Become a ClusterControl DBA: Adding Existing Databases and clusters (updated)
In our previous blog post we covered the deployment of four types of clustering/replication: MySQL Galera, MySQL master-slave replication, PostgreSQL replication set and MongoDB replication set. This...
View ArticleClusterControl Tips & Tricks - Transparent Database Failover for your...
ClusterControl is a great tool to deploy and manage databases clusters - if you are into MySQL, you can easily deploy clusters based on both traditional MySQL master-slave replication, Galera Cluster...
View ArticleInfrastructure Automation - Deploying ClusterControl and MySQL-based systems...
We recently made a number of enhancements to the ClusterControl Ansible Role, so it now also supports automatic deployment of MySQL-based systems (MySQL Replication, Galera Cluster, NDB Cluster). The...
View ArticleRegister for Part 1 of our MySQL Query Tuning Trilogy
Remember to join us Tuesday, August 30th for the first part of our upcoming webinar trilogy on MySQL Query Tuning. This first of three in-depth webinar sessions led by Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support...
View ArticleMySQL Query Tuning: Process & Tools - View the Replay & Slides
Many thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s first part of our webinar trilogy on MySQL Query Tuning. This time we looked at the process and tools to consider when tuning MySQL queries. It...
View ArticleHow to set up read-write split in Galera Cluster using ProxySQL
ProxySQL is becoming more and more popular as SQL-aware load balancer for MySQL and MariaDB. In previous blog posts, we covered installation of ProxySQL and its configuration in a MySQL replication...
View ArticleClusterControl 1.3.2 Released with Key MongoDB Features - Sharded...
The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.3.2.This release contains new features, such as deploying MongoDB sharded clusters and scheduling cluster-consistent...
View ArticlePress Release: Severalnines and WooServers bring ClusterControl to web hosting
New partnership helps start-ups challenge Google, Amazon and MicrosoftStockholm, Sweden and anywhere else in the world - 07 September 2016 - Severalnines, the provider of database automation and...
View ArticleLoad balanced MySQL Galera setup - Manual Deployment vs ClusterControl
If you have deployed databases with high availability before, you will know that a deployment does not always go your way, even though you’ve done it a zillion times. You could spend a full day setting...
View ArticleDatabase Sharding - How does it work?
Database systems with large data sets or high throughput applications can challenge the capacity of a single database server. High query rates can exhaust CPU capacity, I/O resources, RAM or even...
View ArticleSign up for our new webinar: 9 DevOps Tips for Going in Production with...
Galera Cluster for MySQL / MariaDB is easy to deploy, but how does it behave under real workload, scale, and during long term operation? Proof of concepts and lab tests usually work great for Galera,...
View ArticlePlanets9s - Download our new ‘Database Sharding with MySQL Fabric’ whitepaper
Welcome to this week’s Planets9s, covering all the latest resources and technologies we create around automation and management of open source database infrastructures.Download our new whitepaper:...
View ArticleDatabase Security - MySQL Upgrade Instructions for Zero-day Exploit
You must have heard about the CVE-2016-6662, the recent zero-day exploit exposed in most of MySQL and its variants. The vulnerability flaw can be exploited by a remote attacker to inject malicious...
View ArticleTwo Database Sharding Tools for MySQL
In a previous blog post we discussed several approaches to sharding. The most flexible one, sharding using metadata, is also the most complex one to implement. You need to design the meta-database, and...
View ArticleWatch the replay: MySQL Query Tuning Part 2 - Indexing and EXPLAIN
We’ve just completed Part 2 of our webinar trilogy on MySQL Query Tuning this week and if you didn’t get the chance to join us for the live sessions (or would like to watch them again), the recording...
View ArticlePlanets9s - 9 DevOps Tips for MySQL / MariaDB Galera Cluster, MySQL Query...
Welcome to this week’s Planets9s, covering all the latest resources and technologies we create around automation and management of open source database infrastructures.New webinar: 9 DevOps Tips for...
View ArticleClusterControl Tips & Tricks - Custom graphs to monitor your MySQL, MariaDB,...
Graphs are important, as they’re your window onto your monitored systems. ClusterControl comes with a predefined set of graphs for you to analyze, these are built on top of the metric sampling done by...
View Article9 DevOps Tips for going in production with MySQL / MariaDB Galera Cluster:...
Many thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s webinar on ‘9 DevOps Tips for going in production with MySQL / MariaDB Galera Cluster’.The replay and slides are now available to watch and read...
View ArticleDatabase Cluster Management - Manual vs Automation via ClusterControl
In a previous blog, we looked at the efficiency gains when automating the deployment of a Galera cluster for MySQL. In this post, we are going to dive into cluster management. Should we manage our...
View ArticleSchema changes in Galera cluster for MySQL and MariaDB - how to avoid RSU locks
Working as MySQL DBA, you will often have to deal with schema changes. Changes to production databases are not popular among DBAs, but they are necessary when applications add new requirements on the...
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