Announcing Vitess 21 # We're delighted to announce the release of Vitess 21 along with version 2.14.0 of the Vitess Kubernetes Operator. Version 21 focuses on enhancing query compatibility, improving cluster management, and expanding VReplication capabilities, with experimental support for atomic distributed transactions and recursive CTEs. Key features include reference table materialization, multi-metric throttler support, and enhanced Online DDL functionality. Backup and restore processes benefit from a new mysqlshell engine, while vexplain now offers detailed execution traces and schema analysis.

Join us for an in-depth webinar where we introduce the new Helm Chart for Galera Cluster for MySQL, now available from Codership (read the blog).

In this session, we’ll guide you through the process of deploying a high-availability MySQL cluster using Galera Cluster on Kubernetes (live demo!). You’ll learn how Helm Charts can simplify Kubernetes application management, including installation and upgrades, while ensuring robust deployment automation.

This webinar is ideal for database administrators, DevOps engineers, and anyone looking to streamline their MySQL high availability deployments on Kubernetes, whether on cloud platforms like Amazon EKS, Google GKE, or on-premises solutions. We’ll cover best practices for configuration, deployment, and scaling of your Galera Cluster, and offer insights on how to …

Codership, the makers of Galera Cluster, are pleased to announce the availability of Helm charts for Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0.39. It is available on our GitHub releases page, for convenience. You are encouraged to send feature requests at our GitHub issues.

Helm charts help you manage your Kubernetes applications, to install and upgrade any Kubernetes applications; think of it as a package manager. Kubernetes helps you automate the deployment, management and scaling of containerized applications.

For this blog post, we will use the example of setting it up at DigitalOcean, but the setup is similar, whether you do this in a …

Percona Operator for MySQL, based on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), provides configuration to expose the ProxySQL, HAProxy, and the PXC instances themselves so that you can use Percona Toolkit to connect to MySQL from these endpoints externally. However, you can also create Kubernetes pods to run Percona Toolkit operations there instead if you do not […]

We're delighted to announce the release of Vitess 20 along with version 2.13.0 of the Vitess Kubernetes Operator. Version 20 focuses on usability and maturity of existing features, and continues to build on the solid foundation of scalability and performance established in previous versions. Our commitment remains steadfast in providing a powerful, scalable, and reliable solution for your database scaling needs. What's New in Vitess 20 # Query Compatibility: enhanced DML support including improved query compatibility, Vindex hints, and extended support for various sharded update and delete operations.

It’s a common scenario to have a Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) server running on Kubernetes and also desire to monitor databases that are running outside the Kubernetes cluster. The Ingress NGINX Controller is one of the most popular choices for managing the inbound traffic to K8s. It acts as a reverse proxy and load […]

Volume Expansion, a feature that became generally available since Kubernetes version 1.24, allows users to increase the capacity of their Persistent Volumes and underlying storage within Kubernetes. There is no need to use clouds’ UI or APIs to do that anymore. In our Operators, we use Stateful Sets – a Kubernetes resource that was designed for […]

Announcing Vitess 19 # We're thrilled to announce the release of Vitess 19, our latest version packed with enhancements aimed at improving scalability, performance, and usability of your database systems. With this release, we continue our commitment to providing a powerful, scalable, and reliable database clustering solution for MySQL. What's New in Vitess 19 # Dropping Support for MySQL 5.7: As Oracle has marked MySQL 5.7 end of life in October 2023, we're also moving forward by dropping support for MySQL 5.

Announcing Vitess 19 # We're thrilled to announce the release of Vitess 19, our latest version packed with enhancements aimed at improving scalability, performance, and usability of your database systems. With this release, we continue our commitment to providing a powerful, scalable, and reliable database clustering solution for MySQL. What's New in Vitess 19 # Dropping Support for MySQL 5.7: As Oracle has marked MySQL 5.7 end of life in October 2023, we're also moving forward by dropping support for MySQL 5.

In our last post, we looked into the lifecycle of applications in Kubernetes. We see that Kubernetes doesn’t handle database backups itself. This is where Kubernetes Operators come into action. They add additional functions to Kubernetes, enabling it to set up, configure, and manage complex applications like databases within a Kubernetes environment for the user.In […]