Preparing a MySQL or MariaDB Server for Production – Part Two
In the previous blog, we have covered some tips and tricks to prepare a MySQL server for production usage from a system administrator perspective. This blog post is the continuation... Use a Database Backup Tool...
Preparing a MySQL or MariaDB Server for Production – Part One
It is extremely important to install and configure a production MySQL server with the necessary packages and tools to smooth-out the operations in the long run. We have seen many cases where troubleshooting or tuning...
Using Database Backup Advisors to Automate Maintenance Tasks
A disaster usually causes an outage, which can result in system downtime and potential loss of business-critical data. Once a blackout is detected, we trigger our disaster recovery plan to recover from it. But it...
How to Automate Daily DevOps Database Tasks with Chef
Chef is a popular configuration management tool designed to deploy, configure and manage servers. It may not be that easy to use, as you need to be a programmer to manage the configurations in Ruby...
Understanding the Challenges with Databases and DevOps
DevOps has become one of the fastest growing terms in IT for the past five years, and this comes to no surprise. DevOps is a term that is a compound of the words development and...
2019 Open Source Database Trends & Predictions
As we wrap up 2018 and prepare for 2019 we decided it was time to take a moment and pause to think about the changes that have been happening over the past year and what...
Video: Database Troubleshooting Tips for DevOps using ProxySQL
Metrics can be hard to interpret if you don’t know what you are looking at. ClusterControl counters this with automated failure detection and recovery that make sure any failed nodes or clusters are quickly brought...
DevOps Considerations for Production-Ready Database Deployments
MySQL is easy to install and use, it has always been popular with developers and system administrators. On the other hand, deploying a production-ready MySQL environment for a business-critical enterprise workload is a different story....
Database Management for DevOps
Managing databases is an integral part of any DevOps team’s responsibilities. Because DevOps teams have to cover a wide range of tools and technologies they need to move quickly. This means that automating database operations...
The DevOps Guide to Database Management
We’re happy to announce that our new DevOps Guide to Database Management is now available to download for free! This guide discusses the challenges that DevOps teams face when they are required to deploy, manage...
Video: Interview with Riaan Nolan on the Upcoming DevOps Webinar
Tomorrow, July 18th, we will be hosting a webinar, “DevOps Tutorial: How to Automate Your Database Infrastructure” with guest presenter Riaan Nolan and Severalnines Senior Support Engineer Art van Scheppingen. In preparation for the...
Database Automation: Integrating the ClusterControl CLI With Your ChatBot
Last year we launched a ClusterControl integration with chatrooms. We made a Hubot based chatbot, called CCBot, to make your database tier accessible from your company wide chat! The chatbot integrates our CMON backend API...