In my previous post I showed you how to setup Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on Docker. This time I will show you how to setup Percona ClusterControl and add the existing Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 that we’ve managed to setup from the previous post.

Let us note the following details about our existing containers:

• 172.17.0.2 dockerpxc1
• 172.17.0.3 dockerpxc2
• 172.17.0.4 dockerpxc3
• 172.17.0.5 dockerccui-test

A quick tip for everyone who has followed my previous blog on setting up Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on Docker: I did not …

There are a couple of posts about setting up Percona XtraDB Cluster on Vagrant and Percona Server on MySQL Sandbox – those are two of the top tools used by the Percona Support team for testing and bug processing among other things.

In this post, however, I will show you how to use Docker with Percona Server on Ubuntu 12.04.

As per Docker’s official site:

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.

Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run …

This is the first in a series of posts highlighting a few of the seldom-used but still handy Percona Toolkit tools.

Have you ever had a problem understanding the EXPLAIN statement output? And are you the type of person who would rather use the command line than a GUI application? Then I would recommend that you use Percona’s pt-visual-explain toolkit. This is one of many Percona Toolkit tools that is useful for those who want to have a different view and an easier time understanding the EXPLAIN output aside from the usual table and vertical views.

As described in the documentation – http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.2/pt-visual-explain.html#description

“pt-visual-explain reverse-engineers …