MySQL

Backing up your databases is an absolutely essential part of running MySQL in production. In this blog post, we will discuss your options when it comes to securing your MySQL backups.

Each MySQL storage engine supports different levels of granularity for their locks .This blog describes what lock granularity is and when it can be useful for you to use as a MySQL DBA.

This blog provides a brief guide on how to start with database automation. It will walk you through the main points and essentials of database automation, such as what can be and what should not be automated, and discusses some useful automation tools.

This blog will act as a guide to database automation. We will explain what it is, and what it can do for you or your business. We will also explain how you can use Severalnines’ flagship product - ClusterControl - to get the best in database automation.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in ClusterControl allows super administrators to provide fine-grained restrictive access based on a role.  This blog guides you in using RBAC, teaching you the differences among available roles and how to use roles and their privileges to achieve a desired level of security.

MariaDB included Audit Plugin from versions 10.0.10 and 5.5.37, and it can be installed in any version from MariaDB 5.5.20. In this blog post, we will show you some best-practice tunings and tips on how to configure audit logging for a MariaDB server. The writing is based on MariaDB 10.5.9, with the latest version of MariaDB Audit Plugin 1.4.4.

In this blog post we describe how to make use of data access privileges and MySQL’s new roles for added MySQL security. Each step is clearly detailed and sample code is provided. It provides best practice advice, such as following the principle of least privilege.

Role-based access controls (RBAC) restrict database resources based on a set of pre-defined groups of privileges. This blog post covers some tips and tricks on using the database role to manage user privileges and as an advanced access control mechanism for MariaDB.

Managing database security is important to protect your valuable data in the database. However, designing a secure infrastructure design can be a daunting task if you are not sure of what to be configured to secure your databases. This blog discusses the best practices to architect a secure environment for MySQL.

Running a Galera Cluster in a hybrid cloud should consist of at least two different geographical sites, connecting hosts in the on-premises or private cloud with the ones in the public cloud. Whether you use unbreakable private cloud or public cloud platforms, Disaster Recovery (DR) is indeed a key component in the business continuity when disaster strikes. In this blog post, we will look into different ways of designing your Galera Clusters for fault tolerance in a hybrid cloud environment.

Database encryption is vital to protect your company and, most importantly, customer data, but you don't need data encryption for all data. It is important to understand the core purpose of data encryption. This blog discusses database encryption focusing on data encryption for better security.

This blog post covers the fundamental aspects of auditing our open-source database systems, especially MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB. This article is targeted towards DevOps engineers who commonly have less experience or exposure in audit compliance best-practice and good data governance when managing the infrastructure primarily for the database systems.

Security is the most important thing to consider protecting the data, to properly secure an open source database requires significant effort and often to implement some security layer. In this blog we explained security in open source databases.

Data breach and data theft is always a major concern, especially in a database world. With a lack of understanding and implementation of your data security, the chances of being hacked or theft is very high. You do not want your customer's passwords and accounts to be stolen, and losing your customers' trust is a big concern and risk to your company and whole organizations. This blog discusses the limits of database access privileges and what you avoid to escape from these dangers amongst hackers and intruders.

MySQL 5.6 has reached its EOL in February 2021. This blog announces ClusterControl no longer offers the option for deploying or importing MySQL 5.6 but will continue to support existing MySQL5.6 users on ClusterControl for bugfixes.

Performance commonly has lower priority in a hybrid cloud, since the focus of having hybrid cloud infrastructure is commonly towards disaster recovery, availability and scalability. In this blog post, we are going to cover some general tips to drive the performance of our applications, workloads and clusters running on a hybrid cloud setup.

In distributed hybrid cloud environments, where database instances and applications are in different datacenters, encryption of in-transit data allows us to protect against network eavesdropping. In this blog, we will explain how to encrypt hybrid cloud mysql database traffic.

Hybrid Cloud vs Full Public Cloud dares how organizations and companies have to decide and design the infrastructure to achieve high availability, scalability but with tightened security. In this blog, we showcase how both differ and how you are going to utilize them whenever you engage with these infrastructure solutions for your business requirements.

A hybrid cloud database is a mix of active database hosts residing on both on-premises and cloud infrastructures in a single operational system. In this blog, we’ll use ClusterControl to deploy a hybrid cloud MySQL database.

Hybrid environments database setups are not uncommon and are usually used for reasons like scalability, flexibility, high availability, disaster recovery. The blog describes how the MySQL replication can be used in mixed, on-prem and cloud environments.

This blog guides you on the things you have to keep in mind when deploying your Percona Server to a Hybrid Cloud. There's no differentiation with deploying on the regular ones, but there are drivers that you have to consider when deploying on a Hybrid Cloud.