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 provisions all the required resources and exposes the application. Though, there is always a risk that the user would want to do something manual that can negatively affect the application and the Operator logic.

In this blog post, we will explain how to limit access scope for the user to avoid manual changes for database clusters deployed with Percona Operators. To do so, we will rely on Kubernetes Role-based Access Control (RBAC).

The goal

We are going to have two roles: …

September 17, 2014 By Severalnines

The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.2.8. This release contains key new features along with performance improvements and bug fixes. We have outlined some of the key new features below. 

Highlights of ClusterControl 1.2.8 include:

• YUM/APT repositories for ClusterControl
• Deployment and scaling of single-node MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB
• Alerts and incident tracking with PagerDuty 
• Unified Event Viewer
• New flexible alarms/email notification system
• Audit logging - Administrator activity tracking
• Global MySQL User Management
• New default dashboards for MySQL/MariaDB
• Puppet Module …

April 22, 2014 By Severalnines

Join our upcoming webinar New Features Webinar on ClusterControl 1.2.6 - May 13th 2014 with live demo. Click on following banner to register:

The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.2.6. This release contains key new features along with performance improvements and bug fixes. We have outlined some of the key features below. 

Highlights of ClusterControl 1.2.6 include:

• Centralized Authentication using LDAP or Active Directory
• Role-Based Access Control 
• OpenStack: Galera Deployment Automation
• Hybrid setups with Galera and Asynchronous MySQL Replication
• Manage multiple Galera …