This week is KubeCon in Detroit, and in preparation for attending I have been polishing up my Kubernetes skills. This big rush to put software in containers and have Kubernetes run everything is getting a lot of push in the industry. Many software applications run perfectly well in ready-made packages from a container made for ephemeral consumption much like a can of Campell’s tomato soup. But generally, relational databases like permanence, stability, and a consistent presence. Databases like to run to stock caches and build statistics, so they are not great at running well after being started. But this article is the first in a series for ‘us’ database folks to learn how to keep our databases happy in a containerized world.

With the trip to the Motor City on my calendar, it was time to answer the question “What is the minimalist …

As we have Kubernetes installed in part one (see Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 1: Installation), now we will install Percona Server for MySQL Operator into the running cluster.

I will copy some ideas from Peter’s Minukube tutorial (see Exploring MySQL on Kubernetes with Minkube).

In this case, I will use not Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator but a regular Percona Server for MySQL with Asynchronous replication.

We have recently released version 0.3.0 and it is still in the technical preview state, so we are actively looking for more feedback!

If we go with all …

In part one and part two of this series, we introduced the different ways to manage MySQL configurations and precedence when using the Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) object and ConfigMap. In this post, we will see the precedence when secrets are used for MySQL configurations in Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster.

CASE-4: Secret with name cluster1-pxc and ConfigMap with name cluster1-pxc but without configuration in PXC object

When the MySQL configuration is present in the ConfigMap and secret but not in the PXC …

In part one of this series, we introduced the different ways to manage MySQL configurations. In this post, we will walk through different possibilities and the changes happening while modifying MySQL configurations with the operator.

Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator based on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) provides three ways for managing MySQL, but the question is, what is the precedence among options? We will walk through several cases of using MySQL configs. For the sake of simplicity, we will play with the values of the Galera cache to see the effects.

configuration: |
   [mysqld] …

Introduction/FAQ

Question: I need to run a production-grade open source MySQL DB.

Answer: Percona to the rescue! Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is an open source enterprise MySQL solution that helps you to ensure data availability for your applications while improving security and simplifying the development of new applications in the most demanding public, private, and hybrid cloud environments

Question: I forgot to mention that I need to run it on Kubernetes.

Answer: Percona to the rescue again! Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator based on Percona XtraDB Cluster contains everything you need to quickly and consistently deploy and scale Percona XtraDB …

In this blog post, I will show how to install the MySQL-compatible Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) Operator on Minikube as well as perform some basic actions.   I am by no means a Kubernetes expert and this blog post is the result of my explorations preparing for a local MySQL Meetup, so if you have some comments or suggestions on how to do things better, please comment away!

For my experiments, I used Minikube version 1.26 with the docker driver in the most basic installation on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, though it should work with other combinations, too. You also can find the official “Running Percona XtraDB Cluster on Minikube” documentation …

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 yet

We wrote a blog post in the past explaining the thought process and reasoning behind creating the new Operator for MySQL. The goal for us is to provide production-grade solutions to run MySQL in Kubernetes and support various replication configurations:

• Synchronous replication
  …

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During previous months, I’ve had some time to satisfy my curiosity about databases in containers and I started to test a little bit MySQL in Kubernetes.
This is how it all began…

In January I had the chance to be trained on Kubernetes attending the Docker and Kubernetes essentials Workshop of dbi services. So I decided to prepare a session on this topic at our internal dbi xChange event. And as if by magic, at the same time, a customer asked for our support to migrate a MySQL database to their Kubernetes cluster.

In general, I would like to raise two points before going into …

During previous months, I’ve had some time to satisfy my curiosity about databases in containers and I started to test a little bit MySQL in Kubernetes.
This is how it all began…

In January I had the chance to be trained on Kubernetes attending the Docker and Kubernetes essentials Workshop of dbi services. So I decided to prepare a session on this topic at our internal dbi xChange event. And as if by magic, at the same time, a customer asked for our support to migrate a MySQL database to their Kubernetes cluster.

In general, I would like to raise two points before going into …