2020, Percona delivered an updated version of our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) focused on easing deployment and operations management of a clustered MySQL environment. Included in the Percona Distribution for MySQL, our...
by Sami Ahlroos | Jul 20, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster can send backups to Amazon S3 or S3-compatible storage. And every now and then at Support, we are asked how to send backups to Google Cloud Storage. Google Cloud Storage offers an “interoperability mode” which...
by Michal Nosek | Jul 20, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Every database environment should require a robust backup strategy as its a fundamental requirement to running a successful and robust database. No matter the size of the database, the function of the application, or how technologically advanced a company is, backups...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Jul 9, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
You got yourself a Kubernetes cluster and are now testing our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster. Everything is working great and you decided that you want to increase the number of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) pods from the default 3, to let’s...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Jul 3, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster(PXC) comes with ProxySQL as part of the deal. And to be honest, the behavior of ProxySQL is pretty much the same as in a regular non-k8s deployment of it. So why bother to write a blog about it? Because what...
by Stephen Thorn | May 22, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Database backups are a fundamental requirement in almost every implementation, no matter the size of the company or the nature of the application. Taking a backup should be a simple task that can be automated to ensure it’s done consistently and on schedule....
by Stephen Thorn | May 7, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
As a Solutions Engineer at Percona, one of my responsibilities is to support our customers as they investigate new and emerging technologies. This affords me the opportunity to speak to many current and new customers who partner with Percona. The topic of Kubernetes...
by Rick Golba | Apr 29, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
April 29, 2020 – Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0. This release, based on Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 and Galera 4, brings together the best features of these and other products to deliver an open-source high availability MySQL...
by David Quilty | Apr 27, 2020 | MySQL, Webinars
During this joint webinar our speakers, Alkin Tezuysal, Technical Expert at Percona and Sugu Sougoumarane, Co-Founder and CTO at PlanetScale, will provide attendees with hands-on experience using Vitess using Kubernetes. They will start by providing a quick overview...
by Tyler Duzan | Mar 18, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona has been investing in building and releasing Operators for Kubernetes to run traditional databases in a cloud-native fashion. The first two Kubernetes operators were for Percona Server for MongoDB and Percona XtraDB Cluster, chosen because they both feature...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 7, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
As our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster gains in popularity, I am getting questions about its performance and how to measure it properly. Sysbench is the most popular tool for database performance evaluation, so let’s review how we can use it...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Jan 21, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Being that Amazon is one of the most-used cloud vendors, it is only natural that one may ask “How can Kubernetes be used in AWS?”. And the answer is – not that different than with other cloud vendors. What one needs is two things (and this applies...
by Alkin Tezuysal | Jan 14, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, I’d like to share some experiences in setting up a Vitess environment for local tests and development on OSX/macOS. As previously, I have presented How To Test and Deploy Kubernetes Operator for MySQL(PXC) in OSX/macOS, this time I will be showing...
