by Sergey Pronin | Jul 14, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This blog was originally published in 2021 and updated in 2025. Running PostgreSQL in production means balancing high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability without adding unnecessary complexity. Kubernetes helps by providing a consistent way to orchestrate...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 1, 2025 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
This blog was originally published in August 2022 and was updated in April 2025. In this blog, we’ll examine the increasingly popular practice of running MongoDB on Kubernetes. We will explore various solutions and approaches to this setup, from direct deployments as...
by Sveta Smirnova | Jun 12, 2024 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona Toolkit 3.6.0 has been released on June 12, 2024. The most important updates in this version are: The possibility to resume pt-online-schema-change if it is interrupted. eu-stack support in pt-pmp that significantly improves this tool’s performance and...
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 | Mar 15, 2022 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Avoid vendor lock-in, provide a private Database-as-a-Service for internal teams, quickly deploy-test-destroy databases with CI/CD pipeline – these are some of the most common use cases for running databases on Kubernetes with operators. Percona Operator for...
by Sergey Pronin | Dec 8, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona in 2021 is heavily invested in making the PostgreSQL ecosystem better and contributing to it from different angles: We have created pg_stat_monitor – query performance monitoring tool for PostgreSQL Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Operator was...
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...
