by Sergey Pronin | Mar 1, 2023 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Public cloud spending is slowing down. Quarter-over-quarter growth is no longer hitting 30% gains for AWS, Google, and Microsoft. This is businesses’ response to tough and uncertain macroeconomic conditions, where organizations scrutinize their public cloud... by Sergey Pronin | Feb 10, 2023 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Previously, deploying and maintaining a database usually meant many burdensome chores and repetitive tasks to ensure proper functioning. In the cloud era, however, developers and operation engineers started fully embracing automation tools making their job... by Sergey Pronin | Jan 24, 2023 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Platform, Percona Software
Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. We see the growing adoption of our Percona Kubernetes Operators and the demand to migrate workloads to the cloud-native platform. Our Operators provide built-in backup and restore capabilities, but some users are... by Sergey Pronin | Jan 17, 2023 | Percona Platform, Percona Software, Security
by Sergey Pronin | Dec 15, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
Operators hide the complexity of the application and Kubernetes. Instead of dealing with Pods, StatefulSets, tons of YAML manifests, and various configuration files, the user talks to Kubernetes API to provision a ready-to-use application. An Operator automatically... by Sergey Pronin | Nov 22, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona loves and embraces Kubernetes. Percona Operators have found their way into the hearts and minds of developers and operations teams. And with growing adoption, we get a lot of valuable feedback from the community and our support organization. Two of the most... by Sergey Pronin | Nov 10, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
This blog post continues the series of comparisons of solutions to run databases on Kubernetes. Previous blog posts: Run MongoDB in Kubernetes: Solutions, Pros and Cons Run PostgreSQL in Kubernetes: Solutions, Pros and ConsThe initial release of MySQL was in 1995 and... by Sergey Pronin | Oct 13, 2022 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL’s initial release was in 1996 when cloud-native was not even a term. Right now it is the second most popular relational open source database according to DB-engines. With its popularity growth and the rising trend of Kubernetes, it is not a surprise... by Sergey Pronin | Sep 23, 2022 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Platform, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
September was and is an extremely fruitful month (especially for the black-hat hackers) for news about data leaks and breaches: Uber suffers computer system breach, alerts authorities GTA 6 source code and videos leaked after Rockstar Games hack Revolut breach:... by Sergey Pronin | Sep 16, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Operator for MongoDB version 1.13 was recently released and it comes with various ravishing features. In this blog post, we are going to look under the hood and see what are the practical use cases for these improvements. Cluster-wide deployment There are two... by Sergey Pronin | Sep 6, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) comes with Database as a Service (DBaaS) functionality that allows you to deploy highly-available databases through a simple user interface and API. PMM DBaaS is sort of unique for various reasons: It is fully open source and... by Sergey Pronin | Aug 22, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
We at Percona are committed to delivering software that enables users to run databases anywhere. Our Operators for databases and Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Database as a Service (DBaaS) confirm our commitment to Kubernetes. Kubernetes is not only the most... by Sergey Pronin | Jul 11, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
There are two Operators at Percona to deploy MySQL on Kubernetes: one is based on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), production-ready and widely adopted another is based on Percona Server for MySQL, now in tech preview and not recommended for production yetWe wrote a blog... by Sergey Pronin | Jun 22, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Over the course of the years, we see the growing interest in running databases and stateful workloads in Kubernetes. With Container Storage Interfaces (CSI) maturing and more and more Operators appearing, running stateful workloads in your favorite platform is not... by Sergey Pronin | May 16, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Our goal is to have a Rocket.Chat deployment which uses highly available Percona Server for MongoDB cluster as the backend database and it all runs on Kubernetes. To get there, we will do the following: Start a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster across multiple... by Sergey Pronin | May 12, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Percona Operator for MongoDB supports multi-cluster or cross-site replication deployments since version 1.10. This functionality is extremely useful if you want to have a disaster recovery deployment or perform a migration from or to a MongoDB cluster running in... by Sergey Pronin | Apr 18, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Ingress is a resource that is commonly used to expose HTTP(s) services outside of Kubernetes. To have ingress support, you will need an Ingress Controller, which in a nutshell is a proxy. SREs and DevOps love ingress as it provides developers with a self-service to... 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 | Mar 7, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Deploying MongoDB on Kubernetes has never been simpler with Percona Operator for MongoDB. It provides you with an enterprise-ready MongoDB cluster with no manual burden. In addition to that, you also get automated day-to-day operations – scaling, backups,... by Sergey Pronin | Mar 4, 2022 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
My father always used the expression, “sometimes the juice ain’t worth the squeeze”. What he meant by it was, “what you put into something better be worth what you get out of it”. Why do I bring this up? Well…we’ve got...