Join Percona’s Senior Operations Engineer, Daniel Kowalewski as he presents Deploying MySQL in Production on Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

Register Now  MySQL is famous for being something you can install and get going in less than five minutes in terms of development. But normally you want to run MySQL in production, and at scale. This requires some planning and knowledge. So why not learn the best practices around installation, configuration, deployment and backup?

This webinar is a soup-to-nuts talk that will have you going from zero to hero in no time. It includes discussion …

January 5, 2015 By Severalnines

Cloud storage is hot. Dropbox, Apple iCloud, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive and Amazon Cloud Drive all offer cloud sharing platforms where you can store documents in the cloud and access them from all your devices. For enterprises who require full control, ownCloud is an open source solution that allows files to be stored on-premises and/or a backend cloud. 

In this blog post, we’ll show you how to deploy a high availability setup using ownCloud Community Edition. We will need to set up redundancy in each of the following layers:

• file storage
• web server
• database server
• load balancer

We will use five servers. ownCloud will run on three separate servers with MySQL Galera Cluster 5.6 and GlusterFS running on RHEL 6.5 64bit. ownCloud supports GlusterFS as primary storage. ClusterControl will be co-located …

July 22, 2014 By Severalnines

We just wanted to make it official: Severalnines ClusterControl now supports MariaDB 10!

As most of you know will know by now, MariaDB 10 is the newest and most advanced version of the popular MariaDB relational database system. Whilst remaining application-compatible with the MySQL database, it adds many new capabilities to address the most challenging web and enterprise application use cases. Cluster deployments would be based on MariaDB Galera Cluster 10, which is a complete merge of MariaDB 10.0.12 and Galera Cluster. 

ClusterControl for MariaDB Clusters

ClusterControl gives you the power to deploy, manage, monitor and scale entire MariaDB Galera clusters efficiently and …

May 23, 2014 By Severalnines

If you need to deploy a database cluster behind your corporate firewall, on servers with no internet access, then this blog is for you. Most of the installation tutorials out there require servers to have an internet connection, and that would not work very well with companies under strict policies and compliance guidelines. 

Our online Galera Configurator supports deployment without Internet connection for Percona XtraDB Cluster. You would need to prepare a minimum of four hosts (three DB nodes and one management node), generate a Deployment Package from the Configurator and copy it to the ClusterControl host. In this post, we will show you how to deploy Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5 in an environment without internet connection on CentOS 6.5 (installed with minimal installation). Our setup is …

January 6, 2014 By Severalnines

MySQL Cluster is a popular backend for FreeRADIUS, as it provides a scalable backend to store user and accounting data. However, there are situations when the backend database becomes a centralized datastore for additional applications and services, and needs to take a more general-purpose role. NDB usually works very well for FreeRADIUS data, but for wider use cases and reporting type applications, InnoDB can be a better storage engine. For users who need to keep their data in InnoDB and still benefit from a highly available clustered datastore, Galera Cluster can be an appropriate alternative.

In this post, we will show you how to deploy FreeRadius both with MySQL Cluster and Galera Cluster to store user and accounting data. All servers are running CentOS 6.4 64bit.

FreeRadius Deployment with Galera

We will deploy a two-node FreeRadius cluster …

December 4, 2013 By Severalnines

As OpenStack deployments mature from evaluation/development to production environments supporting apps and services, high-availability becomes a key requirement. In a previous post, we showed you how to cluster the database backend - which is central to the operation of OpenStack. In that setup, you would have two controllers, while placing a 3-node Galera cluster on separate hosts. Now, it can be quite a leap to go from one VM with all services running on it, to a fully distributed setup with 5 VMs. The good news is that you can have a highly available setup starting with just 3 VMs.

In this post, we are going to show you how to cluster OpenStack Havana in a minimal node setup with 2 controllers and one compute node. Our controllers will be running all OpenStack services, as well as clustered RabbitMQ …

June 17, 2013 By Severalnines

Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform built on Zend PHP and MySQL. It is widely adopted by online retailers with some 150,000 sites known to use it. Single server setups are easy to set up, but if your store is a huge success, then you probably need to think about clustering your environment with multiple servers. Clustering is done at the web, database and file-system level, as all web nodes need access to catalog images. 

This post is similar to our previous posts on scaling Drupal and WordPress performance, and focuses on how to scale Magento on multiple servers. The software used is Magento version 1.7.0.2 , nginx, HAProxy, MySQL Galera …

April 26, 2013 By Severalnines

This post shows you how to move from a single instance Drupal/MySQL to a multi-server environment. A well designed multi-server deployment not only allows Drupal to scale, but will also enhance redundancy by removing single points of failure. Components used are Apache, PHP, csync2, lsyncd, Keepalived, HAproxy, MySQL Galera Cluster and ClusterControl.

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Devopsdays Mountainview sold out in a short 3 hours .. but there's other events that will breath devops this summer.
DrupalCon in Munich will be one of them ..

Some of you might have noticed that I`m cochairing the devops track for DrupalCon Munich,
The CFP is open till the 11th of this month and we are still actively looking for speakers.

We're trying to bridge the gap between drupal developers and the people that put their code to production, at scale.
But also enhancing the knowledge of infrastructure components Drupal developers depend on.

We're looking for talks both on culture (both success stories and failure) , automation,
specifically looking for people talking about drupal deployments , eg using tools like Capistrano, Chef, Puppet,
We want to hear where Continuous Integration fits in your deployment , do you do Continuous Delivery of a drupal environment.
And how do you …

Today's topic is deployment. It's called one-click deployment for a reason: Developers are lazy.
It's hard to do less than clicking on one button, so that's our goal.

With the growing need for lower time-to-market and faster response to user feedback it is inevitable to not be limited by technical factors (there are enough other obstacles already). The focus lies on reproducible results.

So, what do we need? Actually, not much. Disregarding the tools and practices that build the foundation of agile software development, you only need a central build server. But you've already got that one covered, right?

If you don't, you should get one. It's a huge help to discover errors quickly and be alerted instantly. This usually leads to a shorter time frame until a fix is done. Tests are run continuously and new parts are integrated into the whole code base.