ClusterControl Tips and Tricks: Running ClusterControl on PHP 7
ClusterControl consists of multiple components and one of them is the user interface, a web application running on PHP platform. Some customers had concerns since PHP 5.x was deprecated early this year. This blog post...
How to Use the Roles That Have Changed in MySQL 8.0
Database Security is important to any MySQL setup. Users are the foundation of any system. In terms of database systems, I generally think of them in two distinct groups: Application, service, or program users - basically...
How to Use Encryption to Protect Your MongoDB Data
Database security is a key factor to consider for any application that involves highly sensitive data such as financial and health reports. Data protection can be achieved through encryption at different levels starting from the...
One Security System for Application, Connection Pooling and PostgreSQL – The Case for LDAP
Traditionally, the typical application consists of the following components: In this simple case, a basic setup would suffice: the application uses a simple local authentication mechanism for its users the application uses a simple connection...
Database Security – Backup Encryption In-Transit & At-Rest
Securing your data is one of the most important tasks that we should prioritize. The emergence of regulations that requires security compliance such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, or PHI requires that your data should...
Utilizing Encryption to Strengthen PostgreSQL Database Security
Please Note: Portions of the blog contain references and examples from "ANNOUNCING AVAILABILITY OF POSTGRESQL INSTANCE LEVEL ENCRYPTION" by CyberTec, a company which provides support, consulting and training for PostgreSQL. Organizations deal with different types of...
Operational Reports for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL & MongoDB
The majority of DBA’s perform health checks on their databases every now and then. Usually, it would happen on a daily or weekly basis. We previously discussed why such checks are important and what they...
Database Security Monitoring for MySQL and MariaDB
Data protection is one of the most significant aspects of administering a database. Depending on the organizational structure, whether you are a developer, sysadmin or DBA, if you are managing the production database, you must...
An Overview of Database Operational Reporting in ClusterControl
Operational Reporting provides support to the day-to-day enterprise activity monitoring and control. The purpose of this blog article is to get you more familiar with the operational reports available in ClusterControl. ClusterControl operational reports arm...
Self-Provisioning of User Accounts in PostgreSQL via Unprivileged Anonymous Access
Note from Severalnines: This blog is being published posthumously as Berend Tober passed away on July 16, 2018. We honor his contributions to the PostgreSQL community and wish peace for our friend and guest writer....
Webinar Replay: Disaster Recovery Planning for MySQL & MariaDB
Everyone should have a disaster recovery plan for MySQL & MariaDB! Watch the replay of our webinar with Vinay Joosery, CEO at Severalnines, on Disaster Recovery Planning for MySQL & MariaDB with ClusterControl Organizations need...
New Backup Management and Security Features for MySQL & PostgreSQL: ClusterControl Release 1.6.2
We are excited to announce the 1.6.2 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily automate and manage highly available open source databases in any environment: on-premise or in the...