The DevOps Guide to Database Backups for MySQL and MariaDB
This week we’re happy to announce that our new DevOps Guide to Database Backups for MySQL & MariaDB is now available for download (free)! This guide discusses in detail the two most popular backup...
Receive Email Notifications from ClusterControl
As sysadmins and DBAs, we need to be notified whenever something critical happens to our database. But would it not be nicer if we were informed upfront, and still have time to perform pre-emptive maintenance...
Custom Database Alerts by Combining Metrics with MongoDB
In the previous blog posts, we gave a brief introduction to the ClusterControl Developer Studio and the ClusterControl Domain Specific Language. We covered some useful examples, e.g., how to extract information from the Performance Schema,...
Database Cluster Management: Manual vs Automation
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...
Load 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...
New ClusterControl Subscriptions for Managing MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
We’ve got your databases covered: check out our new pricing plans for ClusterControl, the single console to deploy, monitor and manage your entire database infrastructure. Whether you’re looking to manage standalone instances, need high availability...
Severalnines and WooServers Bring ClusterControl to Web Hosting
New partnership helps start-ups challenge Google, Amazon and Microsoft Stockholm, Sweden and anywhere else in the world - 07 September 2016 - Severalnines, the provider of database automation and management software for open source databases,...
Infrastructure Automation – Deploying ClusterControl and MySQL-Based Systems on AWS using Ansible
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 updated role uses the awesome ClusterControl...
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 should enable you to create new clusters with...
MongoDB Replication Lag Advisor
In the previous blog posts, we gave a brief introduction to the ClusterControl Developer Studio and the ClusterControl Domain Specific Language. We covered some useful examples, e.g., how to extract information from the Performance Schema...
What's New in ClusterControl 1.3.1 Documentation
If you haven’t upgraded to ClusterControl 1.3.1, you should! It’s full of great new features and enhancements. We have lots of documentation to help you get started. Documentation on older versions is also available in...
How to Setup Streaming Replication for High Availability with PostgresSQL 9.0
Master - slave replication PostgreSQL historically did not have support for replication - replication was provided using external tools like Pgpool and Slony. Since these solutions did not come out of the box, most of...