Monitoring your database schema changes in MySQL/MariaDB provides a huge help as it saves time analyzing your database growth, table definition changes, data size, index size, or row size. For MySQL/MariaDB, running a query referencing...

Puppet is open source software for configuration management and deployment. Founded in 2005, it’s multi-platform and even has its own declarative language for configuration. The tasks related to administration and maintenance of PostgreSQL (or other...

Database system perform best when they are integrated with some well defined approaches that facilitate both the read and write throughput  operations. MongoDB went the extra mile by embracing replication and sharding with the aim...

Deployment and management your database environment can be a tedious task. It's very common nowadays to use tools for automating your deployment to make these tasks easier. Automation solutions such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or...

In the previous blog, we showed you how to set up our machine with the Puppet and then install and configure MongoDB. Since we are going to configure a number of nodes or rather machines...

Database clustering often involves configuring and maintaining a number of servers and instances, all with a collective purpose. By this we mean you can have different database servers at different hosts which are serving the...

In the previous blog post, we showed you some basic steps to deploy and manage a standalone MySQL server as well as MySQL Replication setup using the MySQL Puppet module. In this second installation, we...

Puppet is an open source systems management tool for centralizing and automating configuration management. Automation tools help to minimize manual and repetitive tasks, and can save a great deal of time. Puppet works by default...

ClusterControl integrates with a number of popular third-party tools for deployment and monitoring - from Docker images to Puppet modules, Chef cookbooks, Vagrant images, and Nagios/Zabbix/Syslog/PagerDuty plugins. In this blog, we’ll have a quick look...

Thanks to everyone who attended and participated in last week’s webinar on ‘A DevOps Guide to Database Infrastructure Automation for eCommerce’. If you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again &...

If you are automating your infrastructure using Puppet, then this blog is for you. We are glad to announce the availability of a Puppet module for ClusterControl. For those using Chef, we already published Chef cookbooks for...