How we could fix a nasty out of space issue leveraging the flexibility of Percona MySQL operator (PMO)
When planning a database deployment, one of the most challenging factors to consider is the amount of space we need to dedicate for Data on disk.
This is even more cumbersome when working on bare metal. Given it is definitely more difficult to add space when using this kind of solution in respect to the cloud.
This is it, when using cloud storage like EBS or similar it is normally easy(er) to extend volumes, which gives us the luxury to plan the space to allocate for data with a good grade of relaxation.
Is this also true when using a solution based on Kubernetes like Percona Operator for MySQL? Well it depends on where you run it, however if the platform you choose supports the option to extend volumes K8s per se is giving you the possibility to do so as well.
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