by Gautam | Mar 27, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Feb 27, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
The transition to Apple Silicon (the M1, M2 ARM-based CPUs) has been great for macOS fans in many ways, but it’s added some friction when you want to run containers locally for testing or development. The good news is we’ve got you covered with ARM64 container images...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Feb 24, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
We’re pleased to announce that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.4 adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and compatible Linux distributions. With the 6.0.4 release you can now run Percona Server for MongoDB 6 on RHEL 7, 8, and 9, as well as Debian 10 and 11,...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Nov 25, 2022 | Cloud, Hardware and Storage, MongoDB, Percona Software
One of the main features that I like about the Percona Operator for MongoDB is the integration with Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) tool and the ability to backup/restore the database without manual intervention. The Operator allows backing up the DB to S3-compatible...
by Mukesh Kumar | Oct 7, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In this blog post, we will discuss deploying a Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) replica set with Ansible*. Ansible is a popular automation tool that can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced tasks like continuous deployments or zero...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Sep 21, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB is a cross-platform, document-oriented NoSQL database. It has been developed as an answer to the growing need for easy-to-use yet very performant, scalable, and content-agnostic storage. MongoDB has been widely adopted by engineers across application...
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 Santosh Varma | Jul 7, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
We all know how important it is to have a proper index in the database in order to do its job effectively. We have been using indexing in our daily life to import daily tasks, without index all tasks would be completed but in a relatively long time. The basic working...
by Corrado Pandiani | Jun 29, 2022 | Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
by Igor Solodovnikov | Jun 24, 2022 | Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
Both Percona Server for MongoDB and vanilla MongoDB packages do not contain debug symbols by default. This is because the debug symbols package can be up to a 3GB download depending on the version and target platform. Fortunately, you only need debug symbols in those...
by Mukesh Kumar | Jun 3, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In this blog post, we will discuss how can we migrate from a replica set to sharded cluster. Before moving to migration let me briefly explain Replication and Sharding and why do we need to shard a replica Set. Replication: It creates additional copies of data and...
by Oleksandr Miroshnychenko | Oct 19, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Following this series of blog posts started by Evgeniy Patlan: How to Manually Build Percona Server for MySQL RPM Packages How to Build Percona Server for MySQL From Sources we’ll show you how to build Percona Server for MongoDB for various operating systems¹...
by Lenz Grimmer | Aug 17, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
We’re happy to announce the first release candidate of Percona Server for MongoDB version 5.0.2 (PSMDB). It is now available for download from the Percona website and via the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.2 is an enhanced,...
by Kimberly Wilkins | Jul 5, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
If you love using MongoDB databases, you’ll want to tune in to this live-stream event ‘Percona and Friends React to MongoDB live’ at 11:00 AM EDT on July 15. Watch or listen as industry experts from Percona, Southbank Software, and Qarbine respond to MongoDB’s...
by Rachel Pescador | Jun 21, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Services, Percona Software
In just under a month, MongoDB will host its annual event, MongoDB.live. And just over a month ago, Percona held its annual event Percona Live. Despite the naming convention similarity, these events couldn’t be more different! Percona Live was an open source database...
by Jean da Silva | Jun 2, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
One of the main topics we have today is surely about security. On a daily routine, this can pass unnoticed, but sooner or later, we have to implement or work on some security guidelines. And today, we are going to discuss one of them, which is Field Encryption. ...
by Rafael Galinari | May 19, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This is a very straightforward article written with the intention to show you how easy it is to refresh your Test/Dev environments with PROD data, using Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM). This article will cover all the steps from the PBM configuration until the...
by Michael Patrick | Apr 9, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Recently, I needed to set up a Proof of Concept (POC) and wanted to do it on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). After documenting the process, it seemed it might be helpful for others looking for the most basic guide possible to get a Mongo server up and running on GCP. ...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Mar 30, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
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...
