Let’s continue the discovery of the MySQL Database Resource when deploying on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Terraform.

Last week, we saw how to create custom configurations and define user variables. Today we will see how we can define a backup policy and a maintenance window.

Backup Policy

In the oci_mysql_mysql_db_system resource, we will add a new section called backup_policy like this:

backup_policy {
       is_enabled        = "true"
       retention_in_days = "3"
       window_start_time = "01:00-00:00"
       freeform_tags = {"backup_defined_by"="Terraform"}
       pitr_policy {
            is_enabled = "true"
       }
}

This part of code (you can see in a working Terraform architecture sample), enables backup, sets the retention days to 3. It also defines the starting time …

With Terraform OCI provider 4.90.0 (released August 24th, 2022), we have added the possibility to specify the value of editable configuration variables directly from Terraform.

These variables must be defined in a resource of type oci_mysql_mysql_configuration like this:

resource "oci_mysql_mysql_configuration" "mds_mysql_configuration" {
        #Required
        compartment_id = var.compartment_ocid
    shape_name   = var.mysql_shape

         …

The following is a short HOWTO about deployment and use of Benchmark-kit (BMK-kit). The main idea of this kit is to simplify your life in running various MySQL benchmark workloads with less blood and minimal potential errors.

Generally as simple as the following :

$ bash /BMK/sb_exec/sb11-Prepare_50M_8tab-InnoDB.sh 32   # prepare data

$ for users in 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048
do   
  # run OLTP_RW for 5min each load level..
  bash /BMK/sb_exec/sb11-OLTP_RW_50M_8tab-uniform-ps-trx.sh $users 300
  sleep 15
done

the latest public online version of the following HOWTO is always available from here : http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog/posts/mysql-perf-bmk-kit.html

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This fall, from October 16 to 20, the MySQL Summit will be held in La Vegas.

This conference is totally dedicated to your favorite dolphin database and is part of Oracle CloudWorld.

MySQL Summit will bring together a large community of new and expert MySQL users.

Attendees will be able to meet the engineers, product managers and developers who make MySQL the number one open source database in the world!

MySQL Summit will be different from MySQL’s previous appearances at Oracle OpenWorld, for the summit, we, as MySQL Team, users of MySQL… MySQL Community, will have more sessions, dedicated tracks and more !

The call for papers is now open until June 24, 2022.

CfP is extented !

The Call for Papers ends on June 30th !

If you …

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 …

Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow management platform for data engineering pipelines.

Today we will see how we can deploy very easily Apache Airflow on a Compute instance in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using MySQL HeatWave Database Service (MDS).

I am sharing Terraform modules you can use to deploy in your architecture:

Architectures

With the modules you can deploy architectures like these:

with a single MDS instancewith MDS High Availabilitywith HeatWave Cluster

We will use the exact same modules built into a stack for OCI’s Resource Manager. This will allow us to deploy the architecture just in few clicks.

Deployment

We open in a browser the following GitHub repository: …

MySQL Database Service on OCI is all over the tech news with the latest HeatWave ML announcement [1][2][3][4][5].

This article explains how to perform a live migration of your Azure/MySQL to OCI/MySQL.

As Azure allows public connections directly to the database, this is what …

When using cloud native application architectures, Functions have an important role for the business logic without managing any infrastructure. Functions is a serverless platform powered by the Fn Project open source engine.

These Functions are mostly used to create and run different tasks. They can be executed using Fn Project CLI, OCI CLI or a HTTP request.

HTTP requests are useful to invoke Functions from a different service. Usually use to schedule the execution of the function according to a time schedule. Currently, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure does not provide a native mechanism to create time based schedules to execute some jobs like invoking a Function directly …

If like me you like to share some data between all your devices (presentations, keypassX file, pictures, …), you probably use a cloud platform to store all that.

I do like to keep control of such solution, I used ownCloud and now I’m using Nextcloud.

In this article I will show you how to easily deploy Nextcloud on Oracle Cloud (OCI) using MySQL Database Service (MDS) and Object Storage.

The easiest way to deploy solutions on OCI is to use Terraform and Resource Manager’s Stack.

If you already have an account on Oracle …