Most of the installation steps available on the Internet cover the standard online installation, presuming the database hosts are having an active internet connection to the package repositories and satisfy all dependencies. However, installation steps...

ClusterControl consists of a number of components and one of the most important ones is the ClusterControl UI. This is the web application through which the user interacts with other backend ClusterControl components like controller,...

There are several ways to get ClusterControl installed on your database infrastructure, as described in the ClusterControl Getting Started page. One simple way is to use an installation script, install-cc.sh. This script automates the whole...

MySQL and PostgreSQL - two open source relational database management systems, each with their own set of fans. For years, MySQL has been a source of fun and amusement in the PostgreSQL community - default,...

  Drupal’s modular setup allows for different datastores to be integrated as modules, this allows sites to store different types of Drupal data into MongoDB. You can choose to store Drupal’s cache, session, watchdog, block...

As your needs change, and you start managing more database instances or larger centralized backups with ClusterControl, you might find that your controller host is over-utilized. Or you might need to migrate your infrastructure to...

We are excited to announce the availability of YUM/APT repositories for ClusterControl, making new releases of ClusterControl  easily accessible using YUM or APT package managers. The repo is found at http://repo.severalnines.com, with instructions provided on the...

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...

So, your development project has been humming along nicely on MongoDB, until it was time to deploy the application. That's when you called your operations person and things got uncomfortable. NoSQL, document database, collections, replica...

As you might already know, ClusterControl runs on a dedicated host. Failure of the ClusterControl host (or the datacenter it is running in) does not affect your running database cluster, however you cannot manage the cluster during...

Good news for AWS users! We are now available on AWS Marketplace. This allows you, with a single click of a button, to deploy ClusterControl in just a few minutes. Once ClusterControl is deployed, you...

With ClusterControl gaining in popularity, we are seeing users coming in from different angles. Some users are deploying their database cluster using our Online Configurators, others are looking to install ClusterControl to manage an existing...