by Sergey Pronin | Jan 27, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Operators are a software framework that extends Kubernetes API and enables application deployment and management through the control plane. For such complex technologies as databases, Operators play a crucial role by automating deployment and day-to-day operations. At... by Sergey Pronin | Jan 24, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Automating the deployment and management of MongoDB on Kubernetes is an easy journey with Percona Operator for MongoDB. By default, MongoDB is deployed using persistent volume claims (PVC). In the cases where you seek exceptional performance or you don’t have... by Sergey Pronin | Dec 14, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Operator allows you to deploy and manage highly available and production-grade PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes with minimal manual effort. In this blog post, we are going to look deeper into High Availability, Disaster Recovery,... 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 Sergey Pronin | Nov 23, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, Percona Software
There are cases where multiple teams, customers, or applications run in the same Kubernetes cluster. Such an environment is called multi-tenant and requires some preparation and management. Multi-tenant Kubernetes deployment allows you to utilize the economy of scale... by Sergey Pronin | Nov 5, 2021 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Percona Software
TL;DR The table below summarizes the message in this blog post. For more details and reasoning, please continue reading.What What is happening and whenPercona Monitoring and Management v1 End of Life – May 2022Percona Server for MongoDB v4.0Percona Distribution... 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... 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 | Aug 13, 2021 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
More and more companies are adopting Kubernetes. For some it is about being cutting-edge, for some, it is a well-defined strategy and a business transformation. Developers and operations teams all over the world are struggling with moving applications that... 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 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 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... 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 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... 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...